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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 Schedule 5

Title: Schedule 5

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....than those listed above) I I I II I I I _________________________________________________________ We certify that: (a) the return states the facts as they stood on the date of the annual general meeting aforesaid, correctly and completely; (b) since the date of the last annual return the transfer of all shares, debentures the issue of all further certificates of shares and debentures has been appropriately recorded in the books maintained for the purpose; 2[(c) the whole of amounts envisaged in clauses (a) to (e) of Sub-section (2) of Section 205C of the Companies Act, 1956 remaining unpaid or unclaimed for a period of seven years from the date they become payable by a company have been credited to the Investor Education and Protection Fund :] (d) the company has not, since the date of the annual general meeting with reference to which the last return was submitted, or in the case of a first return since the date of the incorporation of the company, issued any invitation to the public to subscribe for any shares or debentures of the company; (e) where the annual return discloses the fact that the number of members of the company exceeds fifty, the excess consists.....

Companies Act, 1956 Part 6

Title: Management and Administration

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....Act, 1996, shall be deemed to be an index of members and register and index of debenture-holders, as the case may be, for the purposes of this Act.] ____________________ 1. Inserted by Act 22 of 1996, Section 30 and Schedule (w.r.e.f. 20-9-1995). Section 153 - Trusts not to be entered on register No notice of any trust, express, implied or constructive, shall be entered on the register of members or of debenture-holders1[***] ____________________ 1. The words "or be receivable by the Registrar" omitted by Act 53 of 1963, Section 6 (w.e.f. 1-1-1964). Section 153A - Appointment of public trustee 1[153A. Appointment of public trustee 2[(1)] The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint a person as public trustee to discharge the functions and to exercise the rights and powers conferred on him by or under this Act.] 3[(2) The provision of this section shall not apply on and after the commencement of the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2000.] ____________________ 1. Inserted by Act 53 of 1963, Section 7 (w.e.f. 1-1-1964). 2. Section 153A renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 53 of 2000, Section 63 (w.e.f. 13-12-2000)......

Companies Act, 1956 Chapter 2

Title: Directors

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....) Sub-section ( 1 ) shall not apply to a private company, unless it is a subsidiary of a public company. ______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 31 of 1988, Section 45 (w.e.f. 15-6-1988). 2. Inserted by Act 65 of 1960, Section 85 (w.e.f. 28-12-1960). Section 258 - Right of company to increase or reduce the number of directors 1[***] Subject to the provisions of sections 252 , 255 and 259 , a company in general me eting may, by ordinary resolution, increase or reduce the number of its directors within the limits fixed in that behalf by its articles. ______________________ 1. The brackets and figure "(1) omitted by Act 36 of 1957, Section 3 and Schedule II." Section 259 - Increase in number of directors to require Government sanction In the case of a public company or a private company which is a subsidiary of a public company, any increase in the number of its directors, except- (a) in the case of a company which was in existence on the 21 st day of July, 1951 , an increase which was within the permissible maximum under its articles as in force on that date, and (b) in the case of a company which came or may come into existence after that date, an.....

Companies Act, 1956 Section 303

Title: Register of Directors, Etc.

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....Section 110, for "whose instruction" ( w.e.f. 28-12-1960). 6. Substituted by Act 65 of 1960, Section 110, for "a return in the prescribed form" ( w.e.f. 28-12-1960). 7. Substituted by Act 65 of 1960, Section 110, for "a notification in the prescribed form" ( w.e.f. 28-12-1960). 8. The words "or in any of the particulars contained in the register" omitted by Act 31 of 1965, Section 41 ( w.e.f. 15-10-1965). 9. Substituted by Act 31 of 1965, Section 62 and Schedule, for "twenty-eight" ( w.e.f. 15-10-1965). 10. Proviso omitted by Act 31 of 1965, Section 41 ( w.e.f. 15-10-1965). 11. Substituted by The Companies (Amendment) Act, 2000, Section 148, for "fifty rupees" (w.e.f. 13-12-2000).

