14. (1) Where the proposed reduction of share capital involves either extinction or diminution of liability in respect of unpaid share capital or the payment to any shareholder of any paid-up share capital, and in any other case if the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Cooperatives and Financial Institutions so directs, every creditor of the company who at the date of the petition for confirmation is entitled to any debt or claim which if that date were the commencement of the winding-up of the company, would be admissible in proof against the company, shall be entitled to object to the reduction.
(2) The Minister of Consumer Affairs, Cooperatives and Financial Institutions shall settle a list of creditors so entitled to object, and for that purpose shall ascertain the names of such creditors and the nature and amount of their debts or claims. He may thereupon publish notices fixing a delay within which creditors not entered on the list are to claim to be so entered or are to be excluded from the right of objecting to the reduction.
(3) Where a creditor entered on the list does not consent to the reduction, the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Cooperatives and Financial Institutions may, if he thinks fit, dispense with the consent of that creditor, on the company paying to the creditor his debt or claim in one of the ways hereafter mentioned, as the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Cooperatives and Financial Institutions may direct, to wit:(a) If the company admits the full amount of this debt or claim, or, though not admitting it, is willing to pay it, then the full amount of the debt or claim;
(b) If the company does not admit or is not willing to provide for the full amount of the debt or claim, or if the amount is contingent or not ascertained, then an amount fixed by the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Cooperatives and Financial Institutions after the like inquiry and adjudication as if the company were being wound up.