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263: Restriction on enforcement of lien over documents
or “Limits on keeping company documents as security for unpaid debts during liquidation”
You could also call this:

“ Documents creating a legal claim over company property must be given to the liquidator ”

You must give a document to the liquidator even if having the document gives you a legal claim over the company’s property. This is based on section 261 of the Companies Act.

When you give the document to the liquidator, it doesn’t change or affect your legal claim or its importance. The liquidator must let you see and use the document if you need it to deal with your claim or the property it’s connected to.

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Part 16 Liquidations
Duties, rights, and powers of liquidators

264Delivery of document creating charge over property

  1. A person is required to deliver a document to a liquidator under section 261 even though possession of the document creates a charge over property of a company.

  2. Production of the document to the liquidator does not prejudice the existence or priority of the charge, but the liquidator must make the document available to the person entitled to it for the purpose of dealing with or realising the charge or the secured property.