Section 613 - Power of Central Government to reduce fees, charges, etc. - Companies Act, 1956

Power of Central Government to reduce fees, charges, etc. 613. (1) The Central Government may, by order notified in the Official Gazette, reduce the amount of any fee, charge, or other sum specified in any provision contained in this Act, as payable in respect of any matter, either to the Central Government or to any Registrar, any Additional, Joint, Deputy, or Assistant Registrar or any other officer of the Central Government; and thereupon such provision shall, during the period for which the order is in force, have effect as if the reduced fee had been substituted for the fee specified in such provision. (2) Any order notified under sub-section (1) may, by a like order, be cancelled or varied at any time by the Central Government. (3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the power of the Central Government under section 641 to alter any of the fees specified in Schedule X.