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CHAPTER XXI · PARTI.—Companies authorised to Register under this Act

Section 372: Power of Court to stay or restrain proceedings

The Companies Act, 2013

The provisions of this Act 1[or of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (31 of 2016), as the case may be,] with respect to staying and restraining suits and other legal proceedings against a company at any time after the presentation of a petition for winding up and before the making of a winding up order, shall, in the case of a company registered in pursuance of this Part, where the application to stay or restrain is by a creditor, extend to suits and other legal proceedings against any contributory of the company.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.The proviso ins. by Act 31 of 2016, s. 255 and the Eleventh Schedule (w.e.f. 15-11-2016).

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