PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION IN CASES OF
FRIVOLOUS OR VEXATIOUS PROSECUTION.
(1) In respect of any case instituted
upon the complaint of a shareholder against the company or any
officer thereof in pursuance of section 621, the provisions of
section 250 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898) 972
, shall not apply; and the following provisions shall apply instead.
(2) If the Magistrate by whom any such
case is heard discharges or acquits all or any of the accused, and
is of opinion that the accusation against them or any of them was
false and either frivolous or vexations, the Magistrate may, by his
order of discharge or acquittal, if the shareholder upon whose
complaint the accusation was made is present, call upon him
forthwith to show cause why he should not pay compensation to such
accused, or to each or any of such accused when there is more than
one, or if such shareholder is not present, direct the issue of a
summons to him to appear and show cause as aforesaid.
(3) The Magistrate shall record and
consider any cause which such shareholder may show; and if the
Magistrate is satisfied that the accusation was false and either
frivolous or vexatious, he may, for reasons to be recorded, direct
that compensation to such amount as he may determine be paid by such
shareholder to the accused or to each or any of them, not exceeding
one thousand rupees in all.
(4) The Magistrate may, by the order
directing payment of the compensation under sub-section (3), further
order that, in default of payment, the shareholder ordered to pay
such compensation shall suffer simple imprisonment for a term not
exceeding two months.
(5) When any person is imprison under
sub-section (4), the provisions of sections 68 and 69 of the Indian
Penal Code (45 of 1860) shall, so far as may be, apply.
(6) No person who has been directed to
pay compensation under this section shall, by reason of such order,
be exempted from any civil or criminal liability in respect of the
complaint made by him :
Provided that any amount paid to an
accused person under this section shall be taken into account in
awarding compensation to such person in any subsequent civil suit
relating to the same matter.
(7) A complainant who has been ordered to
pay compensation under sub-section (3) by a Magistrate may appeal
from the order, in so far as it relates to the payment of
compensation, as if such complainant had been convicted on a trial
held by such Magistrate.
(8) Where an order for payment of
compensation to an accused person is made, the compensation shall
not be paid to him before the period allowed for the presentation of
the appeal under sub-section (7) has elapsed; or, if an appeal is
presented, before the appeal has been decided.
Section 626
APPLICATION OF FINES.
The Court imposing any fine under this
Act may direct that the whole or any part thereof shall be applied
in or towards payment of the costs of the proceedings, or in or
towards the rewarding of the person on whose information or at whose
instance the fine is recovered.
Section 628
PENALTY FOR FALSE STATEMENTS.
If in any return, report, certificate,
balance sheet, prospectus, statement or other document required by
or for the purposes of any of the provisions of this Act, any person
makes a statement -
(a) which is false in any material
particular, knowing it to be false; or
(b) which omits any material fact knowing
it to be material; he shall, save as otherwise expressly provided in
this Act, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to two years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Section 629
PENALTY FOR FALSE EVIDENCE.
If any person intentionally gives false
evidence -
(a) upon any examination upon oath or
solemn affirmation, authorised under this Act; or
(b) in any affidavit, deposition or
solemn affirmation, in or about the winding up of any company under
this Act, or otherwise in or about any matter arising under this
Act; he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Section 629A
PENALTY WHERE NO SPECIFIC PENALTY IS
PROVIDED ELSEWHERE IN THE ACT.
If a company or any other person
contravenes any provision of this Act for which no punishment is
provided elsewhere in this Act or any condition, limitation or
restriction subject to which may approval, sanction, consent,
confirmation, recognition, direction or exemption in relation to any
matter has been accorded, given or granted, the company and every
officer of the company who is in default or such other person shall
be punishable with fine which may extent to five hundred rupees, and
where the contravention is a continuing one, with a further fine
which may extend to fifty rupees for every day after the first
during which the contravention continues.
Section 630
PENALTY FOR WRONGFUL WITHHOLDING OF
PROPERTY.
(1) If any officer or employee of a
company -
(a) wrongfully obtains possession of any
property of a company; or
(b) having any such property in his
possession, wrongfully withholds it or knowingly applies it to
purposes other than those expressed or directed in the articles and
authorised by this Act : he shall, on the complaint of the company
or any creditor or contributory thereof, be punishable with fine
which extend to one thousand rupees.
(2) The Court trying the offence may also
order such officer or employee to deliver up or refund, within a
time to be fixed by the Court, any such property wrongfully obtained
or wrongfully withheld or knowingly misapplied, or in default, to
suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years.
Section 631
PENALTY FOR IMPROPER USE OF WORDS
"LIMITED" AND "PRIVATE LIMITED".
If any person or persons trade or carry
on business under any name or title of which the word "Limited" or
the words "Private Limited", or any contraction or limitation
thereof is or are the last word of words, that person or each of
those persons shall, unless duly incorporated with limited
liability, or unless duly incorporated as a private company with
limited liability, as the case may be, be punishable with fine which
may extend to fifty rupees for every day upon which that name or
title has been used.
Section 632
POWER TO REQUIRE LIMITED COMPANY TO GIVE
SECURITY FOR COSTS.
Where a limited company is plaintiff or
petitioner in any suit or other legal proceeding, any Court having
jurisdiction in the matter may, if there is reason to believe that
the company will be unable to pay the costs of the defendant if he
is successful in his defence, require sufficient security to be
given for those costs, and may stay all proceedings until the
security is given.
Section 633
POWER OF COURT TO GRANT RELIEF IN CERTAIN
CASES.
(1) If in any proceeding for negligence,
default, breach of duty, misfeasance or breach of trust against an
officer of a company, it appears to the Court hearing the case that
he is or may be liable in respect of the negligence, default, breach
of duty, misfeasance or breach of trust, but that he has acted
honestly and reasonably, and that having regard to all the
circumstances of the case, including those connected with his
appointment, he ought fairly to be excused, the Court may relieve
him, either wholly or partly, from his liability on such terms as it
may think fit :
Provided that in a criminal proceeding
under this sub-section, theCourt shall have no power to grant relief
from any civil liability which may attach to an officer in respect
of such negligence, default, breach of duty, misfeasance or breach
of trust.
(2) Where any such officer has reason to
apprehend that any claim will or might be made against him in
respect of any negligence, default, breach of duty, misfeasance or
breach of trust, he may apply to the High Court for relief and the
High Court on any such application shall have the same power to
relieve him as it would have had if it had been a Court before which
a proceedings against that officer for negligence, default, breach
of duty, misfeasance or breach of trust had been brought under
sub-section (1).
(3) No Court shall grant any relief to
any officer under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) unless it has,
by notice served in the manner specified by it, required the
Registrar and such other person, if any, as it thinks necessary, to
show cause why such relief should not be granted.
Section 634
ENFORCEMENT OF ORDERS OF COURTS.
Any order made by a Court under this Act
may be enforced in the same manner as a decree made by the Court in
a suit pending therein.
Section 634A
ENFORCEMENT OF ORDERS OF COMPANY LAW
BOARD.
Any order made by the Company Law Board
may be enforced by that Board in the same manner as if it were a
decree made by a Court in a suit pending therein, and it shall be
lawful for that Board to send, in the case of its inability to
execute such order, to the Court within the local limits of whose
jurisdiction, -
(a) in the case of an order against a
company, the registered office of the company is situated, or
(b) in the case of an order against any
other person, the person concerned voluntarily resides, or carries
on business or personally works for gain.
Section 635
ENFORCEMENT OF ORDERS OF ONE COURT BY
OTHER COURTS.
(1) Where any order made by one Court is
required to be enforced by another Court, a certified copy of the
order shall be produced to the proper officer of the Court required
to enforce the order.
(2) The production of such certified copy
shall be sufficient evidence of the order.
(3) Upon the production of such certified
copy, the Court shall take the requisite steps for enforcing the
order, in the same manner as if it had been made by itself.
(4) Where any order made by the Company
Law Board is required to be enforced by a Court, a certified copy of
the order shall be produced to the proper officer of the Court
required to enforce the order and the provisions of sub-sections (2)
and (3) shall, as far as may be, apply to every such order in the
same manner and to the same extent as they apply to an order made by
a Court.
Section 635A
PROTECTION OF ACTS DONE IN GOOD FAITH.
No suit, prosecution or other legal
proceeding shall lie against the Government or any officer of
Government or any other person in respect of anything which is in
good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act or
any rules or orders made thereunder, or in respect of the
publication by or under the authority of the Government or such
officer of any report, paper or proceedings
Section 635AA
NON-DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION IN CERTAIN
CASES.
Notwithstanding anything contained in any
other law for the time being in force, the Registrar, any officer of
Government or any other person shall not be compelled to disclose to
any Court, Tribunal or other authority whence he got any information
which -
(a) has led the Central Government to
direct a special audit under section 233A or to order an
investigation under section 235, 237, 247, 248 or 249; or
(b) is or has been material or relevant
in connection with such special audit or investigation.
Section 635B
PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEES DURING
INVESTIGATION BY INSPECTOR OR PENDENCY OF PROCEEDING BEFORE COURT IN
CERTAIN CASES.
(1) If -
(a) during the course of any
investigation of the affairs and other matters of or relating to a
company, body or person under section 235, section 237 or section
239, or of the membership and other matters of or relating to a
company, or the ownership of shares in or debentures of a company or
body corporate, or the affairs and other matters of or relating to a
company, body or person under section 247, section 248 or section
249; or
(b) during the pendency of any proceeding
against any person concerned in the conduct and management of the
affairs of the company under Chapter IVA of part VI, such company,
body or person proposes -
(i) to discharge, or
(ii) to punish, whether by dismissal,
removal, reduction in rank or otherwise, any employee, the company,
body or person, as the case may be, shall send by post to the
Company Law Board previous intimation in writing of the action
proposed against the employee and if the Company Law Board has any
objection to the action proposed, it shall sent by post notice
thereof in writing to the company, body or person concerned.
(2) If the company, body or person
concerned does not receive within thirty days of the sending of the
previous intimation of the action proposed against the employee, any
notice of the objection from the Company Law Board, then and only
then, the company, body or person concerned may proceed to take
against the employee the action proposed.
