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Description
This manual is a unique treatise, comprising 56 chapters, which contain topic-wise concise commentary on those sections of the Companies Act 1956 which are of practical importance to ail those who deal with the Act. It sets out detailed procedures and advice for compliance on various requirements under the Companies Act, with numerous precedents and forms. It deals with law and procedures, and, therefore, stands out from other books on the subject. Apart from procedures for compliance, numerous specimens and precedents have been incorporated at relevant places, including resolutions which are frequently passed at board, committee and general meetings. This Manual will be useful not only to company secretaries and chartered accountants but all those corporate executives who have the responsibility of compliance with the Companies Act. It will also prove to be of immense value to the judiciary, law practitioners and officers working in regulatory authorities like Ministry of Company Affairs. Regional Directors, Registrars of Companies, Company Law Board, Stock Exchanges. Securities and Exchange Board of India, etc, and students of professional examinations of law courses and in particular, the Institutes of Company Secretaries, Chartered Accountants and Cost & Works Accountants.
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Contents
Chapter 1. Company: Meaning and Effect of Incorporation
Chapter 2. The Private Company
Chapter 3. The Holding and Subsidiary Company
Chapter 4. Company Name: Selection, Change and Publication
Chapter 5. The Memorandum of Association
Chapter 6. The Articles of Association
Chapter 7. The Incorporation of a Company
Chapter 8. Conversion of a Company form One Form to Another
Chapter 9. The Company Membership and the Register of Members
Chapter 10. Class Rights and their Variation
Chapter 11. Share, Share Capital and Share Certificate
Chapter 12. The Depository and the Company Membership
Chapter 13. Debenture
Chapter 14. Reduction of Share Capital
Chapter 15. Buying and Providing Financial Assistance for buying Company’s
Own Shares
Chapter 16. Transfer and Transmission of Shares and Debentures
Chapter 17. Debentures: The Issue and Creation of Security and the Register
of Debenture Holders
Chapter 18. Invitation or Acceptance of Deposits by Non-banking Non-financial
Companies
Chapter 19. Inter-corporate Investments, Loans, Guarantees and Securities
Chapter 20. The Concepts of Issue of Shares and Debentures by Private Placement
and Public Offer
Chapter 21. Methods of Issue of Shares and Debentures
Chapter 22. Allotment of Shares and Debentures
Chapter 23. Issue of Redeemable Preference Shares, Shares with Differential
Rights, Sweat Equity Shares and Bonus Shares
Chapter 24. Listing and Delisting of Securities and Corporate Governance Code
Under Listing Agreement
Chapter 25. Registration of Charges at the Registrar’s Office
Chapter 26. Registered Office, Commencement of Business, Common Seal,
Company Contracts
Chapter 27. Annual Returns
Chapter 28. The Company Directors-Qualification and Disqualification
Chapter 29. The Appointment of Directors
Chapter 30. The Termination of Directorship
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Author Details
Dr. K.R. Chandratre is a practising company secretary with over 25 years' experience. He has an impressive academic background, and holds a Master's degree in commerce, an LL B and LL D from the University of Pune. He was the President of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India during 1996 and the Vice-President for two years. He was a member of the Working Group on Redrafting of the Companies Act, 1956 constituted by the Government of India in August 1996, to draft a new Companies Act to be substituted for the Companies Act 1956, which resulted in the Companies Bill, 1997. He also served as the Chairman of the Committee on 'Delisting of Securities' constituted by SEBI in March 1997. He was the President of the Pune Stock Exchange, Pune, India, during April 2004 to April 2005. Dr. Chandratre has so far authored over 1000 articles and 24 books on various subjects in the areas of Corporate Laws and Corporate Secretarial Practice. He has also addressed more than 300 seminars, workshops, conferences and conventions besides contributing papers at national and international levels.
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