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 : A practical overview of the legal procedure, timelines, and filings required for buy-back of shares, highlighting compliance essen...
Company Law : A detailed compliance roadmap covering board meetings, audits, ROC filings, and director duties. It explains mandatory corporate g...
CA, CS, CMA : This update compiles key statutory deadlines across multiple laws for May 2026. It highlights filing requirements under income tax...
Company Law : The scheme allows defaulting companies to regularize filings by paying only 10% of late fees. Key takeaway: CCFS-2026 offers a lim...
Finance : This explains how the regulatory framework strictly governs drug quality, manufacturing, and liability. Courts have clarified that...
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 initiative addresses inefficiencies in the current filing system and proposes consolidation and automation. It highlights a sh...
Company Law : The MCA introduced a streamlined process for updating registered email IDs of companies and LLPs. The update ensures seamless rece...
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 : Supreme Court held that section 66 of the Companies Act, 2013 doesn’t require mandatory obtaining or circulating of formal valua...
Company Law : The ROC imposed penalties after a company extended its rights issue offer period following requests from promoter shareholders. Th...
Company Law : The appellate authority found that the company complied with private placement provisions by safeguarding funds in a separate acco...
Company Law : The issue involved alleged violation in handling share application money under company law. The ruling held that maintaining funds...
Company Law : The issue involved alleged misuse of share application funds under company law provisions. The authority ruled that compliance was...
Company Law : The issue involved non-filing of Form DIR-12 for appointment of a director. The authority held that failure to comply with Section...
The Union government, on Friday 12th December 2014 , introduced a Bill in the Lok Sabha to amend the Companies Act, 2013 to provide stringent punishment for illegal money pooling activities, among other things. The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2014, introduced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, proposes as many as 14 changes in various provisions of […]
Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 mandates every company above the given threshold levels to comply with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) provisions of the Act, and to disclose contents of its CSR policy in its Board’s Report. The penalty provision for non-compliance in this regard is prescribed under Section 134 (8) of the Act.
The number of companies registered during the first five months of this financial year (2014-15) was 21,260, as against 43,601 companies registered during the corresponding period of the previous year. Month-wise registration of companies is indicated in the Table below: Table Number of Companies Registered during first five months of 2013-14 and 2014-15, month-wise:
Gurminder Dhami INTRODUCTION General principle of law is that the decisions which are serious in nature or which involve significant business transactions are taken at Shareholders meetings. The scope of this decision making power has been increased by Companies Act, 2013. To enable shareholders to take apt and a well informed decision, it is necessary […]
Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2014 The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, today approved the introduction of the Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2014 in Parliament to make certain amendments in the Companies Act, 2013. The Companies Act, 2013 (Act) was notified on 29.8.2013. Out of 470 sections in the Act, 283 sections and […]
We are happy to inform that the Institute has brought out a publication namely ‘Referencer on Pre-certification of e-forms’ under the Companies Act, 2013. Pre-certification of e-forms is an important area of work for the Company Secretaries in practice. MCA has entrusted company secretaries with the responsibility of ensuring reliability of documents filed by companies […]
Every listed company shall have an internal auditor, who may be a Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant or any other Professional (i.e. Company Secretary). The scope, functioning, periodicity and methodology for conducting the internal audit shall be decided by Audit Committee in consultation with the internal auditor.
Section 2(91) of the Companies Act, 2013 defines turnover to mean the aggregate value of the realisation of amount made from the sale, supply or distribution of goods or on account of services rendered, or both, by the company during a financial year. This definition has used the words aggregate value of the realisation of amount made instead of aggregate value of the realisation of amount made or to be made
Expert Committee Constituted to Review E-Forms in order to Simplify Procedures for Stakeholders Under the Companies Act The Government has recently constituted an Expert Committee to review e-forms and other overall filing process, in order to simplify procedures for stakeholders. The Committee will (a) review the ‘e-forms’ notified under the Companies Act, 2013, (b) suggest […]
The legislature in their wisdom decided to plug loopholes of the erstwhile Companies Act, 1956 by inclusion of various new provisions to prevent frauds in the Companies Act, 2013 which were not a part of the erstwhile Companies Act. The noble intention behind bringing new preventive provisions is to bring more transparency in day to […]