(3) If the company, body or person
concerned is dissatisfied with the objection raised by the Company
Law Board, it may, within thirty days of the receipt of the notice
of the objection, prefer and appeal to the Court in the prescribed
manner no payment of the prescribed fee.
(4) The decision of the Court on such
appeal shall be final and be binding on the Company Law Board and on
the company, body or person concerned.
(5) For the removal of doubt, it is
hereby declared that the provisions of this section shall have
effect without prejudice to the provisions of any other law for the
time being in force.
Section 636
REDUCTION OF FEES, CHARGES, ETC., PAYABLE
TO COMPANY.
(1) A company which is entitled to any
specified fee, charge or other sum by virtue of any provision
contained in this Act or in its articles, may reduce the amount
thereof to such extent as it thinks fit; and thereupon such
provision shall, so long as the reduction is in force, have effect
as if the reduced amount had been substituted for the fee, charge or
sum specified in such provision.
(2) Any reduction made under sub-section
(1) may, at any time, be cancelled or varied by the company.
Section 637
DELEGATION BY CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OF ITS
POWERS AND FUNCTIONS UNDER ACT.
(1) The Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, and subject to such
conditions, restrictions and limitations as may be specified
therein, delegate any of its powers or functions under this Act
(other than the power to appoint a person as public trustee under
section 153A and the power to make rules), to such authority or
officer as may be specified in the notification.
(2) The powers and functions which cannot
be delegated under sub-section (1) are those conferred by or
mentioned in the following provisions of this Act, namely, sections
10, 81(4), 211(3) and (4), 212, 213, 235, 237, 239, 241, 242, 243,
244, 245, 247, 248, 249, 250, 259, 268, 269, 274(2), 295, 300, 310,
311, 349, 372, 396, 399(4) and (5), 401, 408, 410, 411(b), 448, 609,
613, 620, 638, 641 and 642.
(3) A copy of every notification issued
under sub-section (1) shall, as soon as may be after it is issued,
be placed before both Houses of Parliament.
Section 637A
POWER OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OR COMPANY
LAW BOARD TO ACCORD APPROVAL, ETC., SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS AND TO
PRESCRIBE FEES ON APPLICATIONS.
(1) Where the Central Government or
Company Law Board is required or authorised by any provision of this
Act, -
(a) to accord approval, sanction,
consent, confirmation or recognition to or in relation to, any
matter;
(b) to give any direction in relation to
any matter; or
(c) to grant any exemption in relation to
any matter, then, in the absence of anything to the contrary
contained in such or any other provision of this Act, the Central
Government or Company Law Board may accord, give or grant such
approval, sanction, consent, confirmation, recognition, direction or
exemption, subject to such conditions, limitations or restrictions
as it may think fit to impose and may, in the case of contravention
of any such condition, limitation or restriction, rescind or
withdraw such approval, sanction, consent, confirmation,
recognition, direction or exemption.
(2) Save as otherwise expressly provided
in this Act, every application which may be, or is required to be,
made to the Central Government or Company Law Board under any
provision of this Act -
(a) in respect of any approval, sanction,
consent, confirmation or recognition to be accorded by that
Government or Board to, or in relation to, any matter; or
(b) in respect of any direction or
exemption to be given or granted by that Government or Board in
relation to any matter; or
(c) in respect of any other matter, shall
be accompanied by such fee as may be prescribed :
POWER OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TO FIX A
LIMIT WITH REGARD TO REMUNERATION.
Notwithstanding anything contained in
section 198, section 309 or section 637A, the Central Government
may, while according its approval under section 269, to any
appointment or to any remuneration under section 309, section 310,
section 311 or section 387, fix the remuneration of the persons so
appointed or the remuneration, as the case may be, within the limits
specified in this Act, at such amount or percentage of profits of
the company, as it may deemed fit and while fixing the remuneration,
the Central Government shall have regard to -
(a) the financial position of the
company;
(b) the remuneration or commission drawn
by the individual concerned in any other capacity, including his
capacity as a sole selling agent;
(c) the remuneration or commission drawn
by him from any other company;
(d) professional qualifications and
experience of the individual concerned,
(e) public policy relating to the removal
of disparities in income.
Section 637B
CONDONATION OF DELAYS IN CERTAIN CASES.
Notwithstanding anything contained in
this Act, -
(a) where any application required to be
made to the Central Government under any provision of this Act in
respect of any matter is not made within the time specified therein,
that Government may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, condone
the delay;
(b) where any document required to be
filed with the Registrar under any provision of this Act is not
filed within the time specified therein, the Central Government may,
for reasons to be recorded in writing, condone the delay.
Section 638
ANNUAL REPORT BY CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.
The Central Government shall cause a
general annual report on the working and administration of this Act
to be prepared and laid before both Houses of Parliament, within one
year of the close of the year to which the report relates.
Section 639
ANNUAL REPORTS ON GOVERNMENT COMPANIES TO
BE PLACED BEFORE PARLIAMENT. ETC. - OMITTED BY THE COMPANIES
(AMENDMENT) ACT, 1960.
The section and heading above it, viz.,
"Annual reports on Government companies" omitted by the Companies
(Amendment) Act, 1960.
Section 640
VALIDATION OF REGISTRATION OF FIRMS AS
MEMBERS OF CHARITABLE AND OTHER COMPANIES.
Any firm which stood registered at the
commencement of this Act, as a member of any association or company
licensed under section 26 of the Indian Companies Act, 1913 (7 of
1913), shall be deemed to have been validly so registered with
effect on and from the date of its registration.
Section 640A
EXCLUSION OF TIME REQUIRED IN OBTAINING
COPIES OF ORDERS OF COURTS OR THE COMPANY LAW BOARD .
Except as expressly provided in this
behalf elsewhere in this Act, where by any provision of this Act,
any order of the Court or the Company Law Board is required to be
filed with the Registrar, or a company or any other person within a
period specified therein, then, in computing that period, the time
taken in drawing up the order and in obtaining a copy thereof shall
be excluded.
Section 640B
FORMS OF, AND PROCEDURE IN RELATION TO,
CERTAIN APPLICATIONS.
(1) Every application made to the Central
Government under section 259, 268, 269, 310, 311, 346 or 352 shall
be in such form as may be prescribed.
(2)(a) Before any application is made by
a company to the Central Government under any of the sections
aforesaid, there shall be issued by or on behalf of the company a
general notice to the members thereof, indicating the nature of the
application proposed to be made.
(b) Such notice shall be published at
least once in a newspaper in the principal language of the district
in which the registered office of the company is situate and
circulating in that district and at least once in English in an
English newspaper circulating in that district.
(c) Copies of the notices, together with
a certificate by the company as to the due publication thereof,
shall be attached to the application.
Section 641
POWER TO ALTER SCHEDULES.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this
section, the CentralGovernment may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, alter any of the regulations, rules, tables, forms and
other provisions contained in any of the Schedules to this Act,
except Schedules XI and XII.
(2) Any alteration notified under
sub-section (1) shall have effect as if enacted in this Act and
shall come into force on the date of the notification, unless the
notification otherwise directs :
Provided that no such alteration in Table
A of Schedule I shall apply to any company registered before the
date of such alteration.
(3) Every alteration made by the Central
Government under sub-section (1) shall be laid as soon as may be
after it is made before each House of Parliament while it is in
session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in
one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before
the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the
successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any
modification in the alteration, or both Houses agree that the
alteration should not be made, the alteration shall thereafter have
effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case
may be, so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall
be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done in
pursuance of that alteration.
Section 642
POWER OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TO MAKE
RULES.
(1) In addition to the powers conferred
by section 641, the Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, make rules -
(a) for all or any of the matters which
by this Act are to be, or may be, prescribed by the Central
Government; and
(b) generally to carry out the purposes
of this Act.
(2) Any rule made under sub-section (1)
may provide that a contravention thereof shall be punishable with
fine which may extend to five hundred rupees and where the
contravention is a continuing one, with a further fine which may
extend to fifty rupees for every day after the first during which
such contravention continues.
(3) Every rule made by the Central
Government under sub-section (1) shall be laid as soon as may be
after it is made before each House of Parliament while it is in
session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in
one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before
the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the
successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any
modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should
not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such
modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so, however,
that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice
to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.
(4) Every regulation made by the
Securities and Exchange Board of India under this Act shall be laid,
as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament,
while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may
be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions,
and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the
session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in
making any modification in the regulation or both Houses agree that
the regulation should not be made, the regulation shall thereafter
have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the
case may be; so however, that any such modification or annulment
shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously
done under that regulation.
Section 643
POWER OF SUPREME COURT TO MAKE RULES.
(1) The Supreme Court, after consulting
the High Courts, -
(a) shall make rules providing for all
matters relating to the winding up of companies which, by this Act,
are to be prescribed; and may make rules providing for all such
matters as may be prescribed, except those reserved to the Central
Government by sub-section (5) of section 503, sub-section (3) of
section 550, section 552 and sub-section (3) of section 555 ; and
(b) may make rules consistent with the
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), -
(i) as to the
mode of proceedings to be had for winding up a company in High
Courts and in Courts subordinate thereto;
(ii) for the
voluntary winding up of companies, whether by members or by
creditors;
(iii) for the
holding of meetings of creditors and members in connection with
proceedings under section 391;
(iv) for giving
effect to the provisions of this Act as to the reduction of the
capital ; and
(v) generally
for all applications to be made to the Court under the provisions of
this Act.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality
of the foregoing power, the Supreme Court may, by such rules, enable
or require all or any of the powers and duties conferred and imposed
on the Court by this Act, in respect of the following matters, that
is to say :-
(a) the holding and conducting of
meetings to ascertain the wishes of creditors and contributories;
(b) the settling of lists of
contributories and the rectifying of the register of members where
required, and collecting and applying the assets;
(c) the payment, delivery, conveyance,
surrender or transfer of money, property, books or papers to the
liquidator;
(d) the making of calls; and
(e) the fixing of a time within which
debts and claims shall be proved; to be exercised or performed by
the Official Liquidator or any other liquidator as an officer of the
Court, and subject to the control of the Court :
Provided that the liquidator shall not,
without the special leave of the Court, rectify the register of
members or make any call.
