Companies Act, 1956
Sec 13 -
Requirements with respect to memorandum.
(1) The memorandum of every company shall
state :
(a) the name of the company with
"Limited" as the last word of the name in the case of a public
limited company, and with "Private Limited" as the last words of the
name in the case of a private limited company;
(b) the State in which the registered office
of the company is to be situate;
(c) in the case of a company in existence
immediately before the commencement of the Companies (Amendment) Act, 1965, (31
of 1965) the objects of the company;
(d) in the case of a company formed after such
commencement,
(i) the main objects of the company to be
pursued by the company on its incorporation and objects incidental or ancillary
to the attainment of the main objects;
(ii) other objects of the company not included
in sub-clause (i); and
(e) in the case of companies (other than
trading corporations), with objects not confined to one State, the States to
whose territories the objects extend.
(2) The memorandum of a company limited by
shares or by guarantee shall also state that the liability of its members is
limited.
(3) The memorandum of a company limited by
guarantee shall also state that each member undertakes to contribute to the
assets of the company in the event of its being wound up while he is a member
or within one year after he ceases to be a member, for payment of the debts and
liabilities of the company, or of such debts and liabilities of the company as
may have been contracted before he ceases to be a member, as the case may be,
and of the costs, charges and expenses of winding up, and for adjustment of the
rights of the contributories among themselves, such amount as may be required,
not exceeding a specified amount.
(4) In the case of a company having a share
capital :
(a) unless the company is an unlimited
company, the memorandum shall also state the amount of share capital with which
the company is to be registered and the division thereof into shares of a fixed
amount;
(b) no subscriber of the memorandum shall take
less than one share; and
(c) each subscriber of the memorandum shall
write opposite to his name the number of shares he takes.