Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
OF
COPERATE BUSINESS LAW
ON
ELECTRICAL GOODS
Submitted To:-
Submitted By:-
MR.SUMIT goyal
Abbas Ansari
L.S.M (L.P.U.)
RS1904A24
LOVELY PROFESSIONAL
UNIVERSITY
TERM PAPER
INTRODUCTION
A company, formed and registered under the Company Act, is regarded by law as a
single person, having specified rights and obligations. The law confers on a company a
distinct legal personality, with perpetual succession and a common seal.
OBJECTIVE OF THIS PAPER
The objective of this paper is to grasp, assimilate and comprehend the application of
the Corporate Business Law being practiced and its impact on day to day operations of the
Business in respect of the Contract act.
In this paper we will discuss how to start a new electrical goods company
hypothetically specifying its name, registration procedure in detail, the objectives, and legal
formalities of the forming a company. According to the nature of the business, we will also
have to make an offer and enter into different contracts with any 2 other groups through
invitation following all the essential elements as stipulated under the contract act 1872.
THE ESSENTIAL STEPS FOR THE FORMATION OF A
COMPANY
1. The Memo and the Article must be prepared. These two documents must be filed when
the application is made for the registration and incorporation of the company. The
Companies Act lays down rules regarding the preparation of the memorandum.
Schedule I to the Act of 1956 contains four model forms for use in different cases.
4. The company must be registered in accordance with the provision of the companies
Act , 1956 and a certificate of incorporation must be obtained.
5. The prospectus or the statement in lieu of prospectus must be issued and registered
with the registrar.
6. The minimum subscription must be raised and therefore the allotment of shares must
be made.
7. The certificate for the commencement of business must be obtained from the Registrar.
PROCEDURE OF REGISTRATION
For the registration of a company, the following documents, together with the
necessary fees, must be submitted to the registrar of companies of the state in which the
registered office of the company will be situated-Sec 33.
3. A declaration by any of the following persons, stating that all the requirements of the
act have been compiled with an advocate, an attorney a pleader, a chartered
accountant, or a person named in the articles as director, manager, or secretary of the
company.
4. The duly signed list of persons have consented to be directors of the company, their
consent in writing and the signed agreement with every such director to take the
number of shares required to qualify as directors of the company. These are not
required in the case of private companies and the companies not having a share capital.
5. The registration fees of a company is fixed on the graduated scale on the amount of
nominal capital or the number of members. There is also a filing fee per document.
If the Registrar is satisfied that all the required documents of the act have been
compiled with, he will register the company and issue a certificate called the
Certificate of Incorporation.
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
1.Name Clause: Akhtar Electronic co. Limited.
“The Authorized Share Capital of the company is Rs. 100,00,00,000 (Rupees One hundred
Crore only) divided into 10,00,00,000 (Ten Crore) Equity Shares of Rs. 10 each (Rupees ten
only) with powers to increase or reduce the same in accordance with the provisions of the
Companies Act, 1956”.
Reduction of capital
The Company may (subject to the provisions of Sections 78, 80, 100 to 105 inclusive, of the
Act) from time to time by Special Resolution, reduce its capital and any Capital Redemption
Reserve Account or Share Premium Account in any manner for the time being authorised by
law, and in particular, capital may be paid off on the footing that it may be called up again or
otherwise
The shares in the capital shall be numbered progressively according to their several
denominations and except in the manner hereinbefore mentioned no share shall be sub-
divided.
Shares at the disposal of the Directors:
Subject to the provisions of these Articles and the Act, the shares in the capital of the
Company for the time being (including any shares forming part of any increased capital of the
Company) shall be under the control of the Directors who may issue, allot or otherwise
dispose of the same or any one of them to such persons in such proportion and on such terms
and conditions. The shares can be issued at a discount and at such times as they may from
time to time think fit and proper and with the sanction of the Company in General Meeting to
give to any person the option to call for or allotted shares of any class of the Company either
at par or at premium or subject as aforesaid at a discount during such time and for such
consideration and such option being exercisable at such times as the Directors think fit; and
any shares which may be so allotted may be issued as fully paid-up shares and if so issued
shall be deemed to be fully paid-up shares. The Board shall cause to be filed the returns as to
allotment provided for in Section 75 of the Act. Provided that the option or right to call of
shares shall not be given to any person except with the sanction of the company in the General
Meeting.
