Companies Act, 1956
Sec 213 -
Financial year of holding company and subsidiary.
(1) Where it appears to the Central Government
desirable for a holding company or a holding company's subsidiary, to extend
its financial year so that the subsidiary's financial year may end with that of
the holding company, and for that purpose to postpone the submission of the
relevant accounts to a general meeting, the Central Government may, on the
application or with the consent of the Board of directors of the company whose
financial year is to be extended, direct that in the case of that company, the
submission of accounts to a general meeting, the holding of an annual general
meeting or the making of an annual return, shall not be required to be
submitted, held or made, earlier than the dates specified in the direction,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act or in any other Act for
the time being in force.
(2) The Central Government shall, on the
application of the Board of directors of a holding company or a holding
company's subsidiary, exercise the powers conferred on that Government by
sub-section (1) if it is necessary so to do, in order to secure that the end of
the financial year of the subsidiary does not precede the end of the holding
company's financial year by more than six months, where that is not the case at
the commencement of this Act, or at the date on which the relationship of
holding company and subsidiary comes into existence where that date is later
than the commencement of this Act.