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Government has received references seeking clarity about the status of subsidiaries incorporated/to be incorporated by companies incorporated outside India. Attention has, in particular, been drawn to the absence of the deeming provision of sub-section (7) of section 4 of the Companies Act, 1956 in the Companies Act, 2013 (New Act).
Companies have also sought clarity about permitting free of cost inspection of records under rule 14(2) and rule 16 of the rules cited above and till a fee is prescribed for the purpose in the Articles. It is clarified that until the requisite fee is specified by companies, inspections could be allowed without levy of fee.
Central Government hereby, in public interest, directs that the provisions of sections 43, 47, Clause (a) and (b) of sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) of section 62, 73, 101 to 107, 109, clause (g) of sub-section (3) of section 141, 160, 162, sub-sections (4) and (5) of section 196, section 180, section185, section 188, subsection (3) of section 203 of the Companies Act, 2013 shall apply to a private Company with the modifications set out below, a copy of this notification having been laid in draft before both Houses of Parliament as required by sub-section (2) of section 462 of the said Act, namely:-
1. (1) These rules may be called the Companies (Management and Administration) Amendment Rules, 2014. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
The Companies Act, 2013 lays down number of provision as regards the Independent Directors compulsorily to be appointed on the Board of Listed & certain Public Companies meeting the criteria as prescribed by the Rules.
Record date is the date fixed for taking record of shareholders or debenture holders of the Company. An investor must be a shareholder/ debenture holder on this particular date in order to be eligible to participate in a particular corporate action.
Acknowledging industry’s concerns in the implementation of the Companies Act, 2013, Shri Naved Masood, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs said, The law fortunately delegates considerable power to the Government to make rules, through which many of the issues highlighted by the industry can be addressed.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been in existence for a long time and is almost as old as civilization. It is based on the Gandhian Principle of trusteeship concept whereby business houses are looked upon as trustees of the resources they draw from society and thus are expected to return them back manifold.
Amounts which are not considered as deposits (Rule 2 of Companies (Acceptance of Deposits) Rules, 2014) – any amount received from the Central Government or a State Government, or any amount received from any other source whose repayment is guaranteed by the Central Government or a State Government, or any amount received from a local authority, or any amount received from a statutory authority constituted under an Act of Parliament or a State Legislature.
Where loan/deposits were falling in the definition of Deposits under Companies (Acceptance of Deposits) Rules, 1975 on 31.03.2014 and now the loan/deposits also falls in the definition of deposits under Companies (Acceptance of Deposits) Rules, 2014.
