Companies Act, 2013
59.
Rectification
of register of members.
1. If the name of any
person is, without sufficient cause, entered in the register of members of a
company, or after having been entered in the register, is, without sufficient
cause, omitted there from, or if a default is made, or unnecessary delay takes
place in entering in the register, the fact of any person having become or
ceased to be a member, the person aggrieved, or any member of the company, or
the company may appeal in such form as may be prescribed, to the Tribunal, or
to a competent court outside India, specified by the Central Government by
notification, in respect of foreign members or debenture holders residing
outside India, for rectification of the register.
2. The Tribunal may,
after hearing the parties to the appeal under sub-section (1 ) by order,
either dismiss the appeal or direct that the transfer or transmission shall be
registered by the company within a period of ten days of the receipt of the
order or direct rectification of the records of the depository or the register
and in the latter case, direct the company to pay damages, if any, sustained by
the party aggrieved.
3. The provisions of
this section shall not restrict the right of a holder of securities, to
transfer such securities and any person acquiring such securities shall be
entitled to voting rights unless the voting rights have been suspended by an
order of the Tribunal.
4. Where the transfer of
securities is in contravention of any of the provisions of the Securities
Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956, the Securities and Exchange Board of India
Act, 1992 or this Act or any other law for the time being in force, the
Tribunal may, on an application made by the depository, company, depository
participant, the holder of the securities or the Securities and Exchange Board,
direct any company or a depository to set right the contravention and rectify
its register or records concerned.
5. If any default is
made in complying with the order of the Tribunal under this section, the
company shall be punishable with fine which shall not be less than one lakh
rupees but which may extend to five lakh rupees and every officer of the
company who is in default shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term
which may extend to one year or with fine which shall not be less than one lakh
rupees but which may extend to three lakh rupees, or with both.