Tag Archives: The Companies Amendment Act 2015

Ministry of corporate Affairs issued a notification dated 14^th December 2015 and published here in the Gazette of India dated 15^th December 2015 regarding amendment in the Companies (Meetings of Board and its Power) Rules 2014.

The Companies (Meetings of Board and its Power) Second Amendment Rules, 2015 (i) inserts a new Rule 6A, (ii) omit present Rule 10 and (iii) amend present Rule 15(3).

We will discuss newly inserted Rule 6A in a future post. In this post we bill discuss other two amendments in very brief way.

Loan to Directors

We have discussed now omitted Rule 10 earlier here. These rules became redundant after the Company (Amendment) Act, 2015 as discussed earlier here. Hence, it is deleted.

Amendment in Rule 15

We have discussed Rule 15 earlier here. There is a minor but very important amendment in Rule 15(3). In rule 15, in sub-rule (3), for the words “special resolution”, wherever they occur, the word “resolution” shall be substituted.

This amendment is in line with the amendment in Section 188 by the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2015 discussed earlier here.

This has a very significant effect and dilutes corporate governance to certain level. This cut power of non – promoter investors whether they are indigenous investors or foreign investors.

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