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Companies Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....as in the (Depositories Act, 1996) (22 of 1996); (12B) "derivative" has the same meaning as in clause (aa) of (S.2 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956) (42 of 1956);] (13) "director" includes any person occupying the position of director, by whatever name called; (14) "District Court" means the principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction in a district, but does not include a High Court in the exercise of its ordinary original civil jurisdiction ; [(14A) "dividend" includes any interim dividend;] (15) "document" includes summons, notice, requisition, order, other legal process, and registers, whether issued, sent or kept in pursuance of this or any other Act or otherwise ; [(15A) "employees stock option" means the option given to the whole-time directors, officers or employees of a company, which gives such directors, officers or employees the benefit or right to purchase or subscribe at a future date, the securities offered by the company at a pre-determined price;] (16) "existing company" means an existing company as defined in (section 3); (17) "financial year" means, in relation to any body corporate, the period in respect of which.....

Companies Act, 1956 Part 7

Title: Winding Up

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....given as the1[Tribunal] thinks reasonable. _____________________ 1. Substituted Act 11 of 2003, Section 54, for "Court". 2. Substituted by Act 11 of 2003, Section 54. 3. Substituted by Act 65 of 1960, Section 162, for "clauses (b), (c) and (e)" (w.e.f. 28-12-1960). 4. Substituted by Act 11 of 2003, Section 54, for "and (f)". 5. Substituted by Act 65 of 1960, Section 162, for "an inspector" (w.e.f. 28-12-1960). Section 439A - Statement of affairs to be filed on winding up of a company 1[ 439A. Statement of affairs to be filed on winding up of a company ( 1 ) Every company shall file with the Tribunal a statement of its affairs alongwith the petition for winding up. ( 2 ) Where a company oppose a petition for its winding up, it sh all file with the Tribunal a statement of its affairs. ( 3 ) The statement of affairs referred to in sub-section ( 1 ) or sub-section ( 2 ) shall be accompanied by-- (a) the last known addresses of all directors and company, secretary of such company; (b) the details of location of assets of the company and their value; (c) the details of all debtors and creditors with their complete addresses; (d) the details of workmen.....

Companies Act, 1956 Chapter 5

Title: Provisions Applicable to Every Mode of Winding Up

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....that period; (b) the expression "accrued holiday remuneration" includes, in relation to any person, all sums which, by virtue either of his contract of employment or of any enactment (including any order made or direction given under any enactment), are payable on account of the remuneration which would, in the ordinary course, have become payable to him in respect of a period of holiday, had his employment with the company continued until he became entitled to be allowed the holiday; 5[***] 6[(bb) the expression "employees" does not include a workman; and] (c) the expression "the relevant date" means- (i) in the case of a company ordered to be wound up compulsorily, the date of the appointment (or first appointment) of a provisional liquidator, or if no such appointment was made, the date of the winding up order, unless in either case the company had commenced to be wound up voluntarily before that date; and (ii) in any case where sub-clause (i) does not apply, the date of the passing of the resolution for the voluntary winding up of the company. (9) This section shall not apply in the case of a winding up where the date referred to in sub-section (5) of section.....

Companies Act, 1913 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1913

.....its ordinary original civil jurisdiction; (7) "existing company "means a company formed and registered under the (Companies Act, 1866), or under any Act or Acts repealed thereby, or under (Companies Act, 1882): (8) " Insurance company " means a company that carries on the business of insurance either solely or in common with any other business or businesses: (9) "manager " means a person who, subject to the control and direction of the directors has the management of the whole affairs of a company, and includes a director or any other person occupying the position of a manager by whatever name called and whether under a contract of service or not: (9A) " managing agent " means a person, firm or company entitled to the management of the whole affairs of a company by virtue of an agreement with the company, and under the control and direction of the directors except to the extent, if any, otherwise provided for in the agreement and includes any person, firm or company occupying such position by whatever name called : Explanation.-If a person occupying the position of a managing agent calls himself a manager he shall nevertheless be regarded as managing agent and not as manager for.....

