Companies Act, 2013
252.
Appeal
to Tribunal.
1. Any person aggrieved
by an order of the Registrar, notifying a company as dissolved under section
248, may file an appeal to the Tribunal within a period of three years from the
date of the order of the Registrar and if the Tribunal is of the opinion that
the removal of the name of the company from the register of companies is not
justified in view of the absence of any of the grounds on which the order was
passed by the Registrar, it may order restoration of the name of the company in
the register of companies:
Provided
that before passing any order under this section, the Tribunal shall give a
reasonable opportunity of making representations and of being heard to the
Registrar, the company and all the persons concerned :
Provided
further that if the Registrar is satisfied, that the name of the company has
been struck off from the register of companies either inadvertently or on the
basis of incorrect information furnished by the company or its directors, which
requires restoration in the register of companies, he may within a period of
three years from the date of passing of the order dissolving the company under
section 248, file an application before the Tribunal seeking restoration of
name of such company.
1.
2. A copy of the order
passed by the Tribunal shall be filed by the company with the Registrar within
thirty days from the date of the order and on receipt of the order, the
Registrar shall cause the name of the company to be restored in the register of
companies and shall issue a fresh certificate of incorporation.
3. If a company, or any
member or creditor or workman thereof feels aggrieved by the company having its
name struck off from the register of companies, the Tribunal on an application
made by the company, member, creditor or workman before the expiry of twenty
years from the publication in the Official Gazette of the notice under
sub-section (5 ) of section 248 may, if satisfied that the company was,
at the time of its name being struck off, carrying on business or in operation
or otherwise it is just that the name of the company be restored to the
register of companies, order the name of the company to be restored to the
register of companies, and the Tribunal may, by the order, give such other
directions and make such provisions as deemed just for placing the company and
all other persons in the same position as nearly as may be as if the name of
the company had not been struck off from the register of companies.