(3) Until rules are made by the Supreme
Court as aforesaid, all rules made by any High Court on the matters
referred to in this section and in force at the commencement of this
Act, shall continue to be in force in so far as they are not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act in that High Court and
in Courts subordinate thereto.
(4) All rules made by the Central
Government under sub-section (1) of section 549 and in force
immediatelybefore the commencement of the Companies (Amendment) Act,
1960 shall continue in force and be deemed to have been made by the
Supreme Court unless and until they are superseded by rules made by
the Supreme Court after such commencement.
Section 644
REPEAL OF ACTS SPECIFIED IN SCHEDULE XII.
The enactments mentioned in Schedule XII
are hereby repealed.
Section 645
SAVING OF ORDERS, RULES, ETC., IN FORCE
AT COMMENCEMENT OF ACT.
Nothing in this Act shall affect any
order, rule, regulation, appointment, conveyance, mortgage, deed,
document or agreement made, fee directed, resolution passed,
direction given, proceeding taken, instrument executed or issued, or
thing done, under or in pursuance of any previous companies law; but
any such order, rule, regulation, appointment, conveyance, mortgage,
deed, document, agreement, fee, resolution, direction, proceeding,
instrument or thing shall, if in force at the commencement of this
Act, continue to be in force, and so far as it could have been made,
directed, passed, given, taken, executed, issued or done under or in
pursuance of this Act, shall have effect as if made, directed,
passed, given, taken, executed, issued or done under or in pursuance
of this Act.
Section 646
SAVING OF OPERATION OF SECTION 138 OF ACT
7 OF 1913.
Nothing in this Act shall affect the
operation of section 138 of the Indian Companies Act, 1913 (7 of
1913), as respects inspectors, or as respects the continuation of an
inspection begun by inspectors, appointed before the commencement of
this Act; and the provisions of this Act shall apply to or in
relation to a report of inspectors appointed under the said section
138 as they apply to or in relation to a report of inspectors
appointed under section 235 of 237 of this Act.
Section 647
SAVING OF PENDING PROCEEDINGS FOR WINDING
UP.
Where the winding up of a company has
commenced before the commencement of this Act -
(i) sub-section (7) of section 555 shall
apply in respect of any moneys paid into the Companies Liquidation
Account whether before or after such commencement; and
(ii) the other provisions with respect to
winding up contained in this Act shall not apply, but the company
shall be wound up in the same manner and with the same incidents as
if this Act had not been passed :
Provided that where the proceedings in
any such winding up are pending at the commencement of the Companies
(Amendment) Act, 1960 (65 of 1960), -
(a) sections 463, 502, 515 and 524 shall,
as far as may be, also apply in relation thereto;
(b) the liquidator appointed by the Court
and functioning in any such winding up shall in such manner and at
such time as may be prescribed by the Central Government, pay the
moneys received by him as such liquidator, into the public account
of Indian in the Reserve Bank of India.
Section 648
SAVING OF PROSECUTIONS INSTITUTED BY
LIQUIDATOR OR COURT UNDER SECTION 237 OF ACT 7 OF 1913 (7 OF 1913).
Nothing in this Act shall affect any
prosecution instituted or ordered by the Court to be instituted
under section 237 of the Indian Companies Act, 1913 (7 of 1913); and
the Court shall have the same power of directing how any costs,
charges, and expenses properly incurred in any such prosecution are
to be defrayed as it would have had, if this Act had not been
passed.
Section 649
CONSTRUCTION OF REFERENCES TO FORMER
ENACTMENTS IN DOCUMENTS.
Any document referring to any former
enactment relating to companies shall be constructed as referring to
the corresponding enactment in this Act.
Section 650
CONSTRUCTION OF "REGISTRAR OF JOINT STOCK
COMPANIES" IN ACT 21 OF 1860. - OMITTED BY THE COMPANIES (AMENDMENT)
ACT, 1960.
For the original section, refer Appendix
Section 651
CONSTRUCTION OF REFERENCES TO
EXTRAORDINARY RESOLUTION IN ARTICLES, ETC.
Any reference to an extraordinary
resolution in the articles of a company, or in any resolution passed
in general meeting by the company, or in any other instrument, or in
any law in force immediately before the commencement of this Act,
shall, with effect on and from such commencement, be construed as a
reference to a special resolution.
Section 652
APPOINTMENT UNDER PREVIOUS COMPANIES LAWS
TO HAVE EFFECT AS IF MADE UNDER ACT.
Any person appointed to any office under
or by virtue of any previous companies law shall be deemed to have
been appointed to that office under or by virtue of this Act.
Section 653
FORMER REGISTRATION OFFICES CONTINUED.
The offices existing at the commencement
of this Act for the registration of companies shall be continued as
if they had been established under this Act.
Section 654.
REGISTERS UNDER PREVIOUS COMPANIES LAWS
TO BE DEEMED TO BE PART OF REGISTERS UNDER ACT
Any register kept under the provisions of
any previous companies law shall be deemed to be part of the
register to be kept under the corresponding provisions of this Act.
Section 655
FUNDS AND ACCOUNTS UNDER ACT TO BE IN
CONTINUATION OF FUNDS AND ACCOUNTS UNDER PREVIOUS COMPANIES LAW.
All funds constituted and accounts kept
under this Act shall be deemed to be in continuation of the
corresponding funds constituted and accounts kept under previous
companies laws.
Section 656
SAVING OF INCORPORATION UNDER REPEALED
ACTS.
Nothing in this Act shall affect the
incorporation of any company registered under any enactment hereby
repealed.
Section 657
SAVING OF CERTAIN TABLES UNDER PREVIOUS
COMPANIES LAWS.
Nothing in this Act shall affect -
(a) Table B in the Schedule annexed to
Act No. 19 of 1857, or any part thereof, so far as the same applies
to any company existing at the commencement of this Act;
(b) Table A in the First Schedule annexed
to the Indian Companies Act, 1882 (6 of 1882), or any part thereof,
so far as the same applies to any company existing at the
commencement of this Act;
(c) Table A in the First Schedule to the
Indian Companies Act, 1913 (7 of 1913), either as originally
contained in that Schedule or as altered in pursuance of section 151
of that Act, so far as the same applies to any company existing at
the commencement of this Act.
Section 658.
Section
6 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897) to apply in addition
to Section 645 to 657 of Act.
The mention of particular
matters in section 645 to 657 or in any other provision of this Act
shall not prejudice the general application ohe General Clauses Act,
1897 (10 of 1897), with respect to the effect of repeals.
SCHEDULES
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 1
THE FIRST SCHEDULE SCHEDULE I
[See sections
2(2), 14, 28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
1
INTERPRETATION.
(1) In these regulations -
(a) "the Act" means the Companies Act,
1956,
(b) "the seal" means the common seal of
the company.
(2) Unless the context otherwise
requires, words or expressions contained in these regulations shall
bear the same meaning as in the Act or any statutory modification
thereof in force at the date at which these regulations become
binding on the company.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 2
[See sections 2(2), 14, 28(1), 29 and 223]
A
REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
SHARE CAPITAL AND VARIATION OF
RIGHTS.
Subject to the provisions of section 80,
any preference shares may, with the sanction of an ordinary
resolution, be issued on the terms that they are, or at the option
of the company are liable, to be redeemed on such terms and in such
manner as the company before the issue of the shares may, by special
resolution, determine.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 3
I THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
3
SHARE CAPITAL AND VARIATION OF RIGHTS.
(1) If at any time the share capital is
divided into different classes of shares, the rights attached to any
class (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares
of that class) may, subject to the provisions of sections 106 and
107, and whether or not the company is being wound up, be varied
with the consent in writing of the holders of three-fourths of the
issued shares of that class, or with the sanction of a special
resolution passed at a separate meeting of the holders of the shares
of that class.
(2) To every such separate meeting, the
provisions of these regulations relating to general meetings shall
mutatis mutandis apply, but so that the necessary quorum shall be
two persons at least holding or representing by proxy one-third of
the issued shares of the class in question.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 4
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
4
SHARE CAPITAL AND VARIATION OF RIGHTS.
The rights conferred upon the holders of
the shares of any class issued with preferred or other rights shall
not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of
the shares of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or
issue of further shares ranking pari passu therewith.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 5
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
5
SHARE CAPITAL AND VARIATION OF RIGHTS.
(1) The company may exercise the powers
of paying commissions conferred by section 76, provided that the
rate per cent or the amount of the commission paid or agreed to be
paid shall be disclosed in the manner required by that section.
(2) The rate of the commission shall not
exceed the rate of five per cent of the price at which the shares in
respect whereof the same is paid are issued or an amount equal to
five per cent of such price, as the case may be.
(3) The commission may be satisfied by
the payment of cash or the allotment of fully or partly paid shares
or partly in the one way and partly in the other.
(4) The company may also, on any issue of
shares, pay such brokerage as may be lawful.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 6
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
6
SHARE CAPITAL AND VARIATION OF RIGHTS.
Except as required by law, no person
shall be recognised by the company as holding any share upon any
trust, and the company shall not be bound by, or be compelled in any
way to recognise (even when having notice thereof) any equitable,
contingent, future or partial interest in any share, or any interest
in any fractional part of a share, or (except only as by these
regulations or by law otherwise provided) any other rights in
respect of any share except an absolute right to the entirety
thereof in the registered holder.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 7
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
7
SHARE CAPITAL AND VARIATION OF RIGHTS.
(1) Every person whose name is entered as
a member in the register of members shall be entitled to receive
within three months after allotment or within two months after the
application for the registration of transfer (or within such other
period as the conditions of issue shall provide) -
(a) one certificate for all his shares
without payment; or
(b) several certificates, each for one or
more of his shares, upon payment of one rupee for every certificate
after the first.
(2) Every certificate shall be under the
seal and shall specify the shares to which it relates and the amount
paid up thereon.
(3) In respect of any share or shares
held jointly by several persons, the company shall not be bound to
issue more than one certificate, and delivery of a certificate for a
share to one of several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery
to all such holders.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 8
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
8
SHARE CAPITAL AND VARIATION OF RIGHTS.
