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Preference Shares (Regulation of Dividends) Act, 1960 Section 3

Title: Regulation of Dividends on Preference Shares in Certain Cases

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....the stipulated dividend in the cases refereed to in sub-section (1), or (ii) by eleven per cent of the stipulated dividend in the cases referred to in sub-section (3). (5) For the purposes of sub-section (1), sub-section (3) and sub-section (4), any reference therein to the stipulated dividend shall, in respect of a preference share issued and subscribed for on or before the 31st March, 1959, be construed as a reference to the stipulated dividend as on that day. (6) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that nay reference in this section and section 4A to deduction made form a dividend on account of income-tax payable by the company does not include nay amount deducted by the company from the dividend under Section 194 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961).

Preference Shares (Regulation of Dividends) Act, 1960 Preamble 1

Title: Preference Shares (Regulation of Dividends) Act, 1960

State: Central

Year: 1960

PREFERENCE SHARES (Regulation of Dividends) Act, 1960 [Act, No. 63 OF 1960] PREAMBLE An Act to regulate dividends on preference shares of certain companies. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Eleventh Year of the Republic of India as follows: -

Preference Shares (Regulation of Dividends) Act, 1960 Section 6

Title: Act Not to Apply to Participating Preference Dividends

State: Central

Year: 1960

Nothing contained in section 3 or section 4 shall apply to such part of any dividend on preference shares as is referred to in clause (i) of the Explanation to sub-section (1) of section 85 of the Companies Act.

Preference Shares (Regulation of Dividends) Act, 1960 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the Companies Act shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act SECTION 03: REGULATION OF DIVIDENDS ON PREFERENCE SHARES IN CERTAIN CASES (1) Where the stipulated dividend in respect of a preference share of a company issued and subscribed for before the 1st April, 1960,- (a) is specified to be free of income-tax and no deduction is made therefrom on account of the income-tax payable by the company, or (b) was being paid before the 1st April, 1960, without any deduction there- from on account of the income-tax payable by the company, notwithstanding the absence of any specification that the dividend would be free of income-tax, every such share shall, as respects dividends declared after the commencement of this Act, carry a preferential right to be paid without any deduction aforesaid such amount as would exceed the stipulated dividend by thirty per cent thereof. (2) Where the stipulated dividend in respect of a preference share of a company issued and subscribed for after the 31st March, 1959, and before the 1st of April, 1960, is free of income-tax and the company, besides paying the.....

Preference Shares (Regulation of Dividends) Act, 1960 Schedule I

Title: Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....per cent of the aggregate of (i) the stipulated dividend, and (ii) an amount equal to eleven per cent of the stipulated divided as specified in sub-section (3) of section 3", the following shall be substituted, namely: - "Twenty-seven and a half per cent of the stipulated dividend: Provided that i a case where the preference shares in respect of which the dividend is declared or paid form part of the preference share capital of a company which, in respect of the greater part of its total income, is entitled to a deduction from tax chargeable form it under the Income-tax Act, 1961(43 of 1961), under a notification issued by the Central Government under section 294A of that Act, the reference to twenty-seven and a half per cent of the stipulated dividend shall be construed as a reference to-- (i) where the stipulated divided din respect of such preference share is declared or paid in respect of the previous year relevant to the assessment year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1963, the said twenty-seven and a half per cent as reduced by forty-five per cent thereof; (ii) where such dividend is declared or paid in respect of the previous year relevant to the assessment.....

Preference Shares (Regulation of Dividends) Act, 1960 Section 1

Title: Short Title and Commencement

State: Central

Year: 1960

(1) This Act may be called the Preference Shares (Regulation of Dividends) Act, 1960. (2) It extends to the whole of India: Provided that it shall not apply to the state of Jammu and Kashmir except to the extend to which the provision of this Act relate to the regulation of dividends on preference shares of banking and insurance companies and financial corporations. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2) the provision of this Act shall, in their application to the Union territory of Pondicherry, have effect subject to the modifications specified in the Schedule.

Preference Shares (Regulation of Dividends) Act, 1960 Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1960

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -- (a) "Companies Act," means the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956); (b) "company" means an Indian company as defined in clause (26) of section 2 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) and includes a company referred to in sub-clause (ii) of clause (17) of the said section which has made arrangements for the declaration and payment of dividends within Indian in accordance with the rules made under the said Act; (c) "preference share" means a share which carries, as respects dividends, a preferential right to be paid a fixed amount or an amount calculated at a fixed rate; (d) "previous year" has the same meaning as in the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961); (e) "stipulated dividend", in relation to a preference share, means the fixed amount or the amount calculated at fixed rate which the holder of such share has a preferential right to be paid as dividend; (f) all other word and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the Companies Act shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act.

Preference Shares (Regulation of Dividends) Act, 1960 Section 4

Title: Special Provisions in Relation to Companies Where a Portion of their Income is Not Chargeable to Income-tax

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....being agricultural income, then, for the purpose of the increase in the dividend in relation to any such preference share under the provisions of section 3, the increase of thirty per cent or eleven per cent referred to therein shall be taken to be such proportion of the said thirty per cent or eleven per cent, as the case may be, as the total amount of the profits and gain of the company excluding the portion of the profits and gains which is so exempt in respect of the relevant period bears to the total amount of the profits and gains thereof in respect of that period. Explanation : For the purpose of this section, "relevant period", in relation to the profits and gain of a company, shall mean-- (a) the previous years relevant to such of the three assessment years as immediately precede the assessment year ending on the 31st March, 1961, and in each of which the net result of the computation of profits and gains of the company has not been loss or where there are only two such years, such two years, or where there is only one such year, such one year; or (b) in any case where clause (a) is not applicable, the previous year relevant to the assessment year ending on the.....

Preference Shares (Regulation of Dividends) Act, 1960 Section 4A

Title: Deduction of Income-tax

State: Central

Year: 1960

Where the stipulated dividend in respect of a preference share of a company-- (a) is specified to be subject o income-tax and a deduction is made therefrom on account of the income-tax payable by the company, or (b) is being paid subject to a deduction therefrom on account of the income-tax payable by the company, not withstanding the absence of any specification that the dividend would be subject to income-tax, such deduction made by the company form any divided declared after the 28th day of February, 1966 shall in no case exceed twenty-seven and a half per cent of the aggregate of -- (i) the stipulated dividend, and (ii) an amount equal to eleven per cent of the stipulated dividend as specified in sub-section (3) of section 3.

Preference Shares (Regulation of Dividends) Act, 1960 Section 5

Title: Overriding Effect of Act

State: Central

Year: 1960

(1) The provisions of this Act shall have effect not withstanding anything to the contrary contained in any law for the time being in force or in the memorandum or articles of a company or in any agreement between the company and its shareholders or in any resolution passed by the company in a general meeting or by its Board of directors. (2) Not withstanding anything contained in this Act, a company may, in the manner provided in section 106 of the Companies Act, increase the amount of dividend in respect of a preference shall beyond the limit specified in section 3 or section 4 of this Act.