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The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) deals with the administration of companies in India. The Registrar of Companies (ROC), comes under the MCA. The ROC, of a State/Union Territories, has the primary duty of registering companies and Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) floated in their respective States/UT, as per Section 609 of the Companies Act, 1956. The purpose was to ensure that all companies are compliant with the statutory requirements of the Companies Act, 1956. Or the Companies Act 2013, in case of LLPs.
The Central Government has administrative control over these offices through Regional Directors.
ROC also controls new Company Registration, any renewals, or changes in the existing ones.
It maintains all records related to all the companies registered with them. The general public can pay a stipulated fee and check Registered Company Details.
Role of the ROC
Company Registration requirements: A company is formed under Section 3 of the Companies Act by applying with the ROC of the respective state.
Company Incorporation: Subsequently, if all requirements have been met with, the ROC may provide you with an Incorporation Certificate, which is the definitive proof of the existence of your organization.
Discontinuation: A company cannot just close down its operations and cease to exist. Due papers for Corporate Insolvency need to be filed with the Registrar of Companies, certifying the decision to terminate the business.
Winding Up: The ROC can also file a petition for winding up of a company.
Details of a Company: It organizes details about the companies, its directors, and those holding its Share certificate.
Keeping checks: The Registrar of Companies can ask for supplementary information from any company. With prior approval of the court, it can search its premises, and/or seize its accounts.
Reporting with the Government: It reports and directs the Central Government with several issues, such as updates required in various reports, documents, Annual Return Filing, etc.
Refusal to Register a company: No company with unlawful objectives or objectionable names can be registered.
Post Registration: You’ll have to intimate the Registrar of Companies in case you want to bring any changes or updates in the company structure. For example, changes in the Registered Office of Company, director’s appointments, Changing Name of a Company, expansion, etc.
Business Culture: The ROC plays an essential part in promoting a culture of high transparency in the company’s operations.
Documents to be submitted with the ROC
- Stamped Copy of Memorandum of Articles (MOA), and a spare copy. It needs to be stamped with the required value of Revenue Stamps.
- Under the Subscription Clause of the MoA, the shareholders need to write his full name and father’s/husband’s full name in block letters, full address, post/occupation, etc. And the total number of equity shares taken, under column “Total number of equity shares”. Then put his or her signatures in the signature column, mentioning Date & Place.
- Articles Of Association (AOA), duly stamped copy, and a spare photocopy.
- In the AoA, the subscriber is to write his full name and father’s/husband’s full name in block letters, full address, post/occupation.
- The signatures in the MoA & AoA are to be witnessed by one person, preferably the person who is representing these shareholders, for registration of the proposed company before the Registrar of Companies.
- Declaration
- Original copy of the letter from the ROC confirming the availability of an appropriate Company Name, by the filing of either Reserve Unique Name (RUN) Form or SPICe Form.
- Form #18, mentioning the Address of the registered office of the proposed company.
- Form #29 or the Director’s consent. Dates on the Consent Form and the Undertaking Letter must match with the MoA signed by the director himself. This is applicable in the case of a Public Company.
- Form #32 with Particulars of the Proposed Directors, Manager, or secretary.
- Power of Attorney printed on a Non-Judicial Stamp Paper of value, as applicable. The Stamp Paper must be purchased in the name of the persons who would be signing the authority.
- Any agreements, that the company plans to enter with any individual for appointment as managing or manager are to be filed.
- No Objection Certificate, signed by those persons whose name has been given in the Application for RUN Form or SPICe Form. In the event, they don’t want to maintain their association with the company.
- Fees as Applicable can be paid in cash, Bank Draft, or Pay Order. The Draft/Pay Order has to be drawn in the name of the Registrar of Companies of the particular State in which you are seeking your Company Registration.
After Filing the Documents for Incorporation
Once the documents have been duly filed, the ROC registers the company’s name in the register of companies. The company would receive a Certificate of Incorporation. Along with this, the Registrar also issues a Certificate of Commencement of Business. A Public Limited Company needs to get this certificate before commencing business.
