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Petition for winding up of railway company may be presented under 25 & 26 Vict. c. 89. and 30 & 31 Vict. c. 131.
30 & 31 Vict. cc. 126, 127.
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4. Where a warrant has been granted under the principal Acts for the abandonment of the whole railway of any railway company, a petition for winding up the affairs of such company may be presented under the Companies Acts, 1862 and 1867, by the company, or by any person who under the last-mentioned Acts is authorized to present a petition for winding up a company, or by any person upon whose application the Board of Trade may proceed in pursuance of section thirty-two of the Railway Companies (Scotland) Act, 1867, and the Railway Companies Act, 1867, as the case may be, and for that purpose the railway company whose railway is so authorized to be abandoned shall be deemed to be an unregistered company which may be wound up under the Companies Acts, 1862 and 1867, and the provisions of the principal Acts which remain in force relating to winding up shall be construed as if the Companies Acts, 1862 and 1867, and the winding up provided by this section, were therein referred to.
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