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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A special resolution is a resolution where the intention to propose the resolution as special resolution is specified and at-least 3/4th votes required for passing the resolution. Special resolutions are required for important decisions, such as for altering the terms of the articles of association or the memorandum of association, or making some other major or fundamental changes in an organization.
Registrar of Companies (ROCs) were directed to examine documents under Section 234 of the Companies Act, 1956 in the year 2010. ROCs examined documents of the companies located within their jurisdictions and certain violations of the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 were noticed in some cases as per details in Annexure.
Of late, the Information Technology made it practicable to have all kinds of meetings through Video Conferencing. Meetings through Video conferencing has telescoped the world and has made it look smaller than ever before. Now throughout the world, every Tom, Dick, and Harry is approachable just at a click of the mouse.
Companies Act mandates every company to keep its books of accounts and other related books, papers along with financial statements at the Registered Office of the company. This provision has been given under section 128 of the companies act, 2013. But in many cases, the registered office of the company is being situated a place […]
Section 58(4) of the LLP Act, 2008, provides that notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, on and from the date of registration specified in the certificate of registration issued under the Third Schedule— (a) there shall be a limited liability partnership by the name specified in the certificate of registration registered under this Act;
(A). Dormant Company [Section 455]: (1) Where a company is formed and registered under this Act for a future project or to hold an asset or intellectual property and has no significant accounting transaction, such a company or an inactive company may make an application to the Registrar in such manner as may be prescribed for obtaining the status of a dormant company.
For ease of doing business, Ministry of Corporate Affairs has introduced a simplified Incorporation Form-INC-29. The form offers a number of advantages over traditional incorporation forms in terms of reduced number of procedures, time taken and the cost involved in getting approval.
Section 118 of the Act extensibly refers to minutes of proceedings of general meetings and of Board and other meetings, where the Chairman has to conduct the meeting of its Board of Directors and the power of Chairman on inclusion of matters in minutes of meeting.
Features of Private Limited Company -Separate Legal Status -Capacity to borrow -Easy Transfer of shares -Minimum number of Members : 2 ; Maximum number of Members : 200 -Minimum Capital : Nil {omitted by Companies (Amendment) Act, 2015} -Limited Liability -Minimum number of Directors : 2 -Foreign investment permitted (subject to applicable Sectoral Cap as […]
A company desiring to change its name may do so in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 read with Section 4 of the Act by passing Special Resolution and the name approved by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) on prescribed application. The power of the Central Government under Section 13(2) to approve change in name has been delegated to Registrar of Companies (ROC).
