Companies Act, 2013
137.
Copy
of financial statement to be filed with Registrar.
1. A copy of the
financial statements, including consolidated financial statement, if
any, along with all the documents which are required to be or attached to such
financial statements under this Act, duly adopted at the annual general meeting
of the company, shall be filed with the Registrar within thirty days of the
date of annual general meeting in such manner, with such fees or additional
fees as may be prescribed within the time specified under section 403:
Provided
that where the financial statements under sub-section (1 ) are not
adopted at annual general meeting or adjourned annual general meeting, such
unadopted financial statements along with the required documents under
sub-section (1 ) shall be filed with the Registrar within thirty days of
the date of annual general meeting and the Registrar shall take them in his
records as provisional till the financial statements are filed with him after
their adoption in the adjourned annual general meeting for that purpose:
Provided
further that financial statements adopted in the adjourned annual general
meeting shall be filed with the Registrar within thirty days of the date of
such adjourned annual general meeting with such fees or such additional fees as
may be prescribed within the time specified under section 403:
Provided
also that a One Person Company shall file a copy of the financial statements
duly adopted by its member, along with all the documents which are required to
be attached to such financial statements, within one hundred eighty days from
the closure of the financial year:
Provided
also that a company shall, along with its financial statements to be filed with
the Registrar, attach the accounts of its subsidiary or subsidiaries which have
been incorporated outside India and which have not established their place of
business in India.
1.
2. Where the annual
general meeting of a company for any year has not been held, the financial
statements along with the documents required to be attached under sub-section (1 ),
duly signed along with the statement of facts and reasons for not holding the
annual general meeting shall be filed with the Registrar within thirty days of
the last date before which the annual general meeting should have been held and
in such manner, with such fees or additional fees as may be prescribed within
the time specified, under section 403.
3. If a company fails to
file the copy of the financial statements under sub-section (1 ) or
sub-section (2 ), as the case may be, before the expiry of the period
specified in section 403, the company shall be punishable with fine of one
thousand rupees for every day during which the failure continues but which
shall not be more than ten lakh rupees, and the managing director and the Chief
Financial Officer of the company, if any, and, in the absence of the managing
director and the Chief Financial Officer, any other director who is charged by
the Board with the responsibility of complying with the provisions of this
section, and, in the absence of any such director, all the directors of the
company, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
six months or with fine which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which
may extend to five lakh rupees, or with both.