If a share certificate is defaced, lost
or destroyed, it may be renewed on payment of such fee, if any, not
exceeding two rupees , and on such terms, if any, as to evidence and
indemnity and the payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the
company in investigating evidence, as the directors think fit.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 9
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
9
LIEN.
(1) The company shall have a first and
paramount lien -
(a) on every share (not being a
fully-paid share), for all moneys (whether presently payable or not)
called, or payable at a fixed time, in respect of that share;
and
(b) on all shares (not being fully-paid
shares) standing registered in the name of a single person, for all
moneys presently payable by him or his estate to the company :
Provided that the Board of directors may at any time declare any
share to be wholly or in part exempt from the provisions of this
clause.
(2) The company's lien, if any, on a
share shall extend to all dividends payable thereon.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 10
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
10 LIEN.
The company may sell, in such manner as
the Board thinksfit, any shares on which the company has a lien :
Provided that no sale shall be made -
(a) unless a sum in respect of which the
lien exists is presently payable, or
(b) until the expiration of fourteen days
after a notice in writing stating and demanding payment of such part
of the amount in respect of which the lien exists as is presently
payable, has been given to the registered holder for the time being
of the share or the person entitled thereto by reason of his death
or insolvency.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 11
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
11 LIEN.
(1) To give effect to any such sale, the
Board may authorise some person to transfer the shares sold to the
purchaser thereof.
(2) The purchaser shall be registered as
the holder of the shares comprised in any such transfer.
(3) The purchaser shall not be bound to
see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to
the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the
proceedings in reference to the sale.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 12
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
12 LIEN.
(1) The proceeds of the sale shall be
received by the company and applied in payment of such part of the
amount in respect of which the lien exists as is presently payable.
(2) The residue, if any, shall, subject
to a like lien for sums not presently payable as existed upon the
shares before the sale, be paid to the person entitled to the shares
at the date of the sale.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 13
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
13 CALLS ON SHARES.
(1) The Board may, from time to time,
make calls upon the members in respect of any moneys unpaid on their
shares (whether on account of the nominal value of the shares or by
way of premium) and not by the conditions of allotment thereof made
payable at fixed times : Provided that no call shall exceed
one-fourth of the nominal value of the share or be payable at less
than one month from the date fixed for the payment of the last
preceding call.
(2) Each member shall, subject to
receiving at least fourteen days' notice specifying the time or
times and place of payment, pay to the company, at the time or times
and place so specified, the amount called on his shares.
(3) A call may be revoked or postponed at
the discretion of the Board.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 14
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
14 CALLS ON SHARES.
A call shall be deemed to have been made
at the time when the resolution of the Board authorising the call
was passed and may be required to be paid by instalments.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 15
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
15 CALLS ON SHARES.
The joint holders of a share shall be
jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in respect thereof.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 16
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
16 CALLS ON SHARES.
(1) If a sum called in respect of a share
is not paid before or on the day appointed for payment thereof, the
person from whom the sum is due shall pay interest thereon from the
day appointed for payment thereof to the time of actual payment at
five per cent per annum or at such lower rate, if any, as the Board
may determine.
(2) The Board shall be at liberty to
waive payment of any such interest wholly or in part.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 17
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
17 CALLS ON SHARES.
(1) Any sum which by the terms of issue
of a share becomes payable on allotment or at any fixed date,
whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of
premium, shall, for the purposes of these regulations, be deemed to
be a call duly made and payable on the date on which by the terms of
issue such sum becomes payable.
(2) In case of non-payment of such sum,
all the relevant provisions of these regulations as to payment of
interest and expenses, forfeiture or otherwise shall apply as if
such sum had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and
notified.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 18
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
18 CALLS ON SHARES.
The Board -
(a) may, if it thinks fit, receive from
any member willing to advance the same, all or any part of the
moneys uncalled and unpaid upon any shares held by him; and
Sch. I
Table A Regulation 19
THE
FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14, 28(1), 29 and 223]
A
REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
19 TRANSFER OF SHARES.
(1) The instrument of transfer of any
share in the company shall be executed by or on behalf of both the
transferor and transferee.
(2) The transferor shall be deemed to
remain a holder of the share until the name of the transferee is
entered in the register of members in respect thereof.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 20
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
20 TRANSFER OF SHARES.
Subject to the provisions of section 108,
the shares in the company shall be transferred in the following
form, namely :-
1020 FORM NO. 7B
Date of presentation to the prescribed
authority
SHARE TRANSFER FORM (Pursuant to section
108(1A) of the Companies Act, 1956)
OR THE CONSIDERATION stated below the
"Transferor(s)" named do hereby transfer to the "Transferee(s)"
named the shares specified below subject to the conditions on which
the said shares are now held by the Transferor(s) and Transferee(s)
do hereby agree to accept and hold the said shares subject to the
conditions aforesaid.
FULL
NAME OF COMPANY |
NAME OF THE RECOGNISED STOCK
EXCHANGE WHERE DEALT IN IF ANY |
DESCRIPTION OF EQUITY/PREFERENCE SHARES
No.
in figures |
Number in words |
Consideration (in
figures) |
Consideration (in words) |
Distinctive
numbers |
From |
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Certificate Nos |
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TRANSFEROR(S) [SELLER(S)] PARTICULARS
Regd.FolioNo ----------- Signature(s) Name(s) in full
1.
.................
2.
................
3.................
4.................. 2.
.................. 3. .................. 4.
..................
ATTESTATION Signature of witness
I,
hereby attest the signature of | || the Transferor(s) herein
mentioned | Name & address of witness || |
......................... || | ......................... ||
Signature | ......................... || | .........................
|| Name | ......................... || | .........................
|| Address/Seal | ......................... || |
......................... ||*Please see overleaf for instructions |
PIN ||--------------------------------------|
......................... || || TRANSFEREE(S) [BUYER(S)] PARTICULARS
Signature(s) || || Name(s) in full 1. ................ 1.
............... || 2. ................ 2. ............... || 3.
................ 3. ............... ||
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| Occupation | Address | Father's/Husband' s name
||-----|---------------|---------------|------------------------------||
1. | | |
||-----|---------------|---------------|------------------------------||
2. | | |
||-----|---------------|---------------|------------------------------||
3. | | |
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Transferee(s) || existing Folio, --------- ---------- || if any, in
same | | Value of | Rs. | || order of names --------- Stamps affixed
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DATED this .... day of .... One Thousand Nine Hundred ....
PLACE......
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-----------------------------------------------| For office use only
| ------ ----- | | Folio | | Company Code | | | | ------ ----- |
Checked by ........ | Specimen 1. ...................... | Signature
| Signature(s) of 2. ...................... | tallied by ........ |
Transferee(s) 3. ....................... | Entered in Register | |
of Transfer No. .... | | Approval date ...... |
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Continuation of front page (herein enter the Distinctive numberswhen
the space on the front page is found to be insufficient)
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Distinctive | From | | | | | | | || numbers
|------|------|------|------|------|------|-----|-----|| | To | | |
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Corresponding | | | | | | | || Certificate Nos. | | | | | | | |
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR ATTESTATION Attestation, where required (thumb
impressions, marks, signaturedifference, etc.) should be done by a
Magistrate, Notary Public orSpecial Executive Magistrate or a
similar authority holding aPublic Office and authorised to use the
Seal of his office or amember of a recognised Stock Exchange through
whom the shares areintroduced or a manager of the transferor's bank.
Note : Names must be rubber stamped preferably in a straight
line.Chronological order should be maintained. Broker's Clearing
Numbershould be stated when delivery is given by a Clearing Member
Bank. ----------------------------
----------------------------------| Name of delivery | Date | |
POWER OF | PROBATE | DEATH || Broker or Clearing | | | ATTORNEY | |
CERTIFICATE || Number | | | | | ||--------------------|-------|
|----------------------------------|| | | |LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION
|| | | |----------------------------------|| | | | Registered with
the Company || | | | || | | | No. .......... Date ........... || | |
| || | | | ............................... || | | | (Signature [not
initials] of || | | | Broker, Bank, Company or Stock || | | |
Exchange Clearing House) || | |
|----------------------------------|| | |
|----------------------------------|| | | | +LODGED BY
................... || | | | FULL ADDRESS ................... || | |
| ................................ || | | |
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---------------------------------- | | | | SHARE CERTIFICATES TO BE
|| | | | RETURNED TO || | | | (Fill in the name and address || | | |
to which the Certificates are | | | | | required to be returned) ||
| | | || | | | NAME AND ADDRESS .............. || | | |
............................... || | | |
............................... || | | |
............................... || | |
|----------------------------------| | | |
|----------------------------------|| | | | SHARE TRANSFER STAMPS ||
| | | || | | | || | | | || | | | || | | | |
---------------------------- ---------------------------------- + To
be filled only if the documents are lodged by a person other than
the transferee."
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 21
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
21 TRANSFER OF SHARES.
The Board may, subject to the right of
appeal conferred by section 111, decline to register -
(a) the transfer of a share, not being a
fully-paid share, to a person of whom they do not approve; or
(b) any transfer of shares on which the
company has a lien.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 22
THE FIRST SCHEDULE SCHEDULE
[See sections
2(2), 14, 28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
22 TRANSFER OF SHARES.
The Board may also decline to recognise
any instrument of transfer unless -
(a) a fee of two rupees is paid to the
company in respect thereof;
(b) the instrument of transfer is
accompanied by the certificate of the shares to which it relates,
and such other evidence as the Board may reasonably require to show
the right of the transferor to make the transfer; and
(c) the instrument of transfer is in
respect of only one class of shares
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 23
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
23 TRANSFER OF SHARES.
Subjet to the provisions of section 154,
the registration of transfers may be suspended at such times and for
such periods as the Board may from time to time determine :
Provided that such registration shall not
be suspended for more than thirty days at any one time or for more
than forty-five days in the aggregate in any year
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 24
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
24 TRANSFER OF SHARES.
The company shall be entitled to share a
fee not exceeding two rupees on the registration of every probate,
letters of administration, certificate of death or marriage, power
of attorney, or other instrument.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 25
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
25 TRANSMISSION OF SHARES.
(1) On the death of a member, the
survivor or survivors where the member was a joint holder, and his
legal representatives where he was a sole holder, shall be the only
persons recognised by the company as having any title to his
interest in the shares.
