Companies Act, 1956
Sec 220 - Three copies
of Balance Sheet, etc., to be filed with Registrar.
(1) After the balance sheet and the profit and
loss account have been laid before a company at an annual general meeting as
aforesaid, there shall be filed with the Registrar within thirty days from the
date on which the balance sheet and the profit and loss account were so laid,
or where the annual general meeting of a company for any year has not been
held, there shall be filed with the Registrar within thirty days from the
latest day on or before which that meeting should have been held in accordance
with the provisions of this Act,
(a) three copies of the balance sheet and the
profit and loss account, signed by the managing director, manager, or secretary
of the company, or if there be none of these, by a director of the company,
together with three copies of all documents which are required by this Act to
be annexed or attached to such balance sheet or profit and loss account:
Provided that in the case of a private company,
copies of the balance sheet and copies of the profit and loss account shall be
filed with the Registrar separately :
Provided further that,
(i) in the case of a private company which is
not a subsidiary of a public company, or
(ii) in the case of a private company of which
the entire paid-up share capital is held by one or more bodies corporate
incorporated outside India, or
(iii) in the case of a company which becomes a
public company by virtue of section 43A, if the Central Government directs that
it is not in the public interest that any person other than a member of the
company shall be entitled to inspect, or obtain copies of, the Profit and Loss
Account of the company, no person other than a member of the company concerned
shall be entitled to inspect, or obtain copies of, the profit and loss account
of that company under section 610.
(2) If the annual general meeting of a company
before which a balance sheet is laid as aforesaid does not adopt the balance
sheet, or is adjourned without adopting the balance sheet, or, if the annual
general meeting of a company for any year has not been held, a statement of
that fact and of the reasons therefore shall be annexed to the balance sheet
and to the copies thereof required to be filed with the Registrar.
(3) If default is made in complying with the
requirements of sub-sections (1) and (2), the company, and every officer of the
company who is in default, shall be liable to the like punishment as is
provided by section 162 for a default in complying with the provisions of
sections 159, 160 or 161.