Company Law
- Abbreviations
- Acceptance of Deposits [Ch. V]
- Accounts of companies [Ch. IX]
- Appointment and Remuneration to Managerial Personnel [Ch. XIII]
- Appointment and qualification of directors [Ch. XI]
- Audit and Auditors [Ch. X]
- Buy-back of Securities
- Corporate Social Responsibility [S. 135]
- Declaration and Payment of Dividend [Ch. IX]
- Exemptions to a private company under the Companies Act 2013 - at a glance
- Incorporation of company [Ch. II]
- Management and Administration [Ch. VII]
- Miscellaneous
- Powers of the Board [Ch. XII]
- Registration of charges [Ch. VI]
- Share capital, Debentures and Issue of securities [Ch. III, IV]
- Application of premium received on issue of shares [S. 52]
- Debentures [S. 71]
- Dematerialisation of securities [R.9, 9A]
- Issue and Redemption of Preference Shares [S. 55]
- Issue of Sweat Equity Shares [S. 54]
- Kinds of share capital [S. 43] and their voting rights [S. 47(1)]
- Power to purchase its own shares (i.e. buy-back of securities) [S. 68, R. 17]
- Private Placement vis-à-vis Preferential Offer
- Private Placement [S. 42, R.14]
- Prohibition on Issue of shares at Discount [S. 53]
- Publication of Authorised, Subscribed and paid-up capital [S. 60]
- Reduction of share capital [S. 66]
- Restrictions on purchase by the Co or giving of loans by it for purchase of its shares [S. 67]
- Types of Issue of Securities – an overview
- Some of the key SEBI compliances for listed entities
- Conditions to be complied with upon resignation of the statutory auditor of a listed entity / material subsidiary w.r.t. limited review / audit report [SEBI CIRCULAR CIR/CFD/CMD1/114/2019 dated 18-Oct-2019]
- Corporate Governance under LODR [Ch. III of LODR]
- Illustrative Compliance calendar under LODR for Entities which has listed its specified securities
- Publishing Quarterly/Half Yearly/Annual Results by Listed Companies under LODR
- Tables
- Contents of BoD report [S. 134(3), (3A), (5) & R.8, 8A]
- Criteria under the Co Act 2013 triggering certain compliances – At a Glance
- e Forms to be filed with RoC under Co Act 2013
- Fees to be paid to Registrar of Companies
- Illustrative list of matters requiring Special Resolution as per Co Act 2013
- Illustrative list of punishment for non-compliance/default under Co Act 2013
- Illustrative list of Statutory Registers and other records to be prepared or maintained under Co Act 2013
- Types of companies [Ch. I]
Illustrative Compliance calendar under LODR for Entities which has listed its 37specified securities {Please also refer Special measures incl. Key CoVID 19 effects}
Regulation |
Filings/submissions/intimations/approval from SEs |
Time line |
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Quarterly Compliance |
from the end of the quarter |
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13(3) |
Statement of Grievance Redressal (containing inter alia, no. of complaints pending at the beginning, received, resolved and pending at the end of the quarter) |
Within 21 days |
27(2) |
Corporate Governance compliance Report incl. material RPTs |
Within 15 days |
31(1) |
Statement showing holding of securities and shareholding pattern separately for each class of securities |
Within 21 days |
32(1) |
Statement of 38deviation(s) or 39category wise variation(s) for public issue, rights issue, preferential issue etc. Till the issue proceeds have been fully utilised or the purpose for which these proceeds were raised has been achieved |
Not specified |
33(3)(a) |
Quarterly Financial Results along with Limited review report
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Within 45 days Except for i.e., March ⟶ within 60 days audited results to be published |
Reconciliation of share capital audit report |
Within 30 days |
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Half Yearly Compliance |
From end of each half of FY |
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7(3) |
A compliance certificate that all activities share transfer facility are maintained either in house or by Registrar to an issue and share transfer agent registered with SEBI |
Within 1 month |
40(9) |
CS certificate that all certificates have been issued within 30 days of the date of lodgement for transfer, sub-division, consolidation, renewal, exchange or endorsement of calls/allotment monies |
Within 1 month |
Annual Compliance |
From the end of FY |
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24A |
Secretarial Compliance report |
Within 60 days |
33(3)(d) |
Financial Results along with Auditor’s Report |
Within 60 days |
34(1) |
Annual Report |
on or before its dispatch to SH |