(2) Nothing in clause (1) shall release
the estate of a deceased joint holder from any liability in respect
of any share which had been jointly held by him with other persons.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 26
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
26 TRANSMISSION OF SHARES.
(1) Any person becoming entitled to a
share in consequence of the death or insolvency of a member may,
upon such evidence being produced as may from time to time properly
be required by the Board and subject as hereinafter provided, elect,
either -
(a) to be registered himself as holder of
the share; or
(b) to make such transfer of the share as
the deceased or insolvent member could have made.
(2) The Board shall, in either case, have
the same right to decline or suspend registration as it would have
had, if the deceased or insolvent member had transferred the share
before his death or insolvency.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 27
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
27 TRANSMISSION OF SHARES.
(1) If the person so becoming entitled
shall elect to be registered as holder of the share himself, he
shall deliver or send to the company a notice in writing signed by
him stating that he so elects.
(2) If the person aforesaid shall elect
to transfer the share, he shall testify his election by executing a
transfer of the share.
(3) All the limitations, restrictions and
provisions of these regulations relating to the right to transfer
and the registration of transfers of shares shall be applicable to
any such notice or transfer as aforesaid as if the death or
insolvency of the member had not occurred and the notice or transfer
were a transfer signed by that member.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 28
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
28 TRANSMISSION OF SHARES.
A person becoming entitled to a share by
reason of the death or insolvency of the holder shall be entitled to
the same dividends and other advantages to which he would be
entitled if he were the registered holder of the share, except that
he shall not, before being registered as a member in respect of the
share, be entitled in respect of it to exercise any right conferred
by membership in relation to meetings of the company : Provided that
the Board may, at any time, give notice requiring any such person to
elect either to be registered himself or to transfer the share, and
if the notice is not complied with within ninety days, the Board may
thereafter withhold payment of all dividends, bonuses or other
moneys payable in respect of the share, until the requirements of
the notice have been complied with
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 29
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
29 FORFEITURE OF SHARES.
If a member fails to pay any call, or
instalment of a call, on the day appointed for payment thereof, the
Board may, at any time thereafter during such time as any part of
the call or instalment remains unpaid, serve a notice on him
requiring payment of so much of the call or instalment as is unpaid,
together with any interest which may have accrued.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 30
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
30 FORFEITURE OF SHARES.
The notice aforesaid shall -
(a) name a further day (not being earlier
than the expiry of fourteen days from the date of service of the
notice) on or before which the payment required by the notice is to
be made; and
(b) state that, in the event of
non-payment on or before the day so named, the shares in respect of
which the call was made will be liable to be forfeited.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 31
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
31 FORFEITURE OF
SHARES.
If the requirements of any such notice as
aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect of which the
notice has been given may, at any time thereafter, before the
payment required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a
resolution of the Board to that effect.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 32
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
32 FORFEITURE OF SHARES.
(1) A forfeited share may be sold or
otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such manner as the Board
thinks fit.
(2) At any time before a sale or disposal
as aforesaid, the Board may cancel the forfeiture on such terms as
it thinks fit.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 33
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
33 FORFEITURE OF SHARES.
(1) A person whose shares have been
forfeited shall cease to be a member in respect of the forfeited
shares, but shall, notwithstanding the forfeiture, remain liable to
pay to the company all moneys which, at the date of forfeiture, were
presently payable by him to the company in respect of the
shares.
(2) The liability of such person shall
cease if and when the company shall have received payment in full of
all such moneys in respect of the shares.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 34
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
34 FORFEITURE OF SHARES.
(1) A duly verified declaration in
writing that the declarant is a director, the manager or the
secretary, of the company, and that a share in the company has been
duly forfeited on a date stated in the declaration, shall be
conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated as against all
persons claiming to be entitled to the share.
(2) The company may receive the
consideration, if any, given for the share on any sale or disposal
thereof and may execute a transfer of the share in favour of the
person to whom the share is sold or disposed of.
(3) The transferee shall thereupon be
registered as the holder of the share.
(4) The transferee shall not be bound to
see to the application of the purchase money, if any, nor shall his
title to the share be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in
the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture, sale or disposal of
the share.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 35
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
35 FORFEITURE OF SHARES.
The provisions of these regulations as to
forfeiture shall apply in the case of non-payment of any sum which,
by the terms of issue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time,
whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of
premium, as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly
made and notified.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 36
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
36 CONVERSION OF SHARES INTO
STOCK
The company may, by ordinary resolution,
-
(a) convert any paid-up shares into
stock; and
(b) reconvert any stock into paid-up
shares of any denomination.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 37
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
37 CONVERSION OF SHARES INTO
STOCK
The holders of stock may transfer the
same or any part thereof in the same manner as, and subject to the
same regulations under which, the shares from which the stock arose
might before the conversion have been transferred, or as near
thereto as circumstances admit : Provided that the Board may, from
time to time, fix the minimum amount of stock transferable, so
however that such minimum shall not exceed the nominal amount of the
shares from which the stock arose.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 38
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
38 CONVERSION OF SHARES INTO
STOCK
The holders of stock shall, according to
the amount of stock held by them, have the same rights, privileges
and advantages as regards dividends, voting at meetings of the
company, and other matters, as if they held the shares from which
the stock arose; but no such privilege or advantage (except
participation in the dividends and profits of the company and in the
assets on winding up) shall be conferred by an amount of stock which
would not, if existing in shares, have conferred that privilege or
advantage.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 39
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
39 CONVERSION OF SHARES INTO
STOCK
Such of the regulations of the company
(other than those relating to share warrants), as are applicable to
paid-up shares shall apply to stock and the words "share" and
"shareholder" in those regulations shall include "stock" and
"stockholder" respectively.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 40
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
40 SHARE WARRANTS
The company may issue share warrants
subject to, and in accordance with, the provisions of section 114
and 115; and accordingly the Board may in its discretion, with
respect to any share which is fully paid up, on application in
writing signed by the person registered as holder of the share, and
authenticated by such evidence (if any) as the Board may, from time
to time, require as to the identity of the person signing the
application, and on receiving the certificate (if any) of the share,
and the amount of the stamp duty on the warrant and such fee as the
Board may from time to time require, issue a share warrant.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 41
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
41 SHARE WARRANTS
(1) The bearer of a share warrant may at
any time deposit the warrant at the office of the company, and so
long as the warrant remains so deposited, the depositor shall have
the same right of signing a requisition for calling a meeting of the
company, and of attending, and voting and exercising the other
privileges of a member at any meeting held after the expiry of two
clear days from the time of deposit, as if his name were inserted in
the register of members as the holder of the shares included in the
deposited warrant.
(2) Not more than one person shall be
recognised as depositor of the share warrant.
3) The company shall, on two days'
written notice, return the deposited share warrant to the depositor.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 42
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
42 SHARE WARRANTS
(1) Subject as herein otherwise expressly
provided, no person shall, as bearer of a share warrant, sign a
requisition for calling a meeting of the company, or attend, or vote
or exercise any other privilege of a member at a meeting of the
company, or be entitled to receive any notices from the
company.
(2) The bearer of a share warrant shall
be entitled in all other respects to the same privileges and
advantages as if he were named in the register of members as the
holder of the shares included in the warrant, and he shall be a
member of the company.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 43
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
I [See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
43 SHARE WARRANTS
The Board may, from time to time, make
rules as to the terms on which (if it shall think fit) a new share
warrant or coupon may be issued by way of renewal in case of
defacement, loss or destruction.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 44
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
44 ALTERATION OF CAPITAL
The company may, from time to time, by
ordinary resolution increase the share capital by such sum, to be
divided into shares of such amount, as may be specified in the
resolution
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 45
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
45 ALTERATION OF CAPITAL
The company may, by ordinary resolution,
-
(a) consolidate and divide all or any of
its share capital into shares of larger amount than its existing
shares;
(b) sub-divide its existing shares or any
of them into shares of smaller amount than is fixed by the
memorandum, subject, nevertheless, to the provisions of clause (d)
of sub-section (1) of section 94;
(c) cancel any shares which, at the date
of the passing of the resolution, have not been taken or agreed to
be taken by any person.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 46
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
46 ALTERATION OF CAPITAL
The company may, by special resolution
reduce in any manner and with and subject to, any incident
authorised and consent required by law, -
(a) its share capital;
(b) any capital redemption reserve
account;
(c) any share premium account.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 47
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
47 GENERAL MEETINGS
All general meetings other than annual
general meetings shall be called extraordinary general meetings.
Sch. I
Table A Regulation 48
THE
FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14, 28(1), 29 and 223]
A
REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
48 GENERAL MEETINGS
(1) The Board may, whenever it thinks
fit, call an extraordinary general meeting.
(2) If at any time there are not within
India directors capable of acting who are sufficient in number to
form a quorum, any director or any two members of the company may
call an extraordinary general meeting in the same manner, as nearly
as possible, as that in which such a meeting may be called by the
Board.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 49
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
49 PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL
MEETINGS
(1) No business shall be transacted at
any general meeting unless a quorum of members is present at the
time when the meeting proceeds to business.
(2) Save as herein otherwise provided,
five members present in person (in the case of a public company -
two members present in person, in the case of a private company)
shall be a quorum.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 50
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
50 PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL
MEETINGS
The chairman, if any, of the Board shall
preside as chairman at every general meeting of the company.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 51
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
51 PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL
MEETINGS
If there is no such chairman, or if he is
not present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for
holding the meeting, or is unwilling to act as chairman of the
meeting, the directors present shall elect one of their number to be
chairman of the meeting.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 52
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
52 PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL
MEETINGS
If at any meeting no director is willing
to act as chairman or if no director is present within fifteen
minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the
members present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of
the meeting.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 53
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
53 PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL
MEETINGS
(1) The chairman may, with the consent of
any meeting at which a quorum is present, and shall, if so directed
by the meeting, adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place
to place.
