Section 439 of Insolvency Act CAP 53: Power of Official Receiver to appoint liquidator in certain cases
(1) In the case of a liquidation ordered by the Court, the Official Receiver (being the liquidator) may, at any time, appoint a qualified person as liquidator instead.
(2) If meetings are held in accordance with a decision under section 438(5)(a), but no person is chosen to be liquidator as a result of those meetings, the Official Receiver shall decide whether a liquidator should be appointed in respect of the company.
(3) On deciding that such an appointment should be made, the Official Receiver shall appoint a qualified person as liquidator.
(4) Immediately after making an appointment under subsection (1) or (3), the Official Receiver shall notify the appointment to the Court.
(5) The person appointed shall, as soon as practicable (and not later than seven days) after being appointed—
(a) send a notice of the appointment to the company's creditors; or
(b) if, on application made to the Court, the Court so allows, advertise the appointment in accordance with the directions of the Court.
(6) If appointed under subsection (3), the person appointed shall state in the notice or advertisement—
(a) whether it is proposed to convene a general meeting of the company's creditors under section 442 for the purpose of determining (together with any meeting of contributories) whether a liquidation committee should be established under that section; and
(b) if it is not proposed to convene such a meeting, that the creditors are entitled under that section to require one to be convened.
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