TMI BlogMEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION OF A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARESX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ompany set against our respective names: Names, addresses, descriptions and occupations of subscribers No. of shares taken by each subscriber Signature of subscriber Signature, names, addresses, descriptions and occupations of witnesses A.B. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... C.D. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... E.F. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... G.H. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... I.J. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... K.L. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... M.N. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... Total shares taken: 7th I, whos ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Signed before me: Signature...................... C.D. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... E.F. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... G.H. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... I.J. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... K.L. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... M.N. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... 7th I, whose name and address is given below, am desirous of forming a company in pursuance of this memorandum of association (Applicable in case of one person company): Name, address, description and occupation of subscriber Signature of subscriber Signature, name, address, description and occupation of witness A.B. ........Merchant Signed before me ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ...................... E.F. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... G.H. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... I.J. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... K.L. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... M.N. of........Merchant .............. Signed before me: Signature...................... 8th I, whose name and address is given below, am desirous of forming a company in pursuance of this memorandum of association and agree to take all the shares in the capital of the company (Applicable in case of one person company): Name, address, description and occupation of subscriber Signature of subscriber Signature, name, address, description and occupation of witness A.B. ........Merchant Signed before me: Signature...................... 9th Shri/Smt.............., son/daughter of ........... ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Signed before me: Signature...................... 7th Shri/Smt.........., son/daughter of ....................., resident of............ aged............ years shall be the nominee in the event of death of the sole member (Applicable in case of one person company) Dated...................... the day of.................... TABLE -E MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION OF AN UNLIMITED COMPANY AND HAVING SHARE CAPITAL 1st The name of the company is ..................................Company . 2nd The registered office of the company will be situated in the State of................................... 3rd (a) The objects to be pursued by the company on its incorporation are: (b) Matters which are necessary for furtherance of the objects specified in clause 3(a) are: 4th The liability of the member(s) is unlimited. 5th The share capital of the company is..................................rupees, divided into..................................shares of..................................rupees each. 6th We, the several persons, whose names, and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a company in pursuance of this memora ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... bear the same meaning as in the Act or any statutory modification thereof in force at the date at which these regulations become binding on the company. Share capital and variation of rights II. 1. Subject to the provisions of the Act and these Articles, the shares in the capital of the company shall be under the control of the Directors who may issue, allot or otherwise dispose of the same or any of them to such persons, in such proportion and on such terms and conditions and either at a premium or at par and at such time as they may from time to time think fit. 2. (i) Every person whose name is entered as a member in the register of members shall be entitled to receive within two months after incorporation, in case of subscribers to the memorandum or after allotment or within one month after the application for the registration of transfer or transmission or within such other period as the conditions of issue shall be provided, (a) one certificate for all his shares without payment of any charges; or (b) several certificates, each for one or more of his shares, upon payment of twenty rupees for each certificate after the first. ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... res, the rights attached to any class (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class) may, subject to the provisions of section 48, and whether or not the company is being wound up, be varied with the consent in writing of the holders of three-fourths of the issued shares of that class, or with the sanction of a special resolution passed at a separate meeting of the holders of the shares of that class. (ii) To every such separate meeting, the provisions of these regulations relating to general meetings shall mutatis mutandis apply, but so that the necessary quorum shall be at least two persons holding at least one-third of the issued shares of the class in question. 7. The rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class issued with preferred or other rights shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pari passu therewith. 8. Subject to the provisions of section 55, any preference shares may, with the sanction of an ordinary resolution, be issued on the terms that they are to be r ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... The Board may, from time to time, make calls upon the members in respect of any monies unpaid on their shares (whether on account of the nominal value of the shares or by way of premium) and not by the conditions of allotment thereof made payable at fixed times: Provided that no call shall exceed one-fourth of the nominal value of the share or be payable at less than one month from the date fixed for the payment of the last preceding call. (ii) Each member shall, subject to receiving at least fourteen days notice specifying the time or times and place of payment, pay to the company, at the time or times and place so specified, the amount called on his shares. (iii) A call may be revoked or postponed at the discretion of the Board. 14. A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution of the Board authorising the call was passed and may be required to be paid by instalments. 15. The joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all calls in respect thereof. 16. (i) If a sum called in respect of a share is not paid before or on the day appointed for payment thereof, the person fro ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... it relates, and such other evidence as the Board may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer; and (c) The instrument of transfer is in respect of only one class of shares. 