Companies Act, 1956
Sec 640B - Forms of, and procedure in relation to, certain
applications.
(1) Every application made to the Central
Government under sections 259, 268, 269, 310 or 311 shall be in such form as
may be prescribed.
(2)
(a) Before any application is made by a
company to the Central Government under any of the sections aforesaid, there
shall be issued by or on behalf of the company a general notice to the members
thereof, indicating the nature of the application proposed to be made.
(b) Such notice shall be published at least
once in a newspaper in the principal language of the district in which the
registered office of the company is situate and circulating in that district,
and at least once in English in an English newspaper circulating in that
district.
(c) Copies of the notices, together with a
certificate by the Company as to the due publication thereof, shall be attached
to the application.