(1) A company shall, as from the day on which it begins to carry on business, or as from the thirtieth day after the date of its incorporation, whichever is earlier, have a registered office to which all communications and notices may be addressed.

(2) Notice of the situation of the registered office, and of every change therein, shall be given within thirty days after the date of the incorporation of the company or after the date of the change, as the case may be, to the Registrar, who shall record the same:

Provided that except on the authority of a special resolution passed by the company, the registered office of the company shall not be removed outside the limits of any city, town or any village where such office is situated.

(3) The inclusion in the annual return of a company of a statement as to the address of its registered office shall not be taken to satisfy the obligation imposed by sub-section (2).

(4) If default is made in complying with the requirements of this section, the company, and every officer of the company who is in default, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees for every day during which the default continues.

(1) Every company -

(2) If a company does not paint or affix its name and the address of its registered office or keep the same painted or affixed in the manner directed by clause (a) of sub-section (1), the company, and every officer of the company who is in default, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees for not so painting or affixing its name and the address of its registered office, and for every day during which its name and the address of the registered office, is not so kept painted or affixed.

(3) If a company fails to comply with clause (b) or clause (c) of sub-section (1), the company shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees.

(4) If an officer of a company or any person on its behalf -

such officer or person shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, and shall further be personally liable to the holder of the bill of exchange, hundi, promissory note, cheque or order for money or goods, for the amount thereof, unless it is duly paid by the company.

(1)Where any notice, advertisement or other official publications, or any business letter, bill head or letter paper, of a company contains a statement of the amount of the authorised capital of the company, such notice, advertisement or other official publication, or such letter, bill head or letter paper, shall also contain a statement, in an equally prominent position and in equally conspicuous characters, of the amount of the capital which has been subscribed and the amount paid up.

(2) If default is made in complying with the requirements of sub-section (1), the company, and every officer of the company who is in default, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees.

(1) Every company shall keep in one or more books a register of its members and a register of holders of its debentures and, enter therein the following particulars, namely :

(2) Every company having more than fifty members or fifty debenture holders shall, unless the register of members or of the debenture holders, as the case may be, is in such a form as in itself to constitute an index, keep an index ( which may be in the form of card index) of the names of members or debenture holders of the company and shall, within fourteen days after the date on which any alteration is made in the register of members or, as the case may be, register of debenture holders, make the necessary alterations in the index.

(3) The index shall, in respect of each member or debenture holder, contain a sufficient indication to enable the entries relating to that member or debenture holder in the register to be readily found.

(4) The index shall, at all times, be kept at the same place as the register of members.

(5) If default is made in complying with sub-sections (2) , (3) or (4), the company and every officer of the company who is in default, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees.

(6) Sub-sections (1) to (3) shall not apply with respect to debentures which, ex-facie are payable to the bearer thereof.

(7) A company may, after giving not less than seven days previous notice by advertisement in some newspapers circulating in the district in which the registered office of the company is situate, close the register of members or the register of debenture holders for any period or periods not exceeding in the aggregate forty-five days in each year, but not exceeding thirty days at any one time.

Provided that, except the manner of keeping particulars of members and holders of debentures of the company, the other provisions of this Part shall apply to record kept on computer floppies or diskettes in the same manner as they are applicable to register and index of members and holders of debentures of the company.

The Register and index of beneficial owners maintained by a Depository under section 11 of the Depositories Act, 1996 (22 of 1996), shall be deemed to be a register and index of members or debenture holders, as the case may be, for the purposes of this Act.

No notice of any trust, express, implied or constructive, other than mutual trusts and such other trusts, as may be notified, shall be entered on the register of members or of debenture holders.