297.
—(1) The company shall, and the creditors may at their respective meetings, nominate a person to be liquidator for the purpose of winding up the affairs and distributing the assets of the company, and if the creditors and the company nominate different persons the person nominated by the creditors shall be liquidator, and if no person is nominated by the creditors the person nominated by the company shall be liquidator.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where different persons are nominated any director, member or creditor may, within 7 days after the date on which the nomination was made by the creditors, apply to the Court for an order directing that the person nominated as liquidator by the company shall be liquidator instead of or jointly with the person nominated by the creditors.
(3) The committee of inspection, or if there is no such committee the creditors, may fix the remuneration to be paid to the liquidator.
(4) On the appointment of a liquidator all the powers of the directors shall cease, except so far as the committee of inspection, or, if there is no such committee, the creditors, approve the continuance thereof.
(5) If a liquidator, other than a liquidator appointed by or by the direction of the Court, dies, resigns or otherwise vacates the office, the creditors may fill the vacancy and for the purpose of so doing a meeting of the creditors may be summoned by any 2 of their number.
[UK, 1948, ss. 294, 296, 297; Aust., 1961, s. 261]