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Companies Act, 1956 Section 160

Annual Return to Be Made by Company Not Having a Share Capital

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Companies Act, 1956 Section 160 is part of Companies Act, 1956 - Annual Return to Be Made by Company Not Having a Share Capital. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

(1) Every company not having a share capital shall, within1[sixty] days from the day on which each of the annual general meetings referred to in section 166 is held, prepare and file with the Registrar a return stating the following particulars as they stood on that day: -

(a) the address of the registered office of the company;

2[(aa) the names of members and the respective dates on which they became members and the names of persons who ceased to be members since the date of the annual general meeting of the immediately preceding year, and the dates on which they so ceased;]

(b) all such particulars with respect to the persons who, at the date of the return, where the directors of the company3[***]4[its manager and its secretary] as are set out in section 303.

(2) There shall be annexed to the return a statement containing particulars of the total amount of the indebtedness of the company as on the day aforesaid in respect of all charges which are or were required to be registered with the Registrar under this Act or under any previous companies law, or which would have been required to be registered under this Act if they had been created after the commencement of this Act.

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1. Substituted by Act 31 of 1965, Section 62 and Schedule, for "forty-two" (w.e.f. 15-10-1965).

2. Inserted by Act 65 of 1960, Section 39 (w.e.f. 28-12-1960).

3. The words "its managing agent, it secretaries and treasurers" omitted by Act 53 of 2000, Section 69 (w.e.f. 13-12-2000).

4. Substituted by Act 65 of 1960, Section 39, for "and its manager" (w.e.f. 28-12-1960).

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What does Companies Act, 1956 Section 160 provide?

Section Section 160 of the Companies Act, 1956 (Annual Return to Be Made by Company Not Having a Share Capital) is reproduced on this page as part of the Companies Act, 1956. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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