This chapter may and will replace the provisions of Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985. We may note this chapter has much wider impact then earlier Act of 1985.
SICK COMPANIES (SUB – SECTION 1 OF SECTION 253):
Where on a demand by the secured creditors of a company representing fifty percent or more of its outstanding amount of debt, the company has failed to pay the debt within a period of thirty days of the service of the notice of demand or to secure or compound it to the reasonable satisfaction of the creditors, any secured creditor may file an application to the Tribunal in the prescribed manner along with the relevant evidence for such default, non-repayment or failure to offer security or compound it, for a determination that the company be declared as a sick company.
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