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Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 · Part B · Chapter 22

Section 646 Power to apply to Court to determine questions or exercise powers

(1)
The liquidator or any contributory or creditor may apply to the Court to determine any question arising in the winding-up of a company, to exercise, as respects the enforcing of calls or any other matter, all or any of the powers which the Court might exercise if the company were being wound up by the Court.
(2)
If the Court is satisfied that the determination of the question or the required exercise of power is just and beneficial, it may give effect wholly or partially to the application on such terms and conditions as it deems fit, or make such other order as the case may require.
(3)
A copy of an order made under this section staying the proceedings in the winding-up, shall forthwith be forwarded by the company, or otherwise as may be prescribed, to the Commission, which shall make a minute of the order in its books relating to the company.
Cite as: Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020, section 646

What this section means

From the guide: Voluntary winding up under CAMA 2020: members’ and creditors’ winding up

Sections 620 to 653 explain when a company can wind itself up, the declaration of solvency, and how members’ and creditors’ winding up differ.

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Source: Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 (Act No. 3 of 2020), Official Gazette No. 124, Lagos, 10 August 2020. General information, not legal advice.