Rule 138 - Notice to creditors - Limited Liability Partnership (Winding up and Dissolution) Rules, 2010

Notice to creditors 138. (1) The liquidator shall give not less than fourteen days notice of the date so fixed by advertisement in one issue of a daily newspaper in the English language and one issue of a daily newspaper in the regional language circulating in the State or Union territory concerned, as he considers suitable. (2) The advertisements under sub-rule (1) shall be released within thirty days from the date of confirmation of the sale and be in Form No. 41. (3) If the number of creditors do not exceed one hundred, individual notices may be given by letter post under certificate of posting or registered post or any other mode specified in rule 15 of the Limited Liability Partnership Rules, 2009 within thirty days from the date of confirmation of the sale or on any earlier date and advertisement in newspapers may be dispensed with. (4) The Liquidator shall also give not less than fourteen days notice of the date fixed, in a winding up by the Tribunal, to every person mentioned in the statement of affairs, as a creditor, who has not proved his debt and to every person mentioned in the statement of affairs as a preferential creditor, whose claim to be a preferential creditor has not been established or is not admitted, to the address indicated in the statement of affairs and such notice shall be in Form No. 42 or Form No. 43 and shall be sent to each such creditor either by letter post under certificate of posting or registered post or any other mode specified in rule 15 of the Limited Liability Partnership Rules, 2009. (5) All proceedings and procedures hereinafter set out as to the admission or rejection of proofs shall apply with necessary variations to any claim to priority as a preferential creditor.