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523. Disapplication of section 440 to receivers in certain circumstances

(1) This section applies where either -

(a) an examiner has been appointed to a company, or

(b) an examiner has not been appointed to a company but, in the opinion of the court, such an appointment may yet be made.

(2) Where this section applies, on application being made to it in that behalf, the court may, subject to subsections (4) and (5), make, in relation to a receiver who stands appointed to the whole or any part of the property or undertaking of the company referred to in subsection (1), the following order.

(3) That order of the court is one providing that section 440 shall not apply as respects payments made by the receiver out of assets coming into his or her hands as such receiver.

(4) The court shall only make such an order if it would, in the opinion of the court, be likely to facilitate the survival of the company, and the whole or any part of its undertaking, as a going concern.