Annual return

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..... holding, subsidiary and associate companies; (b) its shares, debentures and other securities and shareholding pattern; 1[***] (d) its members and debenture-holders along with changes therein since the close of the previous financial year; (e) its promoters, directors, key managerial personnel along with changes therein since the close of the previous financial year; (f) meetings of membe .....

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..... shall be signed by the company secretary, or where there is no company secretary, by the director of the company. 3[Provided further that the Central Government may prescribe abridged form of annual return for "One Person Company, small company and such other class or classes of companies as may be prescribed".] (2) The annual return, filed by a listed company or, by a company having .....

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..... ying the reasons for not holding the annual general meeting, with such fees or additional fees as may be prescribed, 5[***]. 7[(5) If any company fails to file its annual return under sub-section (4), before the expiry of the period specified therein, such company and its every officer who is in default shall be liable to a penalty of 8[ten thousand rupees] and in case of continuing failure, with .....

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..... f incorporation, registration and percentage of shareholding held by them " 3. Inserted vide The Companies (Amendment) Act, 2017 Dated 03-01-2018 w.e.f. 05-03-2021 4. Substituted vide The Companies (Amendment) Act, 2017 Dated 03-01-2018 w.e.f. 28-08-2020 before it was read as, "(3) An extract of the annual return in such form as may be prescribed shall form part of the Board's rep .....

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..... mprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which shall not be less than fifty thousand rupees but which may extend to five lakh rupees, or with both." 8. Substituted vide THE COMPANIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2020 dated 28-09-2020 before it was read as "fifty thousand rupees" 9. Substituted vide THE COMPANIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2020 dated 28-09-2020 before it was re .....

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