Companies Act, 1956 Section 529

Title: Application of Insolvency Rules in Winding Up of Insolvent Companies

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....the same proportion as the workmen's portion in relation to the security bears to the value of the security.] 3[(3) For the purposes of this section, section 529A and section 530,- (a) "workmen", in relation to a company, means the employees of the company, being workmen within the meaning of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947); (b) "workmen's dues", in relation to a company, means the aggregate of the following sums due from the company to its workmen, namely:- (i) all wages or salary including wages payable for time or piece work and salary earned wholly or in part by way of commission of any workman, in respect of services rendered to the company and any compensation payable to any workman under any of the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947); (ii) all accrued holiday remuneration becoming payable to any workman, or in the case of his death to any other person in his right, on the termination of his employment before, or by the effect of, the winding up order or resolution; (iii) unless the company is being wound up voluntarily merely for the purposes of reconstruction or of amalgamation with another company, or unless the.....

Companies Act, 2013, Section 325

Title: Application of Insolvency Rules in Winding Up of Insolvent Companies

State: Central

Year: 2013

.....expenses the same proportion as the workmen's portion in relation to the security bears to the value of the security. (3) For the purposes of this section, section 326 and section 327,-- (a) "workmen'', in relation to a company, means the employees of the company, being workmen within the meaning of clause (s) of section 2 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947); (b) "workmen's dues'', in relation to a company, means the aggregate of the following sums due from the company to its workmen, namely:-- (i) all wages or salary including wages payable for time or piece work and salary earned wholly or in part by way of commission of any workman in respect of services rendered to the company and any compensation payable to any workman under any of the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947); (ii) all accrued holiday remuneration becoming payable to any workman or, in the case of his death, to any other person in his right on the termination of his employment before or by the effect of the winding up order or resolution; (iii) unless the company is being wound up voluntarily merely for the purposes of reconstruction or amalgamation with another.....

Companies Act, 1956 Part 5

Title: Registration of Charges

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....released from the charge or has ceased to form part of the company's property or undertaking; enter in the register of charges a memorandum of satisfaction in whole or in part, or of the fact that part of the property or undertaking has been released from the charge or has ceased to form part of the company's property or undertaking, as the case may be, notwithstanding the fact that no intimation has been received by him from the company. Section 140 - Copy of memorandum of satisfaction to be furnished to company Where the Registrar enters a memorandum of satisfaction in whole or in part, in pursuance of section 138 or 139, he shall furnish the company with a copy of the memorandum. Section 141 - Rectification by Central Government of register of charges 1 [141. Rectification by Central Government of register of charges- (1) The Central Government, on being satisfied- (a) that the omission to file with the Registrar the particulars of any charge created by a company or of any charge subject to which any property has been acquired by the company or of any modification of any such charge or of any issue of debentures of a series, or that the omission to register any.....

Companies Act, 2013, Schedule

Title: Schedule I

State: Central

Year: 2013

..... TABLE - F ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES Interpretation I. (1) In these regulations-- (a) "the Act" means the Companies Act, 2013, (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. Share capital and variation of rights II. 1. Subject to the provisions of the Act and these Articles, the shares in the capital of the company shall be under the control of the Directors who may issue, allot or otherwise dispose of the same or any of them to such persons, in such proportion and on such terms and conditions and either at a premium or at par and at such time as they may from time to time think fit. 2. (i) Every person whose name is entered as a member in the register of members shall be entitled to receive within two months after incorporation, in case of subscribers to the memorandum or after allotment or within one month after the application for the registration of.....

Companies Act, 2013, Section 326

Title: Overriding Preferential Payments

State: Central

Year: 2013

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or any other law for the time being in force, in the winding up of a company,-- (a) workmen's dues; and (b) debts due to secured creditors to the extent such debts rank under clause (iii) of the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 325 pari passu with such dues, shall be paid in priority to all other debts: Provided that in case of the winding up of a company, the sums towards wages or salary referred to in sub-clause (i) of clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 325, which are payable for a period of two years preceding the winding up order or such other period as may be prescribed, shall be paid in priority to all other debts (including debts due to secured creditors), within a period of thirty days of sale of assets and shall be subject to such charge over the security of secured creditors as may be prescribed. (2) The debts payable under the proviso to sub-section (1) shall be paid in full before any payment is made to secured creditors and thereafter debts payable under that sub-section shall be paid in full, unless the assets are insufficient to meet them, in which case they shall abate in equal proportions.

Companies Act, 2013, Section 320

Title: Distribution of Property of Company

State: Central

Year: 2013

Subject to the provisions of this Act as to overriding preferential payments under section 326, the assets of a company shall, on its winding up, be applied in satisfaction of its liabilities pari passu and, subject to such application, shall, unless the articles otherwise provide, be distributed among the members according to their rights and interests in the company.