Companies Act, 1956
Sec 127 -
Registration of charges on properties acquired subject to charge.
(1) Where a company acquires any property
which is subject to a charge of any such kind as would, if it had been created
by the company after the acquisition of the property, have been required to be
registered under this Part, the company shall cause the prescribed particulars
of the charge, together with a copy (certified in the prescribed manner to be a
correct copy) of the instrument, if any, by which the charge was created or is
evidenced, to be delivered to the Registrar for registration in the manner
required by this Act within thirty days after the date on which the acquisition
is completed :
Provided that, if the property is situate, and
the charge was created, outside India, thirty days after the date on which a
copy of the instrument could, in due course of post and if dispatched with due
diligence, have been received in India shall be substituted for thirty days
after the completion of the acquisition as the time within which the
particulars and the copy of the instrument are to be delivered to the
Registrar.
(2) If default is made in complying with
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 thousand
rupees.