702. (1) Every instrument of proxy shall be lodged—

(a) in the case of a winding up by the court, with the liquidator,

(b) in the case of a meeting under section 587, with the company at its registered office, and

(c) in the case of a voluntary winding up and the meeting is not one referred to in paragraph (b), with the liquidator or, if there is no liquidator, with the person named in the notice convening the meeting to receive the proxy,

not later than four o’clock in the afternoon of the day before the meeting or adjourned meeting at which it is to be used.

(2) No person who is a minor shall be appointed a general or special proxy.

(3) In the case of a creditor who is incapable of writing because of blindness or other physical infirmity, an instrument of proxy of the creditor may, subject to subsection (4), be accepted if the creditor has attached his or her signature or mark to the proxy in the presence of a witness and that witness has added to the creditor’s signature the witness’s description and residence.

(4) Subsection (3) only applies if—

(a) all insertions in the instrument of proxy are in the handwriting of the witness, and

(b) the witness has certified, at the foot of the instrument of proxy, that all such insertions have been made by the witness at the request and in the presence of the creditor before the creditor attached his or her signature or mark.

(5) Where a company is a creditor, any person who is duly authorised under the seal of that company to act generally on behalf of that company at meetings of creditors, members and contributories may fill in and sign the instrument of proxy on that company’s behalf and appoint himself or herself to be that company’s proxy.

(6) The instrument of proxy so filled in and signed by such person shall be received and dealt with as a proxy of that company but this is without prejudice to section 703.

(7) In subsection (5) “company” means any company which is capable of being wound up under this Act and any other body corporate.