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Part 6 · Corporate Insolvency — Receivership

78. Power of Court to fix remuneration of receivers or managers

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(1)

The Court may, on application of —

(a)

a company or corporation;

(b)

the liquidator of a company or corporation; or

(c)

the person who appointed the receiver or manager,by order fix the amount to be paid by way of remuneration to any person who has been appointed as receiver or manager of the property of the company or of the property in Singapore of the corporation.

(2)

The power of the Court, where no previous order has been made with respect to that matter —

(a)

extends to fixing the remuneration for any period before the making of the order or the application for the order;

(b)

is exercisable even though the receiver or manager has died or ceased to act before the making of the order or the application for the order; and

(c)

where the receiver or manager has been paid, or has retained for the remuneration of the receiver or manager, for any period before the making of the order, any amount in excess of that fixed for that period — extends to requiring the receiver or manager, or the personal representatives of the receiver or manager, to account for the excess or such part of the excess as may be specified in the order.

(3)

The power conferred by subsection (2)(c) must not be exercised in respect of any period before the making of the application for the order, unless in the opinion of the Court there are special circumstances making it proper for the power to be so exercised.

(4)

The Court may from time to time, on an application made by the receiver or manager, or any of the persons mentioned in subsection (1), vary or amend an order made under this section.

Report

Part 7

Judicial Management

Part 8

Winding Up

Part 9

Provisions Applicable in Judicial Management and Winding Up

Part 10

Winding Up of Unregistered Companies and Liquidation or Dissolution of Foreign Companies

Part 10A

Simplified Winding Up

Part 11

Cross-Border Insolvency

Part 12

General Provisions Applicable to Parts 4 to 11

Part 13

Bankruptcy — Preliminary

Part 14

Voluntary Arrangements

Part 15

Debt Repayment Scheme

Part 16

Proceedings in Bankruptcy

Part 17

Administration in Bankruptcy

Part 18

Annulment and Discharge

Part 19

Duties, Disqualification and Disabilities of Bankrupt

Part 20

Bankruptcy Offences

Part 21

Bankruptcy Miscellaneous Provisions

Part 22

Provisions Against Debt Avoidance and Limitation on Certain Contractual Rights

Part 23

Miscellaneous and General Provisions

Part 24

Consequential and Related Amendments to Other Acts

Part 25

Saving and Transitional Provisions

Schedules