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Development Financial Institutions Act 2002 s 60

Development Financial Institutions Act 2002 s 60

s 60 Reduction of share capital and cancellation of shares

(1) Notwithstanding anything in any written law or the constituent documents of a prescribed institution, where the paid-up capital of the prescribed institution is lost or unrepresented by available assets, the Bank or the appointed person, as the case may be, may apply to the High Court for an order to reduce its share capital by cancelling any portion of its paid-up capital which is lost or unrepresented by available assets. (2) Where the High Court makes an order under subsection (1) to reduce the share capital of the prescribed institution, the Court may, if, on the expiry of thirty days from the date of any call made by the prescribed institution on its members to pay on their respective shares, payment on any such shares has not been made, order that such shares for which payment has not been made be cancelled. (3) Where the share capital of a prescribed institution is reduced under subsection (1), or any of its shares is cancelled under subsection (2), the Bank, or the appointed person, as the case may be, may cause the constituent documents of the prescribed institution to be altered accordingly. (4) The powers conferred on the Bank and the appointed person under this section shall be in addition to any power exercisable under subsection 64(1) of the Companies Act 1965, and where an application is made to the High Court under subsection (1), the High Court may exercise any of the powers conferred on it under section 64 of the Companies Act 1965 in relation to an application for confirmation and subsections 64(9) and 64(10) of that Act shall apply to the application.

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Find Act 618 on lom.agc.gov.my ↗

Text as at 1 August 2016 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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