Overriding preferential payment

Can you explain me clause b of section 326
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This discussion clarifies Clause B of Section 326 concerning overriding preferential payments during company winding up. It explains that workmen's dues and certain debts due to secured creditors are prioritised. The section specifies that sums towards wages or salaries for a period of two years preceding the winding up order must be paid before other debts, including those to secured creditors, within thirty days of asset sale.

Overriding preferential payments
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or any other law for the time being in force, in the winding up of a company,—
workmen‘s dues; and
debts due to secured creditors to the extent such debts rank under clause (iii) of the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 325 pari passu with such dues,
debts due to secured creditors to the extent such debts rank under clause (iii) of the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 325 pari passu with such dues,
Provided that in case of the winding up of a company, the sums towards wages or salary referred to in sub-clause (i) of clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 325, which are payable for a period of two years preceding the winding up order or such other period as may be prescribed, shall be paid in priority to all other debts (including debts due to secured creditors), within a period of thirty days of sale of assets and shall be subject to such charge over the security of secured creditors as may be prescribed.
The debts payable under the proviso to sub-section (1) shall be paid in full before any payment is made to secured creditors and thereafter debts payable under that sub-section shall be paid in full, unless the assets are insufficient to meet them, in which case they shall abate in equal proportions.

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