Arbitration under MSMED Act

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..... Arbitration under MSMED Act - By: - CSLalit Rajput - Corporate Laws / IBC / SEBI - Dated:- 21-8-2021 - - The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ( MSMEs ) are an extremely critical sector for India s economic growth. This has been highlighted during the tough times of COVID-19, where special financial stimulus packages have been showered on this sector by the Central Government. Section .....

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..... 18(3) of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act, 2006 provides that where the conciliation fails under the provisions of the Act, the Micro Small Enterprises Facilitation Council (MSEFC) shall either itself take up the dispute for arbitration or refer it to any institution or centre providing alternate dispute resolution services for such arbitration. Section 18 (4) .....

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..... of the MSMED Act, 2006 provides that the MSEFC or the centre providing alternate dispute resolution services shall have jurisdiction to act as an Arbitrator or Conciliator under this section in a dispute between the supplier located within its jurisdiction and a buyer located anywhere in India. There is a mechanism, namely Trade Receivable Discounting System (TReDS) working as per the guidel .....

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..... ines issued by RBI. It is an electronic platform for facilitating the discounting of trade receivables of MSMEs through multiple financiers. Government of India has also instructed Central Public Sector Enterprises and all companies with a turnover of ₹ 500 Crore or more to get themselves on-boarded on TReDS. In view of the express provision applying the provisions of the Limitation Ac .....

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..... t, 1963 to arbitrations as per Section 43 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, the Limitation Act, 1963 is applicable to the arbitration proceedings under Section 18(3) of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006. - - Scholarly articles for knowledge sharing authors experts professionals Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxman .....

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