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Financial Markets Act, 2012 (Act No. 19 of 2012)

Chapter XII : General provisions

Winding-up, business rescue and curatorship

100. Winding-up or sequestration by court

 

(1) Despite any other law, an order for the winding-up or sequestration of the estate of a regulated person may be granted by the court on the application of—
(a) the regulated person;
(b) one or more of the regulated person’s creditors;
(c) if the regulated person is an exchange, a central securities depository or an independent clearing house, one or more authorised users, participants or clearing members, as the case may be;
(d) jointly, any of or all the parties mentioned in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c);
(e) the business rescue practitioner of the regulated person;
(f) the provisional curator or curator of a regulated person; or
(g) the Authority.

 

(2) A regulated person which is a company or other corporate body may be wound up, subject to section 102, according to the Companies Act, and the estate of a regulated person who is a natural person or partnership may be sequestrated according to the Insolvency Act.

 

(3) Despite the Companies Act—
(a) any resolution or court application made under the Companies Act in respect of a regulated person must be filed with or served on the Authority, as the case may be, and must be approved by the Authority prior to the filing or serving thereof;
(b) in relation to a court application in respect of a regulated person, the Authority may file affidavits and other documents relating to, and may appear and be heard at the hearing of, the application;
(c) a company may file a resolution under section 80 of the Companies Act in respect of a regulated person only after the Authority has approved the resolution; and
(d) the certificate referred to in section 82(1) of the Companies Act in respect of a regulated person must also be filed with the Authority.

 

(4) A court may not grant a liquidation order in respect of a regulated person without the approval of the Authority.

 

(5) If the Authority does not approve the resolutions of the regulated person made under section 80 of the Companies Act, the Authority may apply—
(a) for the liquidation and winding-up of the regulated person under section 81 of that Act; or
(b) to court for placing that regulated person under curatorship in terms of the Financial Institutions (Protection of Funds) Act.

 

(6) A regulated person may not be placed in liquidation or sequestration while under curatorship, unless the curator applies for such liquidation or sequestration.