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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Before starting a business, there are many things that run through our mind and one question that comes to everyone’s mind is whether to incorporate a private limited company or not? What are the benefits of private limited companies? Are there any disadvantages of a private limited company? Private Limited Company: A Private limited company is formed […]
A charge is stated in Section 2 (16) of the Companies Act, 2013 which expresses that charge could be – – an interest or lien; – created on the property or assets of a corporation; and – any of its undertakings or both as security and includes a mortgage Note: The financial institutions/banks do not lend their monies […]
Dividend is defined under Section 2(35) of the Companies Act, 2013 as “Dividend includes any Interim Dividend” Cambridge Dictionary defines “Dividend as a payment by a company of a part of its profit to the people who own shares (= units of ownership) in the company” In this article we will discuss the provisions of the Dividend as explained in the Chapter VIII- “Declaration and Payment of Dividend” of […]
Holding of annual general meetings by companies whose financial year has ended on 31st December, 2019. Overview Ministry of Corporate Affairs vide General Circular No. 18/2020 dated 21st day of April, 2020 has issued Clarification on Holding of annual general meetings by companies whose financial year has ended on 31st December, 2019. Key Highlights: Several […]
A Private company can be converted in to public company by complying with the following requirements: > Alteration of its articles thereby deleting the three restrictions of a private company, by passing a special resolution as per Section 14; and > Changing its name thereby deleting the word ‘Private’ from its name, by passing special […]
1. Every time question comes in our mind? Why the Govt creates the requirement registered office for my business? -Registered office of the company is the official address shown in the records of the Government organisation and its own. It will be beneficial for the Corporate/government for following purpose: CORPORATE a. Conduct day to day […]
Bombay High Court had upheld the constitutional validity of Section 140(5) of the Companies Act but held that it would not apply to auditors who had resigned and also squashed the prosecution or the criminal complaints filed by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) against the erstwhile auditors of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS) and its non-bank lending arm for alleged collusion in falsifying books terming it to be ‘ bad in law’.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 469 read with section 230 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013), the Central Government hereby made the following rules, to amend the Companies (Compromises, Arrangements and Amalgamations) Rules, 2016, namely, ‘the Companies (Compromises, Arrangements and Amalgamations) Amendment Rules, 2020‘ effective […]
A Company shall have a registered office within 30 days of its incorporation. It is the official address of the company incorporated under the provision of Companies act 2013 or under any previous company law. The procedure to change the registered office of the Company from one State or union territory does not only involve change […]
Introduction: -Section 185 of CA, 2013 was notified on September 12, 2013 and came into force on the same date replacing the old section 295 of the Companies Act, 1956 which provides for loans to directors. -With the recommendation of the Company Law Committee (CLC) the said section got substituted via Companies (Amendment) Act, 2017 […]
