Companies Act, 2013
380.
Documents,
etc., to be delivered to Registrar by foreign companies.
1. Every foreign company
shall, within thirty days of the establishment of its place of business in
India, deliver to the Registrar for registration—
a.
a
certified copy of the charter, statutes or memorandum and articles, of the
company or other instrument constituting or defining the constitution of the
company and, if the instrument is not in the English language, a certified
translation thereof in the English language;
b.
the
full address of the registered or principal office of the company;
c.
a
list of the directors and secretary of the company containing such particulars
as may be prescribed;
d.
the
name and address or the names and addresses of one or more persons resident in
India authorised to accept on behalf of the company service of process and any
notices or other documents required to be served on the company;
e.
the
full address of the office of the company in India which is deemed to be its
principal place of business in India;
f.
particulars
of opening and closing of a place of business in India on earlier occasion or
occasions;
g.
declaration
that none of the directors of the company or the authorized representative in
India has ever been convicted or debarred from formation of companies and
management in India or abroad; and
h.
any
other information as may be prescribed.
1.
2. Every foreign company
existing at the commencement of this Act shall, if it has not delivered to the
Registrar before such commencement, the documents and particulars specified in
sub-section (1 ) of section 592 of the Companies Act, 1956, continue to
be subject to the obligation to deliver those documents and particulars in
accordance with that Act.
3. Where any alteration
is made or occurs in the documents delivered to the Registrar under this
section, the foreign company shall, within thirty days of such alteration,
deliver to the Registrar for registration, a return containing the particulars
of the alteration in the prescribed form.