TMI BlogLoan and investment by companyX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... regulation framed under any law for the time being in force. (2) No company shall directly or indirectly - (a) give any loan to any person or other body corporate; (b) give any guarantee or provide security in connection with a loan to any other body corporate or person; and (c) acquire by way of subscription, purchase or otherwise, the securities of any other body corporate, exceeding sixty per cent of its paid-up share capital, free reserves and securities premium account or one hundred per cent of its free reserves and securities premium account, whichever is more. 2 [Explanation .-For the purposes of this sub-section, the word person does not include any individual who is in the employment of the company.] 3 [(3) Where the aggregate of ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... l the directors present at the meeting and the prior approval of the public financial institution concerned where any term loan is subsisting, is obtained: Provided that prior approval of a public financial institution shall not be required where the aggregate of the loans and investments so far made, the amount for which guarantee or security so far provided to or in all other bodies corporate, along with the investments, loans, guarantee or security proposed to be made or given does not exceed the limit as specified in sub-section (2), and there is no default in repayment of loan instalments or payment of interest thereon as per the terms and conditions of such loan to the public financial institution. (6) No company, which is registered ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... security provided or any investment made by a banking company, or an insurance company, or a housing finance company in the ordinary course of its business, or a company established with the object of and engaged in the business of financing industrial enterprises, or of providing infrastructural facilities; (b) to any investment- (i) made by an investment company; (ii) made in shares allotted in pursuance of clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 62 or in shares allotted in pursuance of rights issues made by a body corporate; (iii) made, in respect of investment or lending activities, by a non-banking financial company registered under Chapter III-B of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934) and whose principal business is acqui ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... t was read as, (3) Where the giving of any loan or guarantee or providing any security or the acquisition under sub-section (2) exceeds the limits specified in that sub-section, prior approval by means of a special resolution passed at a general meeting shall be necessary. 4. Substituted vide The Companies (Amendment) Act, 2017 Dated 03-01-2018 w.e.f. 07 th May, 2018, before it was read as, (11) Nothing contained in this section, except sub-section (1), shall apply- (a) to a loan made, guarantee given or security provided by a banking company or an insurance company or a housing finance company in the ordinary course of its business or a company engaged in the business of financing of companies or of providing infrastructural facilities; (b ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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