Filing Resolutions with the Registrar of Companies
Provisions Section 117 of the Companies Act state that every Resolution, taken at the Board Meeting is required to be filed with the ROC within 30 days of being passed. The Registrar of Companies has to record all the resolutions. Failure to do so, within the stipulated time, would result in a penalty. In other words, a company is required to communicate the ROC with all activities, including the appointment of directors/managing directors/sole-selling agents/agents, issuing a prospectus, and the resolution of voluntary winding up, etc.
Why the ROC need this information
Many people may wonder as to why the Registrar of Companies has to keep such information?
A registered company is considered as an artificial legal person, in India. It has an independent & separate legal entity, with its seal for its signatures, capital comprising of shares. Any company carries limited liability and certain other attributes. It has a perpetual existence that is independent of its members and promoters.
The ROC is responsible for what a company does. A company cannot take up activities that have not been stated in the Objects Clause of its MOA.
This information is significant for a company’s current and prospective stakeholders. Legally, all stakeholders are supposed to know about its business, the board of directors, registered office, capital, liability, directors, powers of directors, etc. If the responsible person doesn’t file the information, within due time, with the ROC, then that person would be considered liable. The company won’t be held responsible for any unauthorized acts of its directors or members.
ROC – Address & Contact Details
ROC ANDHRA PRADESH & TELANGANA
Sh. N. Krishnamoorthy (ROC Hyderabad)
2ND Floor, Corporate Bhawan,
GSI Post, Tattiannaram Nagole, Bandlaguda
Hyderabad – 500 068
Phone: 040-29805427/29803827/29801927
Fax: 040-29803727
[email protected]
ROC ASSAM, MEGHALAYA, MANIPURA, TRIPURA, MIZORAM, NAGALAND & ARUNACHAL PRADESH
Sh. Lakshmi Prasad K (ROC Shillong)
Morello Building,
Ground Floor
Shillong – 793001
Phone: 0364-2504093
[email protected]
ROC BIHAR & JHARKHAND
Sh. U.S Patole (ROC Patna)
Maurya Lok Complex, Block A
Western Wing, 4th Floor,
Dak Bungalow Road
Patna – 800001
Phone: 0612-222172
Fax: 0612-222172
[email protected]
Sh. Swadhin Barua (ROC Ranchi)
House No-239, Road No-4
Magistrate Colony, Doranda
Ranchi: 834002, Jharkhand
Phone: 0651-2482811/2480801
ROC CHATTISGARH
Sh. R.K. Sahu (ROC cum OL for Bilaspur )
Ist Floor,
Ashok Pingley Bhawan,
Municipal Corporation,
Nehru Chowk, Bilaspur- 495001
Chattisgarh
Phone: (07752)-250092(D),250094
Fax: (07752)- 250093
[email protected]
ROC DELHI & HARYANA
Sh. D. Bandopadhyay(ROC Delhi)
A) 4th Floor, IFCI Tower,
61, Nehru Place,
New Delhi – 110019
Phone: 011-26235707, 26235708, 26235709
Fax: 011-26235702
[email protected]
For Physical Verification Of Documents :
B) Plot No. 6,7 & 8,Basement,
IICA Campus, Sector-5, IMT-Manesar,
Gurgaon, Haryana
Phone: 124-2291520
GOA, DAMAN & DIU
Sh. V. P. Katkar (ROC Goa)
Company Law Bhawan
EDC Complex, Plot No. 21
Patto, Panaji, Goa-403 001
Phone/Fax(Off) 0832-2438617 / 2438618
[email protected]
ROC GUJARAT
Sh. Vijay Khubchandani (ROC Ahmedabad)
ROC Bhavan, Opp Rupal Park Society,
Behind Ankur Bus Stop,
Naranpura, Ahmedabad-380013
Phone: 079-27437597,
Fax 079-27438371
[email protected]
ROC JAMMU AND KASHMIR
Sh. O.P. Sharma (AOL (acting ROC cum OL) J&K)
Hall No.405-408,
South Block, Bahu Plaza,
Rail Head Complex,
Jammu – 180012
Phone: 0191-2470306
Fax: 0191-2470306
[email protected]
ROC KARNATAKA
Sh. M. R. Bhat (ROC Banglore)
‘E’ Wing, 2nd Floor
Kendriya Sadana
Kormangala, Banglore-560034
