Companies (Accounts) Amendment Rules, 2014

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 14th October, 2014

G.S.R. 723(E). — In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (3) of section 128, sub-section (3) of section 129, section 133, section 134, sub­section (4) of section 135, sub-section (1) of section 136, section 137 and section 138 read with section 469 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules to amend the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014, namely:-

1. (1) These rules may be called the Companies (Accounts) Amendment Rules,

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

2. In the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014, in rule 6, after the existing proviso, the following provisos shall be inserted, namely:-

“Provided further that nothing in this rule shall apply in respect of preparation of consolidated financial statement by an intermediate wholly-owned subsidiary, other than a wholly-owned subsidiary whose immediate parent is a company incorporated outside India:

Provided also that nothing contained in this rule shall, subject to any other law or regulation, apply for the financial year commencing from the 1^st day of April, 2014 and ending on the 31^st March, 2015, in case of a company which does not have a subsidiary or subsidiaries but has one or more associate companies or joint ventures or both, for the consolidation of financial statement in respect of associate companies or joint ventures or both, as the case may be. “

[F. No. 1/19/2013-CL-V-Part]

AMARDEEP SINGH BHATIA , Jt. Secy.

Note .- The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 239(E), dated the 31^st March, 2014.