Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934
45-IC. Reserve
fund
(1) Every
non-banking financial company shall create a reserve fund and transfer therein a
sum not less than twenty per cent of its net profit every year as disclosed in
the profit and loss account and before any dividend is declared.
(2) No
appropriation of any sum from the reserve fund shall be made by the non-banking
financial company except for the purpose as may be specified by the bank from
time to time and every such appropriation shall be reported to the bank within
twenty-one days from the date of such withdrawal:
PROVIDED
that the bank may, in any particular case and for sufficient cause being shown,
extend the period of twenty-one days by such further period as it thinks fit or
condone any delay in making such report.
(3)
Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the Central Government
may, on the recommendation of the bank and having regard to the adequacy of the
paid-up capital and reserves of a non-banking financial company in relation to
its deposit liabilities, declare by order in writing that the provisions of
sub-section (1) shall not be applicable to the non-banking financial company for
such period as may be specified in the order:
PROVIDED
that no such order shall be made unless the amount in the reserve fund under
sub-section (1) together with the amount in the share premium account is not
less than the paid-up capital of the non-banking financial company.]