The Companies Act is a legislation that governs the formation, functioning, and management of companies. Explore the key provisions, compliance requirements, and legal framework under the Companies Act.
Company Law : The Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 proposes sweeping reforms to improve corporate governance, digital compliance, and globa...
CA, CS, CMA : The article explains how buy-back taxation shifted from company-level tax to shareholder taxation under the Finance Act, 2024 and ...
Fema / RBI : RBI has created a new category called Unregistered Type 1 NBFC for companies operating only with internal or group funds and witho...
Company Law : Registrar of Companies clarified that Section 155 absolutely prohibits holding more than one DIN. Penalties were imposed even thou...
Company Law : This guide explains the complete process for quick Private Limited Company registration in India, including required documents, DS...
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 : NFRA introduced guidelines to evaluate audit firms’ compliance and quality control systems. The framework emphasizes governance,...
Company Law : ICSI highlights delays in marking defective forms by RoCs under CCFS 2026. It urges MCA to mandate time-bound processing or allow ...
Company Law : The issue is ambiguity in filing authority during liquidation. ICSI has requested clarity to enable liquidators to maintain statut...
Company Law : The Madras High Court permitted Nidhi companies to submit fresh replies against NDH-4 rejection orders and directed authorities to...
Company Law : Legal Analysis and Narrative Brief: Dale and Carrington Investment Pvt. Ltd. and Another v. P.K. Prathapan and Others (Supreme Cou...
Company Law : The case examined whether Tribunal approval was required for extending preference share redemption. It was held that such extensio...
Company Law : The Tribunal held that allegations of siphoning ₹30 lakh were not supported by any evidence tracing funds to the respondent. Mer...
Company Law : The Court held that a separate meeting of sub-class shareholders is not required when identical terms are offered to the entire cl...
Company Law : ROC Delhi imposed penalties under Section 450 after a company failed to appoint an internal auditor despite crossing prescribed fi...
Company Law : ROC Delhi imposed penalties after a company failed to form Audit and Nomination Committees despite crossing the prescribed turnove...
Company Law : ROC Kolkata imposed penalties after a company incorrectly reported that consolidated financial statements were not applicable in i...
Company Law : ROC Kolkata penalized a company and its directors for not appointing a woman director after turnover crossed ₹300 crore. The ord...
Company Law : ROC Uttar Pradesh imposed penalties under Section 134(8) after finding that the company’s directors failed to provide comments o...
W.E.F. June 01, 2016 Government constituted the Benches of National Company Law Tribunal and hence, the Central Government vide Notification No. S.O. 1934(E) subject to the provisions of Companies Act, 2013, has declared 01.06.2016 as the date on which the provisions of the companies act shall come into force. These are the provisions, which yet […]
Ministry Of Corporate Affairs has vide Notification No. S.O. 1934(E) dated: 01st June, 2016 notified the date from which 29 Provisions related to Company law will come into effect. In this article we have compiled Text of all these 29 Provisions for ready reference of our readers.
Ministry of Corporate Affairs (‘MCA’), on the 23rd of May, 2016 came up with the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility) Amendment Rules, 2016, with the intent to simplify the language complexity under the earlier Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility) Rules, 2014.
Every Report made by the auditor under section 143 of the 2013 Act for the FY commencing on or after 1 st April 2015 would include CARO 2016. It would be applicable to every company (except some companies) including a foreign company defined under section 2(42) of the 2013 Act. The CARO would not be applicable to the auditor’s report on consolidated financial statements.
It has been more than 14 years that we first heard about National Company Law Tribunal [NCLT] & National Company Law Appellate Tribunal [NCLAT]. But now by MCA Notification dated 1st June, 2016 in exercise of the powers conferred by section 408 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013), the Central Government hereby constitutes […]
As we all are aware that there are various ways of raising fund in the company, which may be equity financing, debt financing or by any other issue of securities. The Company apart from the raising of fund by way loans sometimes opts the method of issuing equity shares, preference shares, debentures or any other security, which may or may not be at later stage convertible into shares.
Central Government hereby appoints the 01st day of June, 2016, on which all matters or proceedings or cases pending before the Board of Company Law Administration (Company Law Board) shall stand transferred to the National Company Law Tribunal
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 419 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013), the Central Government hereby constitutes the following Benches of the National Company Law Tribunal mentioned in column (2) of the table below, located at the place mentioned in column (3) and to exercise the jurisdiction over the area mentioned in column (4), namely:-
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of section 1 of the Companies Act, 20l3 (18 of 20l3), the Central Government hereby appoints the 01st day of June, 2016 as the date on which the following provisions of the said Act shall come into force, namely :—
Govt constitutes National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) for hearing appeals against orders of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT).
