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Paragraph 9

The following provision with respect to meetings of a company’s creditors, contributories or members—

(a)

provision as to the manner of summoning a meeting (including provision as to how any power to require a meeting is to be exercised, provision as to the manner of determining the value of any debt or contribution for the purposes of any such power and provision making the exercise of any such power subject to the deposit of a sum sufficient to cover the expenses likely to be incurred in summoning and holding a meeting);

(b)

provision specifying the time and place at which a meeting may be held and the period of notice required for a meeting;

(c)

provision as to the procedure to be followed at a meeting (including the manner in which decisions may be reached by a meeting and the manner in which the value of any vote at a meeting is to be determined);

(d)

provision for requiring a person who is or has been an officer of the company to attend a meeting;

(e)

provision creating, in the prescribed circumstances, a presumption that a meeting has been duly summoned and held;

(f)

provision as to the manner of proving the decisions of a meeting.

Notes on Schedule 8

Modifications

C1

Sch. 8 applied (with modifications) (S.) (6.4.2001 to the extent that that Sch. does not apply to voluntary arrangements or administrations within the meaning of Pts. I, II of the Act) by S.S.I. 2001/128, reg. 4(1), Sch. 2

C2

Sch. 8 applied in part (with modifications) (4.1.2024) by S.I. 2021/716, Sch. 1 para. 3 (as amended by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1399), regs. 1(2), 20)

C3

Sch. 8 applied (with modifications) (E.W.) (15.3.2024) by The Water Industry (Special Administration) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/205), regs. 2(2), 5(1) (with reg. 64)