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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Every company (Private or Limited) need to comply with the filing with Registrar of Companies (RoC). Many entrepreneurs make a default in this part. This may be due to negligence or unawareness. Reason may be anything, this tend to result in stringent penalties. Following are the mandatory annual filing with RoC with their due dates: […]
MCA extend the period for which the one time waiver of additional fees is applicable to all e-forms which are due for filing by companies between the 25th March 2016 upto 31st May 2016 as well as extend the last date for filing such documents and availing the benefit of waiver to 10.06.2016.
It is clarified that companies, while undertaking Corporate Social Responsibility activities under provision of the Companies Act, 2013, shall not contravene any other prevailing laws of the land including Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), 2003.
Every type of Company whether large or small size have been facing variety of difficulties ever since the enactment of the said Act. While more than 180 clarifications, circulars and notifications have already been issued and one comprehensive round of amendment was also done in 2015 by
The Companies Act, 2013 (hereinafter as the Act) is certainly a very innovative and landmark legislation in respect of the duties and responsibilities of the directors. In this regime, the roles and duties of the directors attained significant expansion. The Act has introduced several measures which have the effect of considerably enhancing the duties and liabilities of directors and imposition of stringent penal provisions in case of breach of any Statutory provisions.
The structure of Board’s report is proposed to be changed under Companies Amendment Bill 2016 to a large extent by doing away with the provision of extract of annual return in the report, instead just providing a web address of the annual return uploaded on the website of the company, thus reducing the duplication of information to a larger extent.
The requirement of appointment of woman director emanates from Section 149 of Companies Act, 2013. SEBI has mandated that listed companies to appoint one woman director on its board. Companies can appoint any woman as director who is not otherwise disqualified for appointment as a director in terms of requirements of the Companies Act, 2013 and such a director can be either executive or non-executive or independent or non-independent director.
Provisions of section 196 of Companies Act 2013. ♣ A Company can appoint either a Managing Director or a Manager. Interpretation: No Company shall appoint or employ at the same time a Managing Director and a Manager. ♣ Appointment of a Managing Director shall be for a term which must be less than or equal to 5 years. Important Note: The Company may re- appoint them for next term in one year of current term.
The MCA21 portal requires some settings to be done on your computer. For smooth login, upload of eforms, signing of DSC or using any other MCA service available through the MCA21 portal, please make the following settings. 1. Java Settings in Control Panel 2. Java Settings in Internet Explorer 3. Java Settings in System Properties […]
As we know The size of the ROC e-form increases significantly after attaching the DSC , the Question which comes in our mind is What should be done to optimize the PDF file size? Here is the Solution to limit the increase in PDF file size while affixing the Digital Signature Certificate (DSC). Open any […]