(2) No business shall be transacted at
any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the
meeting from which the adjournment took place.
(3) When a meeting is adjourned for
thirty days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given
as in the case of an original meeting.
(4) Save as aforesaid, it shall not be
necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to
be transacted at an adjourned meeting.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 54
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
54 PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL
MEETINGS
In the case of an equality of votes,
whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the chairman of the meeting
at which the show of hands takes place, or at which the poll is
demanded, shall be entitled to a second or casting vote.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 55
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
55 PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL
MEETINGS
Any business other than that upon which a
poll has been demanded may be proceeded with, pending the taking of
the poll.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 56
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
56 VOTES OF MEMBERS
Subject to any rights or restrictions for
the time being attached to any class or classes of shares, - (a) on
a show of hands, every member present in person shall have one vote;
and (b) on a poll, the voting rights of members shall be as laid
down in section 87.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 57
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
57 VOTES OF MEMBERS
In the case of joint holders, the vote of
the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall
be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint
holders. For this purpose, seniority shall be determined by the
order in which the names stand in the register of members.
Sch. I
Table A Regulation 58
THE
FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14, 28(1), 29 and 223]
58.A
member of unsound mind, or in respect of whom an order has been made
by any Court having jurisdiction in lunacy, may vote, whether on a
show of hands or on a poll, by his committee or other legal
guardian, and any such committee or guardian may, on a poll, vote by
proxy.
Sch. I
Table A Regulation 59
THE
FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14, 28(1), 29 and 223]
A
REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
59 VOTES OF MEMBERS
No member shall be entitled to vote at
any general meeting unless all calls or other sums presently payable
by him in respect of shares in the company have been paid.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 60
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
60 VOTES OF MEMBERS
(1) No objection shall be raised to the
qualification of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned
meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered, and
every vote not disallowed at such meeting shall be valid for all
purposes.
(2) Any such objection made in due time
shall be referred to the chairman of the meeting, whose decision
shall be final and conclusive.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 61
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
61 VOTES OF MEMBERS
The instrument appointing a proxy and the
power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is
signed or a notarially certified copy of that power or authority,
shall be deposited at the registered office of the company not less
than 48 hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned
meeting at which the person named in the instrument proposes to
vote, or, in the case of a poll, not less than 24 hours before the
time appointed for the taking of the poll; and in default the
instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 62
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
62 VOTES OF MEMBERS
An instrument appointing a proxy shall be
in either of the forms in Schedule IX to the Act or a form as near
thereto as circumstances admit.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 63
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
63 VOTES OF MEMBERS
A vote given in accordance with the terms
of an instrument of proxy shall be valid, notwithstanding the
previous death or insanity of the principal or the revocation of the
proxy or of the authority under which the proxy was executed, or the
transfer of the shares in respect of which the proxy is given :
Provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity,
revocation or transfer shall have been received by the company at
its office before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned
meeting at which the proxy is used.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 64
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
64 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The number of the directors and the names
of the first directors shall be determined in writing by the
subscribers of the memorandum or a majority of them.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 65
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
65 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(1) The remuneration of the directors
shall, in so far as it consists of a monthly payment, be deemed to
accrue from day to day.
(2) In addition to the remuneration
payable to them in pursuance of the Act, the directors may be paid
all travelling, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by them -
(a) in attending and returning from
meetings of the Board of directors or any committee thereof or
general meetings of the company; or
(b) in connection with the business of
the company.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 66
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
66 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The qualification of a director shall be
the holding of atleast one share in the company.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 67
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
67 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Board may pay all expenses incurred
in getting up and registering the company.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 68
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
68 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The company may exercise the powers
conferred by section 50 with regard to having an official seal for
use abroad, and such powers shall be vested in the Board.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 69
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
69 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The company may exercise the powers
conferred on it by sections 157 and 158 with regard to the keeping
of a foreign register; and the Board may (subject to the provisions
of those sections) make and vary such regulations as it may think
fit respecting the keeping of any such register.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 70
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
70 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
All cheques, promissory notes, drafts,
hundis, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments, and all
receipts for moneys paid to the company, shall be signed, drawn,
accepted, endorsed, or otherwise executed, as the case may be, by
such person and in such manner as the Board shall from time to time
by resolution determine.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 71
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
71 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Every director present at any meeting of
the Board or of a committee thereof shall sign his name in a book to
be kept for that purpose.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 72
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
72 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(1) The Board shall have power at any
time, and from time to time, to appoint a person as an additional
director, provided the number of the directors and additional
directors together shall not at any time exceed the maximum strength
fixed for the Board by the articles.
(2) Such person shall hold office only up
to the date of the next annual general meeting of the company but
shall be eligible for appointment by the company as a director at
that meeting subject to the provisions of the Act.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 73
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
73 PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD
(1) The Board of directors may meet for
the despatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate its
meetings, as it thinks fit.
(2) A director may, and the manager or
secretary on the requisition of a director shall, at any time,
summon a meeting of the Board.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 74
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
74 PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD
(1) Save as otherwise expressly provided
in the Act, questions arising at any meeting of the Board shall be
decided by a majority of votes.
(2) In case of an equality of votes, the
chairman of the Board, if any, shall have a second or casting vote.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 75
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
75 PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD
The continuing directors may act
notwithstanding any vacancy in the Board; but, if and so long as
their number is reduced below the quorum fixed by the Act for a
meeting of the Board, the continuing directors or director may act
for the purpose of increasing the number of directors to that fixed
for the quorum, or of summoning a general meeting of the company,
but for no other purpose.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 76
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
76 PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD
(1) The Board may elect a chairman of its
meetings and determine the period for which he is to hold office.
(2) If no such chairman is elected, or if
at any meeting the chairman is not present within five minutes after
the time appointed for holding the meeting, the directors present
may choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 77
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
77 PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD
(1) The Board may, subject to the
provisions of the Act, delegate any of its powers to committees
consisting of such member or members of its body as it thinks fit.
(2) Any committee so formed shall, in the
exercise of the powers so delegated, conform to any regulations that
may be imposed on it by the Board.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 78
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
78 PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD
(1) A committee may elect a chairman of
its meetings.
(2) If no such chairman is elected, or if
at any meeting the chairman is not present within five minutes after
the time appointed for holding the meeting, the members present may
choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 79
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
79 PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD
(1) A committee may meet and adjourn as
it thinks proper.
(2) Questions arising at any meeting of a
committee shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members
present, and in case of an equality of votes, the chairman shall
have a second or casting vote.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 80
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
80 PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD
All acts done by any meeting of the Board
or of a committee thereof or by any person acting as a director,
shall, notwithstanding that it may be afterwards discovered that
there was some defect in the appointment of any one or more of such
directors or of any person acting as aforesaid, or that they or any
of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every such director or
such person had been duly appointed and was qualified to be a
director.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 81
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
81 PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD
Save as otherwise expressly provided in
the Act, a resolution in writing, signed by all the members of the
Board or of a committee thereof, for the time being entitled to
receive notice of a meeting of the Board or committee, shall be as
valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the
Board or committee, duly convened and held.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 82
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
82 MANAGER OR
SECRETARY
Subject to the provisions of the Act, -
(1) A manager or secretary may be
appointed by the Board for such term, at such remuneration and upon
such conditions as it may think fit; and any manager or secretary so
appointed may be removed by the Board;
(2) A director may be appointed as
manager or secretary.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 83
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
83 MANAGER OR SECRETARY
A provision of the Act or these
regulations requiring or authorising a thing to be done by or to a
director and the manager or secretary shall not be satisfied by its
being done by or to the same person acting both as director and as,
or in place of, the manager or secretary.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 84
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
84 THE SEAL
(1) The Board shall provide for the safe
custody of the seal.
(2) The seal of the company shall not be
affixed to any instrument except by the authority of a resolution of
the Board or of a committee of the Board authorised by it in that
behalf, and except in the presence of at least two directors and of
the secretary or such other person as the Board may appoint for the
purpose; and those two directors and the secretary or other person
aforesaid shall sign every instrument to which the seal of the
company is so affixed in their presence.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 85
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
85 DIVIDENDS AND RESERVE
The company in general meeting may
declare dividends, but no dividend shall exceed the amount
recommended by the Board.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 86
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
86 DIVIDENDS AND RESERVE
The Board may from time to time pay to
the members such interim dividends as appear to it to be justified
by the profits of the company.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 87
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
87 DIVIDENDS AND RESERVE
(1) The Board may, before recommending
any dividend, set aside out of the profits of the company such sums
as it thinks proper as a reserve or reserves which shall, at the
discretion of the Board, be applicable for any purpose to which the
profits of the company may be properly applied, including provision
for meeting contingencies or for equalising dividends; and pending
such application, may, at the like discretion, either be employed in
the business of the company or be invested in such investments
(other than shares of the company) as the Board may, from time to
time, think fit.
(2) The Board may also carry forward any
profits which it may think prudent not to divide, without setting
them aside as a reserve.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 88
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
88 DIVIDENDS AND RESERVE
(1) Subject to the rights of persons, if
any, entitled to shares with special rights as to dividends, all
dividends shall be declared and paid according to the amounts paid
or credited as paid on the shares in respect whereof the dividend is
paid, but if and so long as nothing is paid upon any of the shares
in the company, dividends may be declared and paid according to the
amounts of the shares.
(2) No amount paid or credited as paid on
a share in advance of calls shall be treated for the purposes of
this regulation as paid on the share.
Sch. I
Table A Regulation 89
THE
FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14, 28(1), 29 and 223]
A
REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
89 DIVIDENDS AND RESERVE
The Board may deduct from any dividend
payable to any member all sums of money, if any, presently payable
by him to the company on account of calls or otherwise in relation
to the shares of the company.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 90
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
90 DIVIDENDS AND RESERVE -
OMITTED BY NOTIFICATION NO. GSR 631,
DATED 23-4-1966.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 91
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
91 DIVIDENDS AND RESERVE
(1) Any dividend, interest or other
moneys payable in cash in respect of shares may be paid by cheque or
warrant sent through the post directed to the registered address of
the holder or, in the case of joint holders, to the registered
address of that one of the joint holders who is first named on the
register of members, or to such person and to such address as the
holder or joint holders may in writing direct.