Acceptance of shares
Any application signed by, or on behalf of, an applicant for shares in the Company followed
by an allotment of any shares therein, shall be an acceptance of shares within the meaning of
these Articles; and every person who thus or otherwise accepts any shares and whose name is
entered in its Register of Members shall, for the purpose of these Articles, be a member of the
Company.
Share Certificate
The share certificates shall be issued in market lots and where share certificates are issued in
either more or less than market lots, sub- division or consolidation of share certificates into
market lots shall be done free of charge.
Directors may sign a share certificate by affixing their signature thereon by means of any
machine, equipment or other mechanical means, such as engraving in metal or lithography,
but not by means of a rubber stamp, provided that the Director shall be responsible for the safe
custody of such machine, equipment or other material used for the purpose.
Renewal of share certificate
No fee shall be charged for issue of new share certificates in replacement of those which are
old, decrepit, worn out. If a share certificate is lost or destroyed, a new certificate in lieu
thereof shall be issued only with the prior consent of the Board and on payment of such fee,
not exceeding Rupees two as the Board may from time to time fix, and on such terms, if any,
as to evidence and indemnity as to payment of such out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the
Company in investigating evidence, as the Board thinks fit. When a new share certificate has
been issued in pursuance of Clause (c) of this Article, it shall state on the face of it and against
the stub or counterfoil to the effect that it is “a duplicate issued in lieu of share certificate
No_________.” The word “duplicate” shall be stamped or punched in bold letters across the
face of the share certificate.
CALLS
Directors may from time to time, subject to the terms on which any shares may have been
issued and subject to the conditions of allotment, by a resolution passed at a meeting of the
Board (and not by circular resolution) make such calls as it thinks fit upon the Members in
respect of all monies unpaid on the shares held by them respectively and each member shall
pay the amount of every call so made on him to the person or persons and at the time and
place appointed by the Board. A call may be made payable by installments.
Notice of calls
Thirty days notice in writing of any call shall be given by the Company specifying the time
and place of payment, and the person or persons to whom such calls shall be made.
Terms of notice
The notice shall name a day (not being earlier than the expiry of fourteen days from the date
of service of notice) and a place or places on and at which such call or installment and such
interest thereon at such rate as the Directors shall determine from the day on which such call
or installment ought to have been paid and expenses as aforesaid are to be paid. The notice
shall also state that, in the event of the non-payment at or before the time and the place
appointed, the share in respect of which the call was made or installment is payable will be
liable to be forfeited:
Notice of forfeiture
When any share shall have been so forfeited, notice of the forfeiture shall be given to the
Member in whose name it stood immediately prior to the forfeiture or to any of his legal
representatives, or to any of the persons entitled to the shares by transmission and an entry of
the forfeiture, with the date thereof, shall forthwith be made in the Register of Members but
no forfeiture, shall be in any manner invalidated by any omission or neglect to give such
notice or to make such entry as aforesaid. Forfeited shares to become property of the
Company and may be sold, etc. Any share so forfeited shall be deemed to be the property of
the Company and may be sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed of, either to the original
holder thereof or to any other person, upon such terms and in such manner as the Board shall
think fit.
Effect of forfeiture
The forfeiture of a share shall involve extinction, at the time of the forfeiture, of all interest in
and of all claims and demands against the Company, in respect of the share, and all other
rights incidental to the share, except only such of those rights as by these Articles are
expressly saved.
Surrender of shares
The Directors may subject to the provisions of the Act, accept a surrender of any shares from or by any
member
desirous of surrendering them on such terms as they think fit.
Register of Transfers
“The company shall keep a Register of Transfers and shall have recorded therein fairly and distinctly
particulars of every transfer or transmission of any share held in material form”.
Form of transfer
Shares in the Company shall be transferred by an instrument in writing in such form as prescribed
under Section 108 of the Companies Act, 1956, or under rules made there under from time to time.