22. On giving not less than seven days previous notice in accordance with section 91 and rules made thereunder, the registration of transfers may be suspended at such times and for such periods as the Board may from time to time determine: Provided that such registration shall not be suspended for more than thirty days at any one time or for more than forty-five days in the aggregate in any year. Transmission of shares 23. (i) On the death of a member, the survivor or survivors where the member was a joint holder, and his nominee or nominees or legal representatives where he was a sole holder, shall be the only persons recognised by the company as having any title to his interest in the shares. (ii) Nothing in clause (i) shall release the estate of a deceased joint holder from any liability in respect of any share which had been jointly held by him with other persons. 24. (i) Any person becoming entitled to a ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... e nominee on becoming entitled to such shares in case of the member s death shall be informed of such event by the Board of the company; (iii) such nominee shall be entitled to the same dividends and other rights and liabilities to which such sole member of the company was entitled or liable; (iv) on becoming member, such nominee shall nominate any other person with the prior written consent of such person who, shall in the event of the death of the member, become the member of the company. Forfeiture of shares 28. If a member fails to pay any call, or instalment of a call, on the day appointed for payment thereof, the Board may, at any time thereafter during such time as any part of the call or instalment remains unpaid, serve a notice on him requiring payment of so much of the call or instalment as is unpaid, together with any interest which may have accrued. 29. The notice aforesaid shall (a) name a further day (not being earlier than the expiry of fourteen days from the date of service of the notice) on or before which the payment required by the notice is to be made; and (b) state that, in the event of non-payment on or befor ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Alteration of capital 35. The company may, from time to time, by ordinary resolution increase the share capital by such sum, to be divided into shares of such amount, as may be specified in the resolution. 36. Subject to the provisions of section 61, the company may, by ordinary resolution, (a) consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amount than its existing shares; (b) convert all or any of its fully paid-up shares into stock, and reconvert that stock into fully paid up shares of any denomination; (c) sub-divide its existing shares or any of them into shares of smaller amount than is fixed by the memorandum; (d) cancel any shares which, at the date of the passing of the resolution, have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person. 37. Where shares are converted into stock, (a) the holders of stock may transfer the same or any part thereof in the same manner as, and subject to the same regulations under which, the shares from which the stock arose might before the conversion have been transferred, or as near thereto as circumstances admit: Provided that the Board may, from ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... premium account and a capital redemption reserve account may, for the purposes of this regulation, be applied in the paying up of unissued shares to be issued to members of the company as fully paid bonus shares. (E) The Board shall give effect to the resolution passed by the company in pursuance of this regulation. 40. (i) Whenever such a resolution as aforesaid shall have been passed, the Board shall (a) make all appropriations and applications of the undivided profits resolved to be capitalised thereby, and all allotments and issues of fully paid shares if any; and (b) generally do all acts and things required to give effect thereto. (ii) The Board shall have power (a) to make such provisions, by the issue of fractional certificates or by payment in cash or otherwise as it thinks fit, for the case of shares becoming distributable in fractions; and (b) to authorise any person to enter, on behalf of all the members entitled thereto, into an agreement with the company providing for the allotment to them respectively, credited as fully paid-up, of any further shares to which they may be entitled upon ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... tion is agreed upon by the sole member and communicated to the company and entered in the minutes book maintained under section 118. (ii) such minutes book shall be signed and dated by the member. (iii) the resolution shall become effective from the date of signing such minutes by the sole member. Adjournment of meeting 49. (i) The Chairperson may, with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present, and shall, if so directed by the meeting, adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place. (ii) No business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. (iii) When a meeting is adjourned for thirty days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting. (iv) Save as aforesaid, and as provided in section 103 of the Act, it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting. Voting rights 50. Subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any class or ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 105. 59. A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid, notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal or the revocation of the proxy or of the authority under which the proxy was executed, or the transfer of the shares in respect of which the proxy is given: Provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity, revocation or transfer shall have been received by the company at its office before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the proxy is used. Board of Directors 60. The number of the directors and the names of the first directors shall be determined in writing by the subscribers of the memorandum or a majority of them. 61. (i) The remuneration of the directors shall, in so far as it consists of a monthly payment, be deemed to accrue from day-to-day. (ii) In addition to the remuneration payable to them in pursuance of the Act, the directors may be paid all travelling, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by them (a) in attending and returning from meetings of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... easing the number of directors to that fixed for the quorum, or of summoning a general meeting of the company, but for no other purpose. 70. (i) The Board may elect a chairperson of its meetings and determine the period for which he is to hold office. (ii) If no such Chairperson is elected, or if at any meeting the Chairperson is not present within five minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the directors present may choose one of their number to be Chairperson of the meeting. 71. (i) The Board may, subject to the provisions of the Act, delegate any of its powers to committees consisting of such member or members of its body as it thinks fit. (ii) Any committee so formed shall, in the exercise of the powers so delegated, conform to any regulations that may be imposed on it by the Board. 