MCA amends Due date for filing DIR-3KYC

Due date for filing DIR-3KYC [Companies (Appointment and Qualification of Directors) Amendment Rules, 2019]

MCA has issued Companies (Appointment and Qualification of Directors) Amendment Rules, 2019 on 30.04.2019. By this amendment the Ministry has changed the due date from ’30th, April of immediate next financial year’ to ’30th June of immediate next financial year’. 

So every individual having or obtained the DIN on or before 31st March has to file DIR-3 KYC on or before 30th June of immediate next Financial Year. By this amendment Directors or individual having DIN are getting 3 months time instead of 30 days time to file KYC.

MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS
NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, 30^th April, 2019

G.S.R. 339(E). — In exercise of the powers conferred by the second proviso to sub-section (1), sub-section (4), clause (I) of sub-section (6) of section 149, sub-sections (3) and (4) of section 150, section 151, sub-section (5) of section 152, section 153, section 154, section 157, section 160, sub-section (1) of section 168 and section 170 read with section 469 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Companies (Appointment and Qualification of Directors) Rules, 2014, namely: —

1. (1) These rules may be called the Companies (Appointment and Qualification of Directors) Amendment Rules, 2019.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Companies (Appointment and Qualification of Directors) Rules, 2014, in rule 12A, for the words and figures “on or before 30^th April of immediate next financial year”, the words and figures “on or before 30^th June of immediate next financial year” shall be substituted.

[F. No. 1/22/ 2013-CL-V]

(K.V.R. Murty)

Joint Secretary to the Government of India

Note:—The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 259(E), dated the 31^st March, 2014 and subsequently amended vide the following notifications:-