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Article 147 Right of inspection and retention of proxies

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

A person attending a meeting is entitled, immediately before or in the course of the meeting, to inspect proxies and associated documents delivered to the chair or to any other person in accordance with the notice convening the meeting.

(2)

The chair must—

(a)

retain the proxies used for voting at a meeting where the chair is the SMCL administrator; or

(b)

deliver them as soon as reasonably practicable after the meeting to the SMCL administrator.

(3)

The SMCL administrator must allow proxies so long as they remain in the SMCL administrator’s hands to be inspected at all reasonable times on any business day by—

(a)

a creditor, in the case of proxies used at a meeting of creditors;

(b)

a member of the SMCL or a contributory, in the case of proxies used at a meeting of the SMCL, or a meeting of contributories; or

(c)

a director of the SMCL.

(4)

A creditor in paragraph (3)(a) is a person who has delivered a proof in the proceedings, but does not include a person whose claim has been wholly rejected.

(5)

However the right of inspection is subject to Rule 189 (confidentiality of documents- grounds for refusing inspection).