Section 556 - Enforcement of duty of liquidator to make returns, etc. - Companies Act, 1956

Enforcement of duty of liquidator to make returns, etc. 556. (1) If any 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 [1] [Tribunal] may, on an application made to the 2[Tribunal] by any contributory or creditor of the company or by the Registrar, make an order directing the liquidator to make good the default within such time as may be specified in the order. (2) Any such order may provide that all costs of and incidental to the application shall be borne by the liquidator. (3) Nothing in this section shall be taken to prejudice the operation of any enactment imposing penalties on a liquidator in respect of any such default as aforesaid. ---------------------------------- Notes:- [1] Substituted for "Court" by the Companies (Second Amendment) Act, 2002, w.e.f. a date yet to be n notified.