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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Companies Act, 1956 Section 405

Addition of Respondents to Application Under Section 397 or 398

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Companies Act, 1956 Section 405 is part of Companies Act, 1956 - Addition of Respondents to Application Under Section 397 or 398. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

If the managing director or any other director1[***] or the manager, of a company, or any other person, who has not been impleaded as a respondent to any application under section 397 or 398 applies to be added as a respondent thereto, the2[Tribunal] shall, if it is satisfied that there is sufficient cause for doing so, direct that he may be added as a respondent accordingly.

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1. The words "the managing agent, secretaries and treasurers," omitted by Act 53 of 2000, Section 181 (w.e.f.13-12-2000).

2 . Substituted by Act 31 of 1988, Section 67, for "Court" (w.e.f. 31- 5-1991) and again Substituted by Act 11 of 2003, Section 44 for "Company Law Board".

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Section Section 405 of the Companies Act, 1956 (Addition of Respondents to Application Under Section 397 or 398) 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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