Power to Borrow
Subject to the provisions of Sections 58A, 292 and 293 of the Act and of these Articles, the Board
may, from time to time at its discretion, by a resolution passed at a Meeting of the Board accept
deposits from Members, either in advance of call or otherwise, and generally raise or borrow or secure
the payment of any sum or sums of money for the purposes of the company provided however, where
the moneys to be borrowed together with the moneys already borrowed exceed the aggregate of the
paid up capital of the Company and its free reserves the Board shall not borrow such moneys without
the consent of the Company in General Meeting.
SHARE WARRANT
Power to issue share warrants
The Company may issue share warrants subject to, and in accordance with the provisions of sections
114 and 115, and accordingly the Board may in its discretion, with respect to any share which is fully
paid-up on application in writing signed by the persons registered as holder of the share, and
authenticated, by such evidence (if any) as the Board may, from time to time, require as to the identity
of the person signing the application, and on receiving the certificate (if any) of the share, and the
amount of the stamp duty on the warrant and such fee as the Board may from time to time require,
issue a share warrant.
Right of stockholders
The holders of stock shall, according to the amount of stock held by them, have the same rights,
privileges and advantages as regards dividends, voting at meetings of the Company, and other matters,
as if they held the shares from which the stock arose, but no such privilege advantage (except
participation in the dividends and profits of the Company and in the assets on winding-up) shall be
conferred by an amount of stock which would not, if existing in shares, have conferred that privilege or
advantage.
MEMBERS’ MEETINGS
DIRECTORS
Number of Directors
Until otherwise determined by the company in a General Meeting and subject to the provisions of
Section 252 of the Act, the number of directors (excluding Debenture Directors and Directors
appointed under Article 111 hereof and Alternate Directors) shall not be less than three nor more than
Eighteen.
The Board may appoint, from time to time, one or more of their members to be the Managing Director
or Joint
Managing Director or Whole time Director or Deputy Managing Director or Manager of the Company
on such terms and on such remuneration whether by way of salary or commission, or partly in one and
partly in another as they may think fit
Removal of Directors:
The Company may (subject to the provisions of Section 284 of the Act) remove any Director before
the expiration of his period of office and appoint another person in his stead.
Meeting of Directors
The Directors may meet together as a Board for the dispatch of business from time to time and shall so
meet at least once in every three calendar months and at least four such meetings shall be held in every
year. The Directors may adjourn and otherwise regulate their meetings as they may think fit.
Quorum
Subject to Section 287 of the Act, the quorum for a meeting of the Board shall be one-third of its total
strength
(excluding Directors, if any, whose places may be vacant at the time. and any fraction contained in that
one-third being rounded off as one), or two Directors whichever is higher. Provided that where at any
time the number of interested Directors exceeds or is equal to two- thirds of the total strength, the
number of the remaining Directors, that is to say, the number of the Directors who are not interested
present at the meeting being not less than two, shall be the quorum during such meeting.
Powers of Directors
The business of the Company shall be managed by the Board of Directors, who may exercise all such
powers of the Company and do all such acts and things as are not, by the Act, or any other Act or by
the Memorandum or by the Articles of the Company required to be exercised by the Company in
General Meeting, subject nevertheless to the Regulations of these Articles to the provisions of the Act,
or any other Act and to such Regulations being not inconsistent with the aforesaid Regulations or
provisions as may be prescribed by the Company in General Meeting but no Regulation made by the
Company in General Meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Board which would have been valid
if that Regulation had not been made.
Division of profits
The profits of the Company, subject to any special rights relating thereto created or authorised to be
created by these Articles, shall be divisible among the Members in proportion to the amount of capital
paid-up or credited as paid-up and to the period during the year for which the capital is paid-up on the
shares held by them respectively.
Interim Dividend
The Board may, from time to time, pay to the members such interim dividend as in their judgement the
position of the Company justifies.
