The Companies Amendment Act, 2017 read with Notification S.O. 1833(E) dated 7th May 2018 amended law related to the audit committee. Certain transactions related to related parties shall be voidable unless ratified by the audit committee. In this post, we will discuss updated law related to approval of related parties in the audit committee.
Posted in Chapter XII - CA2013, Companies Act 2013
Tagged Audit Committee, Related Party Transactions, RPT
Presently, a private agreement between Stock Exchange and listed company govern all listing obligation and disclosure requirement. This listing agreement like any other agreement among parties creates civil obligation in case of any violation of the agreement.
The Companies Amendment Bill 2014 has been introduced and passed in Lok Sabha recently. This blog post has intention to analyse proposed changes in the Companies Act 2013.
Most important massage, this amendment prepares a best case for drafting skill development programmes in India. I am reading here this Bill clause by clause. This will be a three part series and part 2 of 3 is present here.
To amend sub-section (1) of section 123 of the said Act to include provisions for writing off past losses/depreciation before declaring dividend for the year [Clause 10 of the Amendment Bill]
A forth proviso is being added to the effect that no company shall declare dividend unless carried over previous losses and depreciation not provided in previous year or years are set off against profit of the company for the current year.
Posted in Chapter I - CA2013, Chapter IX - CA2013, Chapter VIII - CA2013, Chapter XII - CA2013, Companies Act 2013, CorpGov, Governance and Responsibility
Tagged Companies Act 2013, Corporate Law, Depreciation, Dividend, Fraud, India, Investor Education and Protection Fund, Loan, Ministry of corporate affairs, Related Party Transactions, Resolution, The Companies Amendment Bill 2014, unclaimed dividend
On 14th August 2014, Ministry of Corporate Affairs came out with its second amendment to the Companies (Meeting of Board and its Powers) Rules 2014. These Rules come into effect from the date of publication of these amendment Rules in official Gazette which is 14th August 2014.
Section 188 of the Companies Act 2013 lay down provisions regarding related party transactions. This Section discusses type of related party contracts and arrangements, disclosure in board report, rendered related party contract voidable for non – ratification, recovery of any loss and provision for fines. We have discussed these provisions earlier here.
Rule 15 of the Companies (Meeting of Boards and its powers) Rules 2014 add conditions on which a company may enter into a contract with related party:
Writer of this blog, Aishwarya Mohan Gahrana is Practicing Company Secretary and Insolvency Professional working with M/s Aishwarya M Gahrana & Associates, a New Delhi based peer reviewed firm of company secretaries having pan India presence through friends and associates. This blog is a knowledge sharing initiative. Views expressed here is of writer; not of the organization(s) he is working with.
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