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The Instruction Kit on RUN (Reserve Unique Name) Service has been prepared to enable you to access the Name Reservation Service with ease. This document provides references to law(s) governing the name reservation service and general instructions to provide details therein. The document also includes important points to be noted for successful submission.
Although Reserved Unique Name service has made incorporation easier and time saving but still it has its own pros and cons and professionals are still facing difficulties with this. Following are the pros and cons of newly introduced RUN Service.
Secretarial audit of corporate law compliances, listing agreement compliances, SEBI rules and regulations and other laws specifically applicable to the corporates.
Recently the Ministry of Corporate Affairs took up a bold initiative by introducing the RUN (Reserve Unique Name) service. Effective from 26th January, 2018. It is a simple and easy to use web service for reserving a name for a new company or for change of name for any existing company. Let’s check out the salient features of this newly introduced service:
There is no legal distinction between the powers and duties of executive directors and non-executive directors, the two play different roles on a board of directors. Even u/s 166 of Companies Act, 2013 duties of directors are prescribed which are equal for both executive and non-executive Director.
Any Company which intended to make any change to the Memorandum of Association (MOA) of its company, will have to comply with the provisions of Section- 13 of Companies Act, 2013 and any other applicable provisions of the Act and applicable rules.
MCA issued Companies (Incorporation) Amendment, Rules, 2018 vide notification dated 20.01.2018 these rules are effective from 26th January, 2018. By these amendment Rules MCA has substituted Rule 9 of Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014.
Provisions of Accounting Standard 22 or Indian Accounting Standard 12 relating to deferred tax asset or deferred tax liability shall not apply, for seven years with effect from the 1st April, 2017, to a Government company which:—
Notification No. S.O. 528(E) High Courts of Kerala, Orissa and Gauhati, hereby designates the following Courts mentioned in column (2) of the Table below as Special Courts for the purposes of providing speedy trial of offences punishable with imprisonment of two years or more under the said sub-section, namely:-
Some issued faced practically during Incorporation of Companies – by CA. Jeetendra Chaurasia