Event Based Compliance |
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7(5) |
Intimation of appointment of Share Transfer Agent |
Within 7 days of Agreement with STA |
28(1) |
Obtain ‘in-principle’ approval of recognized stock exchange(s) |
Before issuing securities |
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Prior intimation of BM for : |
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• Buyback, Dividend, Raising of Funds, Voluntary Delisting etc |
At least 2 working days in advance |
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• Financial Results |
At least 5 working days in advance |
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• alteration in form/nature of listed securities etc. OR alteration i.r.o. redeemable shares or of debentures or bonds |
At least 11 working days in advance |
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30 (6) |
Disclosure of any material events or information |
ASAP not later than 24 hours from the occurrence of event or information |
30 (6) |
Disclosure of outcome of BMs |
within 30 minutes of closure of BM |
31(1)(a) |
Shareholding Pattern prior to listing of securities |
1 day prior to listing of securities |
31(1)(c) |
Shareholding Pattern in case of capital restructuring |
Within 10 days of any capital restructuring resulting in change > 2% in paid-up capital |
37(2) |
Draft Scheme of arrangement |
Obtain NoC from SEs before filing the scheme with any court or tribunal |
39(3) |
Information re: Loss of share certificates and issue of the duplicate certificates |
Within 2 days of getting information |
44(3) |
Voting Results |
Within 48 hours of conclusion of General Meeting |
45(3) |
Approval for change in name of the Co |
On receipt of name confirmation from RoC, but before filing application with RoC |
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Maintain a functional website |
- CANNOT: (i) be incorporated/converted into a S.8 Co; (ii) carry out NBFI activities; (iii) voluntarily convert into any other kind of Co up to 2 years from the date of incorporation. But if thresholds of paid-up share capital of ₹ 50 lakhs & average annual turnover of ₹ 2 crores is exceeded, then it has to compulsorily convert.
- Appearing on MCA portal
- as mentioned in a webinar jointly conducted by ICSI & MCA
- Effective 26-Jan-18 till 18-Mar-19, registration fees was not payable in respect of incorporation of NewCo with nominal capital of < ₹ 10 lakhs
- Similar S.11 was omitted by the Co (Amend) Act, 2015 effective. 29-May-2015; however reintroduced by the Co (Amend) Ordinances effective 2-Nov-2018
- Notified effective 16-Oct-2019
- “Start-up Co” means a Pvt Co incorporated under the Co Act 2013/Co Act 1956 and recognised as such in accordance with notification G.S.R. 180(E) dtd 17-Feb-2016 issued by DIPP, Ministry of Commerce & Industry
- Specified IFSC Public Co means an unlisted Public Co licensed to operate by RBI/SEBI/IRDA from the International Financial Services Centre located in an approved multi services Special Economic Zone set-up under SEZ Act 2005 read with the SEZ Rules 2006
- Conditions specified in S. 73(2)(a) to (e) not applicable to a Pvt Co which accepts from its members monies NOT > 100% of (paid up share capital + free reserves + securities premium a/c) OR fulfills conditions mentioned at 4 above. All such entities have to file the details of monies accepted with RoC.
- If any individual, or individuals acting through any person or trust, act with a common intent or purpose of exercising any rights or entitlements, or exercising control or significant influence over a Reporting Co, pursuant to an agreement or understanding, formal or informal, such individual, or individuals, acting through any person or trust, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be ‘acting together’ [Expl. V]
- “Significant influence or control” means the power to participate, directly or indirectly, in the financial or operating policy decisions of the Reporting Co but is not control or joint control of those policies [R.2(1)(i)]
- ‘majority stake’ means (i) holding > ½ of the equity share capital in the body corporate; or (ii) holding > ½ of the voting rights in the body corporate; or (iii) having the right to receive or participate in > ½ of the distributable dividend or any other distribution of the body corporate [R.2(1)(d)]
- ‘Partnership entity’ means a partnership firm registered under the Indian Partnership Act 1932 or LLP under LLP Act 2008 [R.2(1)(e)]
- Last date for filing Form No. BEN 2 had been extended to 31-Mar-2020 and consequently the date of filing Form No. BEN 1 may be construed accordingly.
