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CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 - SECT 444D

Effect of deed on creditors

  (1)   A deed of company arrangement binds all creditors of the company, so far as concerns claims arising on or before the day specified in the deed under paragraph   444A(4)(i).

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not prevent a secured creditor from realising or otherwise dealing with the security interest, except so far as:

  (a)   the deed so provides in relation to a secured creditor who voted in favour of the resolution of creditors because of which the company executed the deed; or

  (b)   the Court orders under subsection   444F(2).

  (3)   Subsection   (1) does not affect a right that an owner or lessor of property has in relation to that property, except so far as:

  (a)   the deed so provides in relation to an owner or lessor of property who voted in favour of the resolution of creditors because of which the company executed the deed; or

  (b)   the Court orders under subsection   444F(4).

  (3A)   Subsection   (3) does not apply in relation to an owner or lessor of PPSA retention of title property of the company.

Note:   Subsection   (2) applies in relation to an owner or lessor of PPSA retention of title property of the company. Such an owner or lessor is a secured creditor of the company (see section   51F (meaning of PPSA retention of title property )).

  (4)   Section   231 does not prevent a creditor of the company from becoming a member of the company as a result of the deed requiring the creditor to accept an offer of shares in the company.



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