ACT 125
COMPANIES ACT 1965 (REVISED - 1973)
PART VII - ARRANGEMENT AND RECONSTRUCTIONS

 
Section 178. Provisions for facilitating reconstruction and amalgamation of companies.
 

(1) Where an application is made to the Court under this Part for the approval of a compromise or arrangement and it is shown to the Court that the compromise or arrangement has been proposed for the purposes of or in connection with scheme for the reconstruction of any company or the amalgamation of any two or more companies and that under the scheme the whole or any part of the undertaking or the property of any company concerned in the scheme (in this section referred to as the "transferor company") is to be transferred to another company (in this section referred to as the "transferee company"), the Court may either by the order approving the compromise or arrangement or by any subsequent order provide for all or any of the following matters:

    (a) the transfer to the transferee company of the whole or any part of the undertaking and of the property or liabilities of the transferor company;

    (b) the allotting or appropriation by the transferee company of any shares, debentures, policies or other like interests in that company which under the compromise or arrangement are to be allotted or appropriated by that company to or for any person;

    (c) the continuation by or against the transferee company of any legal proceedings pending by or against the transferor company;

    (d) the dissolution, without winding up, of the transferor company;

    (e) the provision to be made for any persons who, within such time and in such manner as the Court directs, dissent from the compromise or arrangement; and

    (f) such incidental, consequential and supplemental matters as are necessary to secure that the reconstruction or amalgamation shall be fully and effectively carried out.

(2) Where an order made under this section provides for the transfer of property or liabilities, then by virtue of the order that property shall be transferred to and vest in, and those liabilities shall be transferred to and become the liabilities of, the transferee company, free in the case of any particular property if the order so directs, from any change which is by virtue of the compromise or arrangement to cease to have effect.

(3) Where an order is made under this section every company in relation to which the order is made shall lodge within seven days of the making of the order—

    (a) an office copy of the order with the Registrar; and

    (b) where the order relates to land, an office copy of the order with the appropriate authority concerned with the registration or recording of dealings in that land,

and every company which makes default in complying with this section and every officer of the company who is in default shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.

Penalty: Two thousand ringgit. Default penalty.

(4) No vesting order referred to in this section shall have any effect or operation in transferring or otherwise vesting land until the appropriate entries are made with respect to the vesting of that land by the appropriate authority.

(5) In this section—

"liabilities" includes duties;

"property" includes property rights and powers of every description.

(6) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 176(11) "company" in this section does not include any company other than a company as defined in section 4.