- Amended by Co Amend Act 2019 : To be effective from the date as may be notified by CG
- Notified by Co Amend Ordinance 2019 on 12-Jan-2019, but deemed to be Effective 2-Nov-2018
- Amended by Co Amend Act 2019 : To be effective from the date as may be notified by CG: debarring the member or the firm from being appointed as an auditor/internal auditor/undertaking any audit in respect of FS or internal audit of the functions and activities of any Co or body corporate; or performing any valuation as provided u/s 247 for minimum 6 months, maximum 10 years
- * “directly or indirectly” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Explanation to S. 144, given at Sr. no. 7 below
- ”wrongful manner” means if the DIN is obtained on the strength of documents which are not legally valid or incomplete documents are furnished or on suppression of material information or on the basis of wrong certification or by making misleading or false information or by misrepresentation [Expl (i) to R.11(1)]
- ”fraudulent means” means if the DIN is obtained with an intent to deceive any other person or any authority including CG [Expl (ii) to R.11(1)]
- “person” (including a “person in whom any of the director of a Co is interested”) excluding any individual who is in the employment of the Co
- “vanishing company” means a Co, registered under Co Act 2013 or previous company law or any other law for the time being in force and listed with SE which has failed to file its returns with the RoC and SE for a consecutive period of 2 years, and is not maintaining its registered office at the address notified with the RoC or SE and none of its directors are traceable.
- “inactive company” means a company which has not been carrying on any business or operation, or has not made any significant accounting transaction during the last 2 FYs, or has not filed financial statements and annual returns during the last 2 FYs
- Please refer Page No. 64 of “Allied Laws” for definition of Micro/Small Enterprise
- Effective 18-Nov-2019
- Defined at I. Types of companies [Ch.I]
- Effective 1-Dec-2020
- As per the Co (INC) Rules amended on 6-Mar-19, no registration fees payable on Co being incorporated with AuthorisedSh Cap up to ₹ 15 lakh effective 18-Mar-19. However corresponding amendment is not available in the Co (Regn Offices & Fees) Rules.
- Fee applicable at the time of actual filing shall be payable
- Notified on 30-Apr-2019 videG.S.R. 340(E)
- During FY 2018-2019, Form DIR-3 KYC filed from 21.09.2018 to 05.10.2018 ⟶fees of ₹ 500 was applicable
- Amended by Co Amend Act 2019 : To be effective from the date as may be notified by CG
- -MD & CFO, if any,
- in the absence of MD & CFO, any other director in-charge (by BoD) of compliance
- in the absence of any such director-in-charge, ALL directors of the Co
- Notification G.S.R. 464(E) Dated 5-Jun-15
- w.e.f. 1.4.2019.
- Reg. 2(k) of ICDR:-“convertible security” means a security which is convertible into or exchangeable with equity shares of the issuer at a later date, with or without the option of the holder of the security and includes convertible debt instrument and convertible preference shares;
- Reg. 2(1)(zl) ‘specified securities’ means ‘equity shares’ and ‘convertible securities’ as defined under Reg. 1(1)(zj) of SEBI ICDR [Reg. 2(k) of ICDR:- “convertible security” means a security which is convertible into or exchangeable with equity shares of the issuer at a later date, with or without the option of the holder of the security and includes convertible debt instrument and convertible preference shares]
- Deviations, if any, in the use of proceeds from the objects stated in the offer document or explanatory statement to the notice for the general meeting
- (capital expenditure, sales and marketing, working capital etc). between projected utilisation of funds made by it in its offer document or explanatory statement to the notice for the general meeting, as applicable and the actual utilisation of funds