137 Fixing a date for proving debts

Part - 8

Settlement of list of creditors

137. Fixing a date for proving debts.

Subject to the provisions of the Act and rules made thereunder and in a winding up by the Tribunal, subject to the directions of the Tribunal, the Liquidator in a winding up by the Tribunal shall, and the LLP Liquidator in voluntary winding up may, fix a certain day, which shall be not less than fourteen days from the date of the notice to be given under the rule 138, on or before which the creditors of the LLP are to prove their debts or claims and to establish any title for they may have to priority under preferential payments, or to be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts or claims are proved, or, as the case may be, from objecting to such distribution.