Board Report
There shall be attached to every such balance sheet a report of the Board as to the state of the
Company’s affairs and as to the amounts, if any, which it proposes to carry to any reserves in such
balance sheet and the amount, if any, which it recommends should be paid by way of dividend; and
material changes and commitments, if any, affecting the financial position of the Company which have
occurred between the end of the financial year of the company to which the balance sheet relates and
the date of the report. The Board’s report shall so far as is material for the appreciation of the state of
the Company’s affairs by its members and will not in the Board’s opinion be harmful to the business of
the company or any of its subsidiaries, deal with any changes which have occurred during the financial
year in the nature of the Company’s business, in the Company’s subsidiaries or in the nature of the
business carried on by them and generally in the classes of business in which the company has an
interest and any other information as may be required by Section 217 of the Act. The Board shall also
give the fullest information and explanations in its report aforesaid or in an addendum to that report, on
every reservation, qualification or adverse remark contained in the auditor’s report. The Board’s report
and any addendum thereto shall be signed by its Chairman if he is authorized in that behalf by the
Board; and when he is not so authorized, shall be signed by not less than two Directors.
WINDING UP
Distribution of Assets
The Liquidator on any winding up (whether voluntary and supervision or compulsory) may with the
sanction of a Special Resolution, but subject to the rights attached to any preference share capital,
divide among the contributories in specie any part of the assets of the Company and may, with the like
sanction, vest any part of the assets of the Company in trustees upon such trusts for the benefit of the
contributors, as the liquidator, with the like sanction shall think fit.
1. SELECTION OF A NAME:
We have to ensure that the name does not resemble the name of any other already
registered electronic or company and also does not violate the provisions of emblems
and names (Prevention of Improper Use Act, 1950) by availing the services of
checking name availability on the portal.
The first name, i.e. Akhtar electronics co ltd.. is assumed to have been selected and
the letter of incorporation has been received.4
Along with the form we have to arrange for the drafting of the memorandum and
articles of association by the solicitors, vetting of the same by RoC and printing of the
same. The memorandum and article must be arranged for stamping of the
memorandum and articles with the appropriate stamp duty.
We have to get the Memorandum and the Articles signed by at least two subscribers in
own hand, father's name, occupation, address and the number of shares subscribed for
and witnessed by at least one person.
We have to ensure that the Memorandum and Article is dated on a date after the date
of stamping.
Login to the portal and fill the following forms and attach the mandatory documents
listed in the eForm
We have to submit the following eForms after attaching the digital signature, pay the
requisite filing and registration fees and send the physical copy of Memorandum and
Article of Association to the RoC
After processing of the Form is complete and Corporate Identity is generated obtain
Certificate of Incorporation from RoC.
LIMITED COMPANY :
To obtain Commencement of Business Certificate after incorporation of the company
the public company has to make following compliance
File a declaration in eForm 19 and attach the prospectus (Schedule II) to it.
RERGISTRAR OF COMPANIES
CERTIFICATE OF COMMENCEMENT
OF BUSINESS
This is to certify that The Akhtar electronics co ltd.. filed for incorporation was granted to it.
This certifies that the company has performed all the requirements and fulfilled the legal procedures of
the incorporation of the company and all the documents was found satisfactory. From this day forward
the company is capable of undertaking its normal business operation and to carry its
FORM NO 29
Registration No. of Company ........................ Nominal Capital
Rs. ...................................
Presented
by ..................................................................................................................
To the Registrar of
Companies .......................................................................
1 2 3 4 5 6
Signature ..............................
Designation ...........................
(2) If a director signs through his agent authorised in writing, the authority
must be produced
before the Registrar.
(3) In case of undertaking to take and pay for qualification shares, the
from should be
accompanied by the necessary stamp duty.
FORM NO. 18
Signature
Name
Designation
*State address of nearest police station with district and tehsil.
FORM NO. 1
Presented by ..
I, ., of do solemnly and
sincerely
Limited.
And that all the requirements of the Companies Act, 1956, and the rules thereunder in
respect of matters precedent to the registration of the said company and incidental
thereto have been complied with.
Date
Place Signature
Witness
Designation
1. An advocate of the Supreme Court of the ...................... High Court, an attorney
or a pleader entitled to appear before the ........................... High Court or a
chartered accountant practising in India.
FORM NO. 32
1 2 3 4 5 6
B. [***]
C. Appointment of and changes in managership and secretaryship.
1 2 3 4 5 6
Signature ............................................
Designation............................................
Notes: (1) For the purposes of this form, particulars of a person appointed as
manager within the
meaning of section 2(24) of the Companies Act, 1956 need be given.