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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Three notifications under section 462 of the Companies Act, 2013[CA-13] have been issued after laying of such notifications in draft form before both houses of These notifications provide exemptions from the provisions of the CA-13 to respective companies (viz. Private companies, Government companies and charitable companies) as per recommendations of Companies Law Committee and other suggestions of stakeholders.
In this Flash editorial, the author referring amendment (i.e. in Rules, Sections, Circulars, Notifications) issued by Ministry of Corporate Affairs in the Month of June – July, 2017. This is article no. 246 of the series of editorials written by the author on corporate laws
Which companies are allowed to merge? Companies Act, 2013 does not prescribe any eligibility requirements of companies for the merger. However, it prescribes several questions which will be answered in further lines.
Ministry of corporate affairs came up with the new concept that incorporation of a new company with in one day. It is simplified procedure (SINGLE WINDOW FORM) to incorporate new company with Name reservation, DIN, PAN, TAN & CIN. In global scenario Now, It is easy way to startup business within single day.
(e) Any director who intends to participate in the meeting through electronic mode may intimate about such participation at the beginning of the calendar year and such declaration shall be valid for one year :
Entrenchment of Article of Association is required in case where we want to specifically enforce the applicability of certain actions, which cannot be overridden until and unless supported by supermajority or a referendum or in order to protect the interest of minority shareholders, where the consent of minority party is required to override the same.
Secretarial audit defined under Companies Act, 2013. It is Compliance of various applicable laws under companies act or any other act, rules, regulation and Procedure. Secretarial audit will be helpful to the Promoters, Independent & Non- Independent Directors, government authorities & regulators, Investors, stakeholders, Creditors and management of the company.
In this Flash editorial, the author begins by referring the provisions of section 248(1) of Companies Act, 2013 relating to Power of Registrar to remove name of company from register of companies and provisions of section 252 relating to REVIVAL OF COMPANIES STRUCK off from the record of the Registrar.
In this article, it is specifically discussed about the Revival/ Restoration of Struck off Companies under section 248 of the Companies Act (the Act) under Section 252 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with National Company Law Tribunals Rules, 2016 (As amended till 05-07-2017) by making an appeal to Tribunal.
In this article, we will highlight the recent amendments by Central Government read with section 469 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013) under the following heads issued by Ministry of Corporate Affairs through a notification dated 05th July 2017.
