Companies Act, 2013
371.
Effect
of registration under this Part.
1. When a company is
registered in pursuance of this Part, sub-sections (2 ) to (7 )
shall apply.
2. All provisions
contained in any Act of Parliament or any other law for the time being in
force, or other instrument constituting or regulating the company, including,
in the case of a company registered as a company limited by guarantee, the
resolution declaring the amount of the guarantee, shall be deemed to be
conditions and regulations of the company, in the same manner and with the same
incidents as if so much thereof as would, if the company had been formed under
this Act, have been required to be inserted in the memorandum, were contained
in a registered memorandum, and the residue thereof were contained in registered
articles.
3. All the provisions of
this Act shall apply to the company and the members, contributories and
creditors thereof, in the same manner in all respects as if it had been formed
under this Act, subject as follows:—
a.
Table
F in Schedule I shall not apply unless and except in so far as it is adopted by
special resolution;
b.
the
provisions of this Act relating to the numbering of shares shall not apply to
any company whose shares are not numbered;
c.
in
the event of the company being wound up, every person shall be a contributory,
in respect of the debts and liabilities of the company contracted before
registration, who is liable to pay or contribute to the payment of any debt or
liability of the company contracted before registration, or to pay or contribute
to the payment of any sum for the adjustment of the rights of the members among
themselves in respect of any such debt or liability, or to pay or contribute to
the payment of the costs, charges and expenses of winding up the company, so
far as relates to such debts or liabilities as aforesaid;
d.
in
the event of the company being wound up, every contributory shall be liable to
contribute to the assets of the company, in the course of the winding up, all
sums due from him in respect of any such liability as aforesaid; and in the
event of the death or insolvency of any contributory, the provisions of this
Act with respect to the legal representatives of deceased contributories, or
with respect to the assignees of insolvent contributories, as the case may be, shall
apply.
1.
2.
3.
4. The provisions of
this Act with respect to—
a.
the
registration of an unlimited company as a limited company;
b.
the
powers of an unlimited company on registration as a limited company, to
increase the nominal amount of its share capital and to provide that a portion
of its share capital shall not be capable of being called-up except in the
event of winding up;
c.
the
power of a limited company to determine that a portion of its share capital
shall not be capable of being called-up except in the event of winding up,
shall apply, notwithstanding anything in any Act of Parliament or any other law
for the time being in force, or other instrument constituting or regulating the
company.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Nothing in this
section shall authorise the company to alter any such provisions contained in
any instrument constituting or regulating the company as would, if the company
had originally been formed under this Act, have been required to be contained
in the memorandum and are not authorised to be altered by this Act.
6. None of the
provisions of this Act (apart from those of section 242) shall derogate from
any power of altering its constitution or regulations which may be vested in
the company, by virtue of any Act of Parliament or any other law for the time
being in force, or other instrument constituting or regulating the company.
7. In this section, the
expression “instrument” includes deed of settlement, deed of partnership, or
limited liability partnership.