The Companies Act 2013 is a crucial legislation in India governing the incorporation, functioning, and management of companies. Learn about the key provisions, compliance requirements, and legal framework under the Companies Act 2013.
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Ministry of Corporate Affairs published a Draft Notification on 24th June, 2014 which, by far if notified, will be of paramount importance and will restore the heydays for private companies. Clearing the air with respect to the same, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs published a draft notification on the inapplicability/ partial/modified applicability of certain provisions of Companies Act, 2013 to the Private Companies in exercise of powers under section 462 of Companies Act, 2013 which states as under:
Companies have also sought clarity about permitting free of cost inspection of records under rule 14(2) and rule 16 of the rules cited above and till a fee is prescribed for the purpose in the Articles. It is clarified that until the requisite fee is specified by companies, inspections could be allowed without levy of fee.
1. (1) These rules may be called the Companies (Management and Administration) Amendment Rules, 2014. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
The Companies Act, 2013 lays down number of provision as regards the Independent Directors compulsorily to be appointed on the Board of Listed & certain Public Companies meeting the criteria as prescribed by the Rules.
Record date is the date fixed for taking record of shareholders or debenture holders of the Company. An investor must be a shareholder/ debenture holder on this particular date in order to be eligible to participate in a particular corporate action.
Acknowledging industry’s concerns in the implementation of the Companies Act, 2013, Shri Naved Masood, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs said, The law fortunately delegates considerable power to the Government to make rules, through which many of the issues highlighted by the industry can be addressed.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been in existence for a long time and is almost as old as civilization. It is based on the Gandhian Principle of trusteeship concept whereby business houses are looked upon as trustees of the resources they draw from society and thus are expected to return them back manifold.
Amounts which are not considered as deposits (Rule 2 of Companies (Acceptance of Deposits) Rules, 2014) – any amount received from the Central Government or a State Government, or any amount received from any other source whose repayment is guaranteed by the Central Government or a State Government, or any amount received from a local authority, or any amount received from a statutory authority constituted under an Act of Parliament or a State Legislature.
Where loan/deposits were falling in the definition of Deposits under Companies (Acceptance of Deposits) Rules, 1975 on 31.03.2014 and now the loan/deposits also falls in the definition of deposits under Companies (Acceptance of Deposits) Rules, 2014.
As per Section 74(1) of Companies Act, 2013 every Company is required to file Return of Deposits in Form DPT -4 along with Auditor’s Certificate thereon within three months from the commencement of Companies Act, 2013 i.e. on or before 30th June 2014.
