“Strike Off” in MCA Compliance
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Introduction to Companies Act 2013 -- Everything a Business Owner Must Know
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How to Strike Off a Company Voluntarily — STK-2 Process
How to voluntarily strike off a company using e-Form STK-2 under Section 248(2) — eligibility, special resolution, statement of accounts, affidavits, ₹10,000 fee and the STK-7 dissolution.
Rules 1–3 of the Companies (Removal of Names of Companies from the Register of Companies) Rules, 2016: removal of a company's name by the Registrar on its own motion, the ten classes of company that cannot be removed, and the STK-1 notice
The Registrar may remove the name of a company from the register under section 248(1) after sending a notice in Form STK-1 to all directors by registered post with acknowledgement due or speed post. The notice states the reasons and seeks representations within thirty days from the date of the...
How to Apply for Company Strike Off — STK-2 Process
how to strike off company. Complete guide under Companies Act 2013. Updated March 2026.
Director Liability After a Company Is Struck Off: Section 248, Disqualification and Restoration
Section 248(7) says the liability of every director, manager or other officer who was exercising any power of management, and of every member, continues and may be enforced as if the company had not been dissolved. A director also gives an indemnity bond and an affidavit when the company applies to...
Section 378ZM of the Companies Act, 2013: Penalties for Contravention in a Producer Company
Under s.378ZM(1), a person who is not a registered Producer Company and carries on business under a name containing "Producer Company Limited" is punishable with fine up to Rs 10,000 for every day the name is used. Under (2), a director or officer who wilfully fails to furnish information a Member...
Funds Left in a Company Before Strike Off: Settling Liabilities, Returning Money to Shareholders and When Winding Up Is the Better Route
Section 248(2) allows a voluntary strike-off application only after extinguishing all liabilities, with a special resolution or consent of seventy-five per cent of members in terms of paid-up share capital. The 2016 Rules ask for a statement of accounts made up to a day not more than thirty days...
Sections 378ZQ to 378ZU of the Companies Act, 2013: Overriding Effect, Private Company Rules, Re-conversion and Rule-Making for Producer Companies
Chapter XXIA overrides anything inconsistent in the Act or any other law, but other laws still apply where the Chapter does not vary them (s.378ZQ). All limitations, restrictions and provisions of the Act that apply to a private company apply to a Producer Company as far as may be, so long as they...
Sections 378ZN to 378ZP of the Companies Act, 2013: Merger, Division, Dispute Resolution and Strike Off of a Producer Company
A Producer Company may transfer assets, divide, amalgamate or merge only with other Producer Companies, by a general-meeting resolution supported by two-thirds of Members present and voting (s.378ZN). Dissenters get one month to exit, and an aggrieved Member, creditor or employee may appeal to the...
Rules 1–5 of the Companies (Producer Companies) Rules, 2021: which producer companies the rules apply to, definitions, shifting the registered office from one State to another, and investing general reserves
The Rules apply to a Producer Company as referred to in section 378A, clause (I), and came into force on the date of publication in the Official Gazette. A Producer Company that wants to move its registered office from one State to another follows rules 27, 30 and 31 of the Companies...
Rule 4 of the Companies (Removal of Names of Companies from the Register of Companies) Rules, 2016: the STK-2 application to C-PACE, pending filings, regulators' NOCs, attachments and re-submission
The STK-2 application is made to the Registrar, C-PACE with a fee of ten thousand rupees. It cannot be filed unless the overdue financial statements under section 137 and annual returns under section 92 are filed up to the end of the financial year in which business ceased. It must carry regulator...
Closing a Section 8 Company: Strike Off, Winding Up and Where the Remaining Assets Must Go
Section 248(2) is not open to a Section 8 company (section 248(3)). On winding up or dissolution, assets left after debts may be transferred to another Section 8 company with similar objects, subject to Tribunal conditions, or sold with the proceeds credited to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Fund...
Rules 8–11 of the Companies (Miscellaneous) Rules, 2014: active status in MSC-4, application fees, the fifty-person cap on associations and applications pending on 1 April 2014
A dormant company applies for active status in Form MSC-4, with the fee in the Registration Offices and Fees Rules and a Form MSC-3 return for the financial year of the application. The Registrar issues Form MSC-5. If the company does or omits something that affects its dormant status, its...
Rules 1–7 of the Companies (Miscellaneous) Rules, 2014: applying for dormant company status in MSC-1, the MSC-2 certificate, the register of dormant companies, the minimum number of directors and the annual MSC-3 return
A company applies to the Registrar in Form MSC-1, with the fee provided in the Registration Offices and Fees Rules, after a special resolution in general meeting, or after notice to all shareholders and the consent of at least three-fourths (in value). The Registrar issues the status certificate in...
INC-20A and Strike Off for a Newly Incorporated Company: Commencement of Business, Borrowing Before the Declaration and the Registrar's Power to Remove the Name
Section 10A(1) bars a company with share capital from commencing any business or exercising any borrowing powers until a director files a declaration, within one hundred and eighty days of incorporation, that every subscriber to the memorandum has paid for the shares agreed to be taken, and the...
Dormant Company Compliance Calendar: What a Company With Dormant Status Must Still File Each Year Under Section 455
A dormant company files Form MSC-3, the "Return of Dormant Company" with its financial position duly audited by a chartered accountant in practice, annually within thirty days from the end of each financial year (rule 7). It keeps the minimum number of directors: three for a public company, two for...
Rules 5–10 of the Companies (Removal of Names of Companies from the Register of Companies) Rules, 2016: signing and certifying STK-2, the public notices, foreign nationals' bonds and the STK-7 notice
A director authorised by the Board signs STK-2, and a practising CA, CS or Cost Accountant certifies it. The notice of proposed removal is in STK-5 or STK-6, placed on the MCA website, published in the Gazette and in an English and a vernacular newspaper. The Registrar tells the tax authorities at...