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.
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In any company documents management, more particularly, preservation of documents is of critical importance. However it appears that generally in the corporate world in respect such preservation there is neither any laid down policy nor is preservation is done in any systematic manner. Hence Securities and Exchange Board of India has thought it fit to lay down, for the first time, provisions in this regard for companies whose securities are / shall be listed on the stock exchanges.
The law poses various obligations to be discharged by the Companies , Directors, Managers and other Officials. Non-compliance of such obligations attracts punishment which may be imprisonment and/ or fine/ penalty. The new Companies Act, 2013 has come up with more stringent punishment and penalties for the non- compliance of various provisions of and rules under the Act as compared to the former Companies Act, 1956.
SECRETARIAL STANDARD -1 [Meetings of Board of Directors]:- This Secretarial Standard is applicable on all the Companies except One Person Company. Besides, meeting of the Board of Directors, the standard is also applicable on meeting of the Committee(s) of the Board unless otherwise stated by any other applicable guidelines, rules and regulations.
S.O. 3388(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 1 of the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2015 (21 of 2015), the Central Government hereby appoints the 14th day of December, 2015 as the date on which the provisions of section 13 and 14 of the said Act shall come into force.
6A. Omnibus approval for related party transactions on annual basis.- All related party transactions shall require approval of the Audit Committee and the Audit Committee may make omnibus approval for related party transactions proposed to be entered into by the company subject to the following conditions, namely:-
13. Reporting of frauds by auditor and other matters: (1) lf an auditor of a company, in the course of the performance of his duties as statutory auditor, has reason to believe that an offence of fraud, which involves or is expected to involve individually an amount of rupees one crore or above, is being or has been committed against the company by its officers or employees, the auditor shall report the matter to the Central Government.
As per Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, Promoter means a person or company that organizes or provides money for performance or an event. Promoter is a person (natural or artificial) who tries to persuade others about the value or importance of something. From legal definition, Promoter is a person or company that finances or organizes or involved in setting up and funding a new company.
Secretarial Audit a Governance measure that will have a positive effect on corporate entity. It is Compliance Audit system that used to carrying out auditing of compliances along with all Rules and Regulation made there under. It is a process to check compliances made by the Company under various Law, Rules, Regulation, and Procedure.
Quorum here means the minimum number of directors to be present at the board meeting in order to hold the board meeting. The provisions related to the minimum no. of directors i.e. quorum is provided u/s 174 of the companies Act 2013.
Yet again elongation of dates… Ever since the new MGT-7 has been introduced; there has been prevailing number of confusions in filing MGT-7.The said form is governed by Section 92(1) of the Companies Act, 2013 read with rule 11(1) of the Companies (Management and Administration) Rules, 2014, and is the Annual Return filed by every company for their respective financial year.
