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Company Law : This guide explains the complete legal procedure for transferring a registered office from one State to another under the Companie...
Company Law : This guide explains the legal provisions, procedural steps, and filing requirements involved in converting a public company into a...
Company Law : The article explains the legal framework governing debenture issuance under the Companies Act, 2013. It outlines the types of debe...
Company Law : Section 42 of the Companies Act, 2013 permits companies to raise funds from a select group of investors through private placement....
Company Law : The 2025 amendments significantly expand the scope of fast-track mergers by allowing more categories of companies, including eligi...
Company Law : The MCA has widened CSR eligibility by recognizing subscriptions to Zero Coupon Zero Principal Instruments as a valid CSR activity...
Company Law : Provisional list of audit firms of listed companies yet to file NFRA-2 for 2023-24. Filing deadline was 30.11.2025; fines apply fo...
Company Law : ICSI recommended restoring public access to basic company master data without mandatory login requirements. The representation sta...
Company Law : The issue concerns eligibility and participation rules for the convocation. ICSI has clarified that members who do not attend will...
Company Law : NFRA introduced guidelines to evaluate audit firms’ compliance and quality control systems. The framework emphasizes governance,...
Company Law : The NCLAT held that winding-up proceedings transferred to the NCLT must satisfy the threshold applicable under the IBC at the time...
Company Law : Resolution Professional (RP) was fully justified in seeking possession through the insolvency process itself, the NCLAT affirmed t...
Company Law : The NCLAT held that unregistered profit-sharing agreements do not create leasehold or occupancy rights in immovable property. The ...
Company Law : While approving the resolution plan, NCLT clarified that exemptions relating to taxes, duties, and statutory compliances must be o...
Company Law : A Successful Resolution Applicant (SRA) could not avoid a CoC-approved resolution plan by claiming that the Letter of Intent (LoI)...
Company Law : The MCA has amended the valuation rules to require Registered Valuer Organisations to maintain a minimum paid-up capital of ₹25 ...
Company Law : The Registrar of Companies penalized the company and its authorized signatory after an incorrect document was attached with Form A...
Company Law : MCA amends Schedule VII of the Companies Act to include subscription to zero coupon zero principal instruments on Social Stock Exc...
Company Law : MCA has amended the CSR Rules to recognize zero coupon zero principal instruments issued by Social Stock Exchange-listed NPOs. The...
Company Law : ROC Mumbai held that repeated return of official notices proved non-maintenance of a registered office under Section 12(1) of the ...
The data regarding companies which have not given dividend to their shareholders is not maintained in this Ministry. Further, there is no statutory compulsion on the companies under the Companies Act 1956 to declare and pay dividends to their shareholders every year.
Power of winding up of a company was conferred on the Court and notwithstanding any arbitration agreement between the parties the arbitrator would have no jurisdiction to pass the said order. We fail to appreciate, how this decision would help us to decide the present controversy.
The ROC and Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) are not engaged in similar work. ROCs primarily work as Registrar/Regulators for administration of the various provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 and SFIO is responsible for investigation of serious nature of financial irregularities/frauds committed by companies, entrusted to it by the Central Government.
Notification No. GSR 630(E), dated 12-8-2012 – Company Law Board hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Company Law Board Regulations, 1991, namely:— 1. (1) These regulations may be called the Company Law Board (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2012.
The best way to start a business is to incorporate Private limited company because it has many advantages like limited liability of members and directors, separate legal entity, easy compliance, etc. A company can be formed with minimum 2 directors and minimum paid up capital of Rs 1 Lakh.
Circular No. 25/2012, dated 9-8-2012 The Ministry has received several representations from industry associations that para 6 of Accounting Standard-11 and para 4(e) of AS-16 are posing problems in proper implementation of para 46A of notification 914(E) dated 29-12-2011. In order to resolve the problems faced by industry, it is hereby clarified that para 6 of Accounting Standard-11 and para 4(e) of the Accounting Standard-16 shall not apply to a company which is applying clause 46A of Accounting Standard-11.
It has now been decided that any increase in remuneration of Non-Whole Time Director(s) of a company solely on account of payment of service tax on commission payable to them by the company shall not require approval of Central Government under section 309 and 310 of the Companies Act even if it exceeds the limit 1% or 3% of the profit [u/s 309(4)] of the company, as the case may be, in the financial year 2012-13.
On reading sub-sections (1), (2), (3) and (5) of Section 560, it does seem to me that a company can only be defunct, if it does not reply to the notice or says in reply that it does not carry on any business or is not in operation. If it asserts to the contrary, it cannot be struck off at all. Hence striking off is on the admission by the Company that it is defunct.
In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 642 read with section 610B of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), the Central Government hereby constitutes the Product or Activity Groups as given in the Annexure enclosed.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 642, read with sub-section (2) of section 637A of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), the Central Government hereby amends the notification of the Government of India in the erstwhile Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs (Department of Company Affairs) number G.S.R. 501(E), dated the 6th July, 1999 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), dated the 6th July, 1999, namely:-