72. (i) A committee may elect a Chairperson of its meetings. (ii) If no such Chairperson is elected, or if at any meeting the Chairperson is not present within five minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the members present may choose one of their members to be Chairperson of the meeting. 73. (i) ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... on acting both as director and as, or in place of, chief executive officer, manager, company secretary or chief financial officer. The Seal 79. (i) The Board shall provide for the safe custody of the seal. (ii) The seal of the company shall not be affixed to any instrument except by the authority of a resolution of the Board or of a committee of the Board authorised by it in that behalf, and except in the presence of at least two directors and of the secretary or such other person as the Board may appoint for the purpose; and those two directors and the secretary or other person aforesaid shall sign every instrument to which the seal of the company is so affixed in their presence. Dividends and Reserve 80. The company in general meeting may declare dividends, but no dividend shall exceed the amount recommended by the Board. 81. Subject to the provisions of section 123, the Board may from time to time pay to the members such interim dividends as appear to it to be justified by the profits of the company. 82. (i) The Board may, before recommending any dividend, set aside out of the profits of the company such sums as it thinks fit as a reserv ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... vidends, bonuses or other monies payable in respect of such share. 87. Notice of any dividend that may have been declared shall be given to the persons entitled to share therein in the manner mentioned in the Act. 88. No dividend shall bear interest against the company. Accounts 89. (i) The Board shall from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions or regulations, the accounts and books of the company, or any of them, shall be open to the inspection of members not being directors. (ii) No member (not being a director) shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the company except as conferred by law or authorised by the Board or by the company in general meeting. Winding up 90. Subject to the provisions of Chapter XX of the Act and rules made thereunder (i) If the company shall be wound up, the liquidator may, with the sanction of a special resolution of the company and any other sanction required by the Act, divide amongst the members, in specie or kind, the whole or any part of the assets of the company, whether they shall con ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... s may, from time to time, register an increase of members. 2. All the articles of Table F in Schedule I annexed to the Companies Act, 2011 shall be deemed to be incorporated with these articles and to apply to the company. TABLE - H ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE AND NOT HAVING SHARE CAPITAL Interpretation I. (1) In these regulations (a) the Act means the Companies Act, 2011; (b) the seal means the common seal of the company. (2) Unless the context otherwise requires, words or expressions contained in these regulations shall have the same meaning as in the Act or any statutory modification thereof in force at the date at which these regulations become binding on the company. Members II. 1. The number of members with which the company proposes to be registered is hundred, but the Board of directors may, from time to time, whenever the company or the business of the company requires it, register an increase of members. 2. The subscribers to the memorandum and such other persons as the Board shall admit to membership shall be members of the company. General meetings ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... n order has been made by any Court having jurisdiction in lunacy, may vote, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, by his committee or other legal guardian, and any such committee or guardian may, on a poll, vote by proxy. 12. No member shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting unless all sums presently payable by him to the company have been paid. 13. (i) No objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered, and every vote not disallowed at such meeting shall be valid for all purposes. (ii) Any such objection made in due time shall be referred to the chairperson of the meeting, whose decision shall be final and conclusive. 14. A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid, notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal or the revocation of the proxy or of the authority under which the proxy was executed, or the transfer of the shares in respect of which the proxy is given: Provided that no intimation in writing of such death, insanity, revocation or transfer shall ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... time appointed for holding the meeting, the directors present may choose one of their members to be Chairperson of the meeting. 23. (i) The Board may, subject to the provisions of the Act, delegate any of its powers to committees consisting of such member or members of its body as it thinks fit. (ii) Any committee so formed shall, in the exercise of the powers so delegated, conform to any regulations that may be imposed on it by the Board. 24. (i) A committee may elect a chairperson of its meetings. (ii) If no such chairperson is elected, or if at any meeting the chairperson is not present within five minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the members present may choose one of their members to be Chairperson of the meeting. 25. (i) A committee may meet and adjourn as it thinks proper. (ii) Questions arising at any meeting of a committee shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present, and in case of an equality of votes, the chairman shall have a second or casting vote. 26. All acts done by any meeting of the Board or of a committee thereof or by any person acting as a director, ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ssociation who shall add his address, description and occupation, if any, in the presence of at least one witness who shall attest the signature and shall likewise add his address, description and occupation, if any, and such signatures shall be in form specified below: Names, addresses, descriptions and occupations of subscribers Witnesses (along with names, addresses, descriptions and occupations) A.B. of........Merchant Signed before me: Signature...................... C.D. of........Merchant Signed before me: Signature...................... E.F. of........Merchant Signed before me: Signature...................... G.H. of........Merchant Signed before me: Signature...................... I.J. of........Merchant Signed before me: Signature...................... K.L. of........Merchant Signed before me: Signature...................... M.N. of........Merchant Signed before me: Signature...................... Dated the ..day of 20 Place: ................................ TABLE I ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF AN UNLIMITED COMPA ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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