Companies Act, 2013
469.
Power
of Central Government to make rules.
1. The Central
Government may, by notification, make rules for carrying out the provisions of
this Act.
2. Without prejudice to
the generality of the provisions of sub-section (1 ), the Central
Government may make rules for all or any of the matters which by this Act are
required to be, or may be, prescribed or in respect of which provision is to be
or may be made by rules.
3. Any rule made under
sub-section (1 ) may provide that a contravention thereof shall be
punishable with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees and where the
contravention is a continuing one, with a further fine which may extend to five
hundred rupees for every day after the first during which such contravention
continues.
4. Every rule made under
this section and every regulation made by Securities and Exchange Board under
this Act, shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House
of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which
may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if,
before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the
successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in
the rule or regulation or both Houses agree that the rule or regulation should
not be made, the rule or regulation shall thereafter have effect only in such
modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any
such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of
anything previously done under that rule or regulation.