(2) Every such cheque or warrant shall be
made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 92
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
92 DIVIDENDS AND RESERVE
Any one of two or more joint holders of a
share may give effectual receipts for any dividends, bonuses or
other moneys payable in respect of such share.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 93
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
93 DIVIDENDS AND RESERVE
Notice of any dividend that may have been
declared shall be given to the persons entitled to share therein in
the manner mentioned in the Act.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 94
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
94 DIVIDENDS AND RESERVE
No dividend shall bear interest against
the company.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 95
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
95 ACCOUNTS
(1) The Board shall from time to time
determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places
and under what conditions or regulations, the accounts and books of
the company, or any of them, shall be open to the inspection of
members not being directors.
(2) No member (not being a director)
shall have any right of inspecting any accounts or books or document
of the company except as conferred by law or authorised by the Board
or by the company in general meeting.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 96
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
96 CAPITALISATION OF
PROFITS
(1) The company in general meeting may,
upon the recommendation of the Board, resolve -
(a) that it is desirable to capitalise
any part of the amount for the time being standing to the credit of
any of the company's reserve accounts, or to the credit of the
profit and loss account, or otherwise available for distribution;
and
(b) that such sum be accordingly set free
for distribution in the manner specified in clause (2) amongst the
members who would have been entitled thereto, if distributed by way
of dividend and in the same proportions.
(2) The sum aforesaid shall not be paid
in cash but shall be applied, subject to the provision contained in
clause (3) either in or towards
(i) paying up any amounts for the time
being unpaid on any shares held by such members respectively;
(ii) paying up in full, unissued shares
of the company to be allotted and distributed, credited as fully
paid up, to and amongst such members in the proportions aforesaid;
or
(iii) partly in the way specified in
sub-clause (i) and partly in that specified in sub-clause (ii).
(3) A share premium account and a capital
redemption reserve account may, for the purposes of this regulation,
only be applied in the paying up of unissued shares to be issued to
members of the company as fully paid bonus shares.
(4) The Board shall give effect to the
resolution passed by the company in pursuance of this regulation.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 97
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
97 CAPITALISATION OF
PROFITS
(1) Whenever such a resolution as
aforesaid shall have been passed, the Board shall -
(a) make all appropriations and
applications of the undivided profits resolved to be capitalised
thereby, and all allotments and issues of fully paid shares , if
any; and
(b) generally do all acts and things
required to give effect thereto.
(2) The Board shall have full power -
(a) to make such provision, by the issue
of fractional certificates or by payment in cash or otherwise as it
thinks fit, for the case of shares or debentures becoming
distributable in fractions; and also
(b) to authorise any person to enter, on
behalf of all the members entitled thereto, into an agreement with
the company providing for the allotment to them respectively,
credited as fully paid up, of any further shares to which they may
be entitled upon such Capitalisation, or (as the case may require)
for the payment up by the company on their behalf, by the
application thereto of their respective proportions of the profits
resolved to be capitalised, of the amounts or any part of the
amounts remaining unpaid on their existing shares.
(3) Any agreement made under such
authority shall be effective and binding on all such members.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 98
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
98 WINDING UP
(1) If the company shall be wound up, the
liquidator may, with the sanction of a special resolution of the
company and any other sanction required by the Act, divide amongst
the members, in specie or kind, the whole or any part of the assets
of the company, whether they shall consist of property of the same
kind or not.
(2) For the purpose aforesaid, the
liquidator may set such value as he deems fair upon any property to
be divided as aforesaid and may determine how such division shall be
carried out as between the members or different classes of members.
(3) The liquidator may, with the like
sanction, vest the whole or any part of such assets in trustees upon
such trusts for the benefit of the contributories as the liquidator,
with the like sanction, shall think fit, but so that no member shall
be compelled to accept any shares or other securities whereon there
is any liability.
Sch. I Table A
Regulation 99
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14,
28(1), 29 and 223]
A REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY SHARES
99 INDEMNITY.
Every officer or agent for the time being
of the company shall be indemnified out of the assets of the company
against any liability incurred by him in defending any proceedings,
whether civil or criminal, in which judgment is given in his favour
or in which he is acquitted or in connection with any application
under section 633 in which relief is granted to him by the Court.
Sch. I Table
B
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14, 28(1), 29 and
223]
B MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION OF A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
1st. - The name of the company is "The
Eastern Steam Packet Company Limited".
2nd. - The registered office of the
company will be situated in the State of Bombay.
3rd. -
(a) The main objects to be pursued by the
company on its incorporation are "the conveyance of passengers and
goods in ships or boats between such places as the company may from
time to time determine".
(b) The objects incidental or ancillary
to the attainment of the above main objects are "the acquisition,
construction, building, setting up and provision of establishments
for repairing ships or boats, for the training of personnel required
for the running of ships or boats and the doing of all such other
things as are conducive to the attainment of the foregoing main
objects."
(c) The other objects for which the
company is established are "carrying on the business of carriers by
land and air and the running of hotels for tourists".
4th. - The liability of the members is
limited.
5th. - The share capital of the company
is two hundred thousand rupees, divided into one thousand shares of
two hundred rupees each. We, the several persons whose names and
addressees are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a
company in pursuance of this memorandum of association, and we
respectively agree to take the number of shares in the capital of
the company set opposite our respective names.
------------------------------------------------------------------------Names,
addresses, descriptions and Number of shares occupations of
subscribers. taken by each
subscriber.------------------------------------------------------------------------1.
A.B. of ................, Merchant .............. 2002. C.D. of
................, Merchant .............. 253. E.F. of
................, Merchant .............. 304. G.H. of
................, Merchant .............. 405. I.J. of
................, Merchant .............. 156. K.L. of
................, Merchant .............. 57. M.N. of
................, Merchant .............. 10 -------- Total shares
taken
325------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dated the .... day of ...... 19. Witness to the above signatures
X.Y. of .............
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C
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2(2), 14, 28(1), 29 and
223]
C MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY GUARANTEE AND NOT HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL MEMORANDUM OF
ASSOCIATION
1st. - The name of the company is "The
Mutual Calcutta Marine Association Limited".
2nd. - The registered office of the
company will be situated in the State of West Bengal.
3rd. -
(a) The main objects to be pursued by the
company on its incorporation are "the mutual insurance of ships
belonging to members of the company".
(b) The objects incidental or ancillary
to the attainment of the above main objects are "Providing for the
welfare of employees or ex-employees of the company and the making,
drawing, accepting, endorsing, executing and issuing of any
negotiable or transferable documents and the doing of such other
things as are conducive to the attainment of the foregoing main
objects".
(c) The other objects for which the
company is established are "building, equipping and maintaining
charitable hospitals, running of schools and undertaking any other
social service".
4th. - The liability of the members is
limited.
5th. - Every member of the company
undertakes to contribute to the assets of the company in the event
of its being wound up while he is a member, or within one year after
he ceases to be a member, for payment of the debts and liabilities
of the company contracted before he ceases to be a member, and the
costs, charges and expenses of winding up and for the adjustment of
the rights of the contributories among themselves, such amount as
may be required, not exceeding one hundred rupees. We, the several
persons whose names and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of
being formed into a company, in pursuance of this memorandum of
association.
----------------------------------------------------------------------Names,
addresses, descriptions and occupations of
subscribers----------------------------------------------------------------------1.
A.B. of ..........................., Merchant.2. C.D. of
..........................., Merchant.3. E.F. of
..........................., Merchant.4. G.H. of
..........................., Merchant.5. I.J. of
..........................., Merchant.6. K.L. of
..........................., Merchant.7. M.N. of
...........................,
Merchant.----------------------------------------------------------------------
Dated the ...... day of ......19 Witness to the above signatures
X.Y. of .............
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF A COMPANY
LIMITED BY GUARANTEE AND NOT HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL INTERPRETATION .
(1) In these articles -
(a) "the Act" means the Companies Act,
1956,
(b) "the seal" means the common seal of
the company.
(2) Unless the context otherwise
requires, words or expressions contained in these regulations shall
bear the same meaning as in the Act or any statutory modification
thereof in force at the date at which these regulations become
binding on the company.
MEMBERS .
The number of members with which the
company proposes to be registered is 500, but the Board of directors
may, from time to time, whenever the company or the business of the
company requires it, register an increase of members.
3. The subscribers to the memorandum and
such other persons as the Board shall admit to membership shall be
members of the company.
GENERAL MEETINGS
4. All general meetings other than annual
general meetings shall be called extraordinary general meetings.
5.
(1) The Board may, whenever it thinks
fit, call an extraordinary general meeting.
(2) If at any time there are not within
India directors capable of acting, who are sufficient in number to
form a quorum, any director or any two members of the company may
call an extraordinary general meeting in the same manner as nearly
as possible, as that in which such a meeting may be called by the
Board.
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS
6.
(1) No business shall be transacted at
any general meeting unless a quorum of members is present at the
time when the meeting proceeds to business.
(2) Save as herein otherwise provided,
five members present in person shall be a quorum.
7.
(1) If within half an hour from the time
appointed for holding the meeting a quorum is not present, the
meeting, if called upon the requisition of members, shall be
dissolved.
(2) In any other case, the meeting shall
stand adjourned to the same day in the next week, at the same time
and place, or to such other day and at such other time and place as
the Board may determine.
(3) If at the adjourned meeting a quorum
is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the
meeting, the members present shall be a quorum.
8. The chairman, if any, of the Board
shall preside as chairman at every general meeting of the
company.
9. If there is no such chairman, or if he
is not present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for
holding the meeting, or is unwilling to act as chairman of the
meeting, the directors present shall elect one of their number to be
chairman of the meeting.
10. If at any meeting no director is
willing to act as chairman or if no director is present within
fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting,
the members present shall choose one of their number to be chairman
of the meeting.
11.
(1) The chairman may, with the consent of
any meeting at which a quorum is present, and, shall if so directed
by the meeting, adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place
to place.
