Companies Act, 1956
Sec 594 - Accounts of foreign company.
(1) Every foreign company shall, in every
calendar year,-
(a) make out a balance sheet and profit and
loss account in such form, containing such particulars and including or having
annexed or attached thereto such documents (including, in particular documents
relating to every subsidiary of the foreign company) as under the provisions of
this Act it would, if it had been a company within the meaning of this Act,
have been required to make out and lay before the company in general meeting;
and
(b) deliver three copies of those documents to
the Registrar:
Provided that the Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, direct that, in the case of any foreign
company or class of foreign company the requirements of clause (a) shall not
apply, or shall apply subject to such exceptions and modifications as may be
specified in the notification.
(2) If any such document as is mentioned in
sub-section (1) is not in the English language, there shall be annexed to it a
certified translation thereof.
(3) Every foreign company shall send to the
Registrar with the documents required to be delivered to him under sub-section
(1), three copies of a list in the prescribed form of all places of business
established by the company in India as at the date with reference to which the
balance sheet referred to in sub-section (1) is made out.