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The Companies Act, 2013

Chapter XX - Winding Up (270 - 365)

Section 353- Liquidator to make returns, etc.

[ Section 353 notified with effect from 15.12.2016 vide S.O. 3676 (E) dated 07.12.2016]

Section 353- Liquidator to make returns, etc. [Corresponds to Section 556 of the Companies Act, 1956]

(1) If any Company Liquidator who has made any default in filing, delivering or making any return, account or other document, or in giving any notice which he is by law required to file, deliver, make or give, fails to make good the default within fourteen days after the service on him of a notice requiring him to do so, the Tribunal may, on an application made to it by any contributory or creditor of the company or by the Registrar, make an order directing the Company Liquidator to make good the default within such time as may be specified in the order.

(2) Any order under sub-section (1) may provide that all costs of, and incidental to, the application shall be borne by the Company Liquidator.

(3) Nothing in this section shall prejudice the operation of any enactment imposing penalties on a Company Liquidator in respect of any such default as aforesaid.