(2) No business shall be transacted at
any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the
meeting from which the adjournment took place.
(3) When a meeting is adjourned for
thirty days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given
as in the case of an original meeting.
(4) Save as aforesaid, it shall not be
necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to
be transacted at an adjourned meeting.
12. In the case of an equality of votes,
whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the chairman of the meeting
at which the show of hands takes place, or at which the poll is
demanded, shall be entitled to a second or casting vote.
13. Any business other than that upon
which a poll has been demanded may be proceeded with, pending the
taking of the poll.
VOTES OF MEMBERS
14. Every member shall have one vote.
15. A member of unsound mind, or in
respect of whom an order has been made by any Court having
jurisdiction in lunacy, may vote, whether on a show of hands or on a
poll, by his committee or other legal guardian, and any such
committee or guardian may, on a poll, vote by proxy.
16. No member shall be entitled to vote
at any general meeting unless all sums presently payable by him to
the company have been paid.
17.
(1) No objection shall be raised to the
qualification of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned
meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered, and
every vote not disallowed at such meeting shall be valid for all
purposes.
(2) Any such objection made in due time
shall be referred to the chairman of the meeting, whose decision
shall be final and conclusive.
18. A vote given in accordance with the
terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid, notwithstanding the
previous death or insanity of the principal or the revocation of the
proxy or of the authority under which the proxy was executed
:
Provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity,
revocation or transfer shall have been received by the company at
its office before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned
meeting at which the proxy is used.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
19. The number of the directors and the
names of the first directors shall be determined in writing by the
subscribers of the memorandum or a majority of them.
20.
(1) The remuneration of the directors
shall, in so faras it consists of a monthly payment, be deemed to
accrue from day to day.
(2) The directors may also be paid all
travelling, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by them -
(a) in
attending and returning from meetings of the Board or any committee
thereof or general meetings of the company; or
(b) in
connection with the business of the company.
PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS OF BOARD
21.
(1) The Board of directors may meet for
the despatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate its
meetings, as it thinks fit.
(2) A director may, and the manager or
secretary on the requisition of a director shall, at any time,
summon a meeting of the Board.
22.
(1) Save as otherwise expressly provided
in this Act, questions arising at any meeting of the Board shall be
decided by a majority of votes.
(2) In case of an equality of votes, the
chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
23. The continuing directors may act
notwithstanding any vacancy in the Board; but, if and so long as
their number is reduced below the quorum fixed by the Act for a
meeting of the Board, the continuing directors or director may Act
for the purpose of increasing the number of directors to that fixed
for the quorum, or of summoning a general meeting of the company,
but for no other purpose.
24.
(1) The Board may elect a chairman of its
meetings and determine the period for which he is to hold office.
(2) If no such chairman is elected, or if
at any meeting the chairman is not present within five minutes after
the time appointed for holding the meeting, the directors present
may choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.
25.
(1) The Board may, subject to the
provisions of the Act, delegate any of its powers to committees
consisting of such member or members of its body as it thinks fit.
(2) Any committee so formed shall, in the
exercise of the powers so delegated, conform to any regulations that
may be imposed on it by the Board.
26.
(1) A committee may elect a chairman of
its meetings.
(2) If no such chairman is elected, or at
any meeting the chairman is not present within five minutes after
the time appointed for holding the meeting, the members present may
choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.
27.
(1) A committee may meet and adjourn as
it thinks proper.
(2) Questions arising at any meeting of a
committee shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members
present, and in case of an equality of votes, the chairman shall
have a second or casting vote.
28. All acts done by any meeting of the
Board or of a committee thereof, or by any person acting as a
director, shall, notwithstanding that it may be afterwards
discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any one
or more of such directors or of any person acting as aforesaid, or
that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every
such director or such person had been duly appointed and was
qualified to be a director.
29. Save as otherwise expressly provided
in the Act, a resolution in writing, signed by all the members of
the Board or a committee thereof for the time being entitled to
receive notice of a meeting of the Board or committee, shall be as
valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the
Board or committee, duly convened and held.
MANAGER OR SECRETARY
30.
(1) A manager or secretary may be
appointed by the Board for such term, at such remuneration and upon
such conditions as it may think fit; and any manager or secretary so
appointed may be removed by the Board.
(2) A director may be appointed as
manager or secretary.
31. A provision of the Act or these
regulations requiring or authorising a thing to be done by or to a
director and the manager or secretary shall not be satisfied by its
being done by or to the same person acting both as director and as,
or in place of, the manager or secretary.
THE SEAL
32.
(1) The Board shall provide for the safe
custody of the seal.
(2) The seal of the company shall not be
affixed to any instrument except by the authority of a resolution of
the Board of directors, and except in the presence of at least two
directors and of the secretary or such other person as the Board may
appoint for the purpose; and those two directors and the secretary
or other person as aforesaid shall sign every instrument to which
the seal of the company is so affixed in their presence.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------Names,
addresses, descriptions and occupations of
subscribers-----------------------------------------------------------------------1.
A.B. of .............................., Merchant.2. C.D. of
.............................., Merchant.3. E.F. of
.............................., Merchant.4. G.H. of
.............................., Merchant.5. I.J. of
.............................., Merchant.6. K.L. of
.............................., Merchant.7. M.N. of
..............................,
Merchant.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Dated the ....... day of ...... 19.... Witness to the above
signatures X.Y. of ...............
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TABLE
D
Memorandum and Articles of Association of a Company Limited
by Guarantee and having a Share Capital
Memorandum of
Association
1st.The name of the company is "The snowy Range
Hotel Company Limited."
2nd.The registered office of the
company will be situate in the State of West Bengal.
3rd.The
objects for which the company is established are "the facilitating
of travelling in the Snowy Range, by provided hotels
and
conveyances by sea and by land for the accommodation of Travellers
and the doing of all such other things as are incidental
or
conducive the attainment of the above object".
4th.The
liability of the members is limited.
5th.Every member of the
company undertakes to contribute to the assets of the company in the
event of its being wound up
while he is a member, or within one
year after he ceases to be a member for payment of the debts and
liabilities of the company,
contracted before he ceases to be a
member, and the costs, charges and expenses of winding up the same
for the adjustment of
the rights of the contributories among
themselves, such amount as may be required not exceeding fifty
rupees.
6th.The share capital of the company shall consist
of five hundred thousand rupees, divided into five thousand shares
of one
hundred rupees each.
We, the several persons whose
names and addresses are subscribed and desirous of being formed into
a company, in pursuance
of this memorandum of association, and we
respectively agree to take the number of shares in the capital of
the company set
opposite our respective names.Names, Addresses,
Descriptions and Occupations of Subscribers, Number of shares taken
by each
subscriber.
1. A.B.of
.., Merchant . . . . .
200
2. C.D.of
.., " . . . . . 25
3. E.F.of
.., " .
. . . . 30
4. G.H.of
.., " . . . . . 40
5. I.J.of
..
.., " . . . . . 15
6. K.L.of
.., " . . . . .
5
7. M.N.of
.., " . . . . . 10
-------
Total shares
taken . . . . . 325
Dated the
day of
19.
Witness to the above signatures
X.Y.of
Articles of Association of a Company Limited by
Guarantee and having a Share Capital
1.The number of members
with which the company proposed to be registered is 100, but the
directors may from time to time
register an increase of
members.
2.All the articles of Table A in Schedule I annexed
to the Companies Act, 1956, shall be deemed to be incorporated with
these
articles and to apply to the company.
Names,
Addresses, Descriptions and Occupations of Subscribers.
1.
A.B.of
.., Merchant
2. C.D.of
.., "
3. E.F.of
.., "
4. G.H.of
.., "
5. I.J.of
..
..,
"
6. K.L.of
.., "
7. M.N.of
.., "
Dated the
day of
19.
Witness to the above
signatures
X.Y.of
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TABLE E
Memorandum and
Articles of Association of an Unlimited Company.
Memorandum
of Association.
1st.The name of the company is "The Patent
Stereotype Company".
2nd.The registered office of the
company will be situate in the State of West Bengal.
3rd.The
objects for which the company is established are "the working of a
patent method for founding and casting stereotype
plates of which
method P.Q., of Bombay, is the sole patentee."
We, the
several persons whose names re subscribed, are desirous of being
formed into a company in pursuance of this
memorandum of
association, and we respectively agree to take the number of shares
in the capital of the company set opposite
our respective
names.
Names, Addresses, Descriptions and Occupations Number
of shares taken by each
of Subscribers subscriber.
1.
A.B.of
.., Merchant . . . . . 3
2. C.D.of
.., " . . .
. . 2
3. E.F.of
.., " . . . . . 1
4. G.H.of
.., "
. . . . . 2
5. I.J.of
..
.., " . . . . . 2
6. K.L.of
.., " . . . . . 1
7. M.N.of
.., " . . . . .
1
-------
Total shares taken . . . . . 12
Dated the
day of
19.
Witness to the above
signatures
X.Y.of
Articles of Association of
Unlimited Company
1.The number of members with which the
company proposes to be registered is 20, but the Board may from time
to time
register an increase of members.
2.The share
capital of the company is twenty thousand rupees, divided into
twenty shares of one thousand rupees each.
3.The company may
by special resolution
(a) increase the share capital by such
sum to be divided into shares of such amount as the resolution may
prescribe;
(b) consolidate its shares into shares of a larger
amount than its existing shares;
(c) sub-divide its shares
into shares of a smaller amount than its existing shares;
(d)
cancel any shares which at the date of the passing of the resolution
have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person;
(e)
reduce its share capital in any way.
4.All the articles of
Table A in Schedule I to the Companies Act, 1956, except articles
(36, 37, 38, 44, 45 and 46) shall be
deemed to be incorporated
with these articles and to apply to the company.
Names,
Addresses, Descriptions and Occupations of Subscribers.
1.
A.B.of
.., Merchant
2. C.D.of
.., "
3. E.F.of
.., "
4. G.H.of
.., "
5. I.J.of
..
..,
"
6. K.L.of
.., "
7. M.N.of
.., "
Dated the
day of
19.
Witness to the above
signatures
X.Y.of
Sch. I
Table F