Amendment - Companies Act - Extention of 300 Days for registeration of Creation / Statisfaction of Charge U/s 125/138

Dear All,

The final position is http://yehseeyes.blogspot.com/2008/07/companies-acte-form-8-within-30-days-of.html

As we all know that in the case of creation of charge as per Section 125 of the Companies Act, 1956 we need to register a charge within 30 days next immediately following the expiry of the initial period of 30 days on payment of additional fee in terms of Section 611(2). The same provisions are applicable to the modification of charges under Section 135. However, in the case of satisfaction the facility of extension of period of 30 days is not available to the Registrar for the registration of satisfaction of charges under Section 138 of the Act.

The powers to condone the delay and grant extension for filing these documents beyond a period of 60 days or 30 days, as the case may be, vest in the Company Law Board (CLB) in terms of provisions contained in Section 141 of the Act.

It was observed with the implementation of e filing under MCA-21 e-governance programme that a large number of applications are required to be filed with the CLB for condonation of delay beyond the period of 60 days.

In consideration of the time and costs involved in pursuing these applications with the CLB, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs filed a petition before the CLB seeking appropriate directions to allow the Central Government to extend the time, in cases where filing of the particulars or the registration/ modification of the charge or the intimation of payment or satisfaction thereof does not take place within a period of 60 days and 30 days respectively, up to a period not exceeding 300 days from the date of event, on levy of additional fee prescribed under section 611(2).

The Hon'ble Company Law Board has allowed the petition and passed an order dated 1.8.2007.

Also find attached relevant circular issued by Ministry of Corporate Affairs for your perusal.

Thanks & Regards

Alagar

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