BODIES CORPORATE (OFFICIAL LIQUIDATIONS) ACT - 1963 (ACT 180)

Section - 24 - Private Exmination by the Court

(1) The liquidator may at any time after the making of a winding up order summon before the Court any officer of the company or person known or suspected of having in his possession any property of the company or supposed to be indebted to the company, or any person whom the liquidator deems capable of giving information concerning the promotion, formation, trade, dealings, affairs or property of the company.

(2) The Court may examine any such person on oath concerning the matters specified in the preceding subsection either by word of mouth or on written interrogatories and may reduce his answers to writing and require him to sign them.

(3) The Court may require any such person to produce any books and papers in his custody or power relating to the company, so however that where he claims any lien on books or paper produced by him, the production shall be without prejudice to that lien, and the Court shall have jurisdiction in the official winding up to determine all questions relating to that lien.

(4) If any person so summoned, after being tendered a reasonable sum for his expenses, refuses to come before the Court at the time appointed, not having a lawful impediment, made known to the Court at the time of its sitting and allowed by the Court, the Court may cause him to be apprehended and brought before the Court for examination.