Companies (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1999

Priority of costs, remuneration and expenses of examiner.

28.— Section 29 of the Act of 1990 is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (3) of the following subsections:

“(3) The remuneration, costs and expenses of an examiner which have been sanctioned by order of the court (other than the expenses referred to in subsection (3A)) shall be paid in full and shall be paid before any other claim, secured or unsecured, under any compromise or scheme of arrangement or in any receivership or winding-up of the company to which he has been appointed.

(3A) Liabilities incurred by the company to which an examiner has been appointed that, by virtue of section 10(1), are treated as expenses properly incurred by the examiner shall be paid in full and shall be paid before any other claim (including a claim secured by a floating charge), but after any claim secured by a mortgage, charge, lien or other encumbrance of a fixed nature or a pledge, under any compromise or scheme of arrangement or in any receivership or winding-up of the company to which he has been appointed.

(3B) In subsections (3) and (3A) references to a claim shall be deemed to include references to any payment in a winding-up of the company in respect of the costs, charges and expenses of that winding-up (including the remuneration of any liquidator).”.