Geneva Conventions Act, 1960 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....(d) procedural matters relating to legal representation, appeals, etc. 3. The existing law on the subject is to be found in the Geneva Convention Act, 1911 (an Act of the United Kingdom) as applied to India by the Gevena Convention Act, 1911 (British India) Order-in-Council dated the 24th October, 1916, and the Geneva Convention Implementing Act, 1936 (14 of 1936). The provisions of these Acts, however, are confined to extending protection to the two emblems, namely, the Red Cross and the Geneva Cross. 4. The Bill seeks to implement the Conventions in so far as it is necessary so to do and, at the same time, consolidates the law on the subject by repealing the United Kingdom Act of 1911andthe Central Act 14 of 1936and incorporating their provisions in the Bill." - Gaz. of Ind., 1959, Extra. Pt. II, S. 2, p. 1098. An Act to enable effect to be given to certain International Conventions done at Geneva on the twelfth day of August, 1949, to which India is a party, and for purposes connected therewith. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Eleventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :- -Geneva Conventions of 12th August, 1949, were ratified by the President on the 16th October,.....

Companies Act, 1956 Chapter 12

Title: Reconversion of Producer Company to Inter-state Co-operative Society

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....Act, 1913 (7 of 1913), or in any Act repeated by that Act shall be read as references to the corresponding provision, if any, contained in this Act. COMPANIES ACT, 1956Part 11 - COMPANIES INCORPORATED OUTSIDE INDIA Section 591 to 602 - Provisions as to establishment of places of business in India Section 591 - Application of sections 592 to 602 to foreign companies 1 [(1)] Sections 592 to 602, both inclusive, shall apply to all foreign companies, that is to say, companies falling under the following two classes, namely:- (a) companies incorporated outside India which, after the commencement of this Act, establish a place of business within India; and (b) companies incorporated outside India which have, before the commencement of this Act, established a place of business within India and continue to have an established place of business within India at the commencement of this Act. 2 [(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where not less than fifty per cent of the paid up share capital (whether equity or preference or partly equity and partly preference) of a company incorporated outside India and having an established place of business in.....

Companies Act, 1956 Part 11

Title: Companies Incorporated Outside India

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....etc. Any failure by a foreign company to comply with any of the foregoing provisions of this Part shall not affect the validity of any contract, dealing or transaction entered into by the company or its liability to be sued in respect thereof; but the company shall not be entitled to bring any suit, claim any set-off, make any counter-claim or institute any legal proceeding in respect of any such contract, dealing or transaction, until it has complied with the provisions of this Part. Section 600 - Registration of charges, appointment of receiver and books of account (1) The provisions of Part V (sections 124 to 145); shall apply mutatis mutandis to-- (a) charges on properties in India which are created by a foreign company after the 15th day of January, 1937; and (b) charges on property in India which is acquired by any foreign company after the day aforesaid: Provided that where a charge is created, or the completion of the acquisition of the property takes place, outside India, sub-section (5) of section 125 and the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 127 shall have effect as if the property, wherever situated, were situated outside India. (2) The.....

Companies Act, 1956 Section 592

Title: Documents, Etc., to Be Delivered to Registrar by Foreign Companies Carrying on Business in India

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....office: Provided that, where all the partners in a firm are joint secretaries of the company, the name and principal office of the firm may be stated instead of the particulars mentioned in clause (b) of this sub-section, (3) Clauses (2) and (3) of the Explanation to sub-section (1) of section 303 shall apply for the purpose of the construction of references in sub-section (2) to present and former names and surnames as they apply for the purposes of the construction of such references in sub-section (1) of section 303. (4) Foreign companies, other than those mentioned in sub-section (1), shall, if they have not delivered to the Registrar before the commencement of this Act the documents and particulars specified in sub-section (1) of section 277 of the Indian Companies Act, 1913 (7 of 1913), continue to be subject to the obligation to deliver those documents and particulars in accordance with that Act. _____________________ 1. Substituted by Act 31 of 1965, Section 62 and Schedule, for "one month" (w.e.f. 15-10-1965).

Geneva Convention Act 1960 Schedule III

Title: Third Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1960

.....Parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions:- (Conflicts not of an international character.) (1) Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria. To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:- (a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture; (b) taking of hostages; (c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment; (d) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognised as indispensable by civilized peoples. (2) The wounded and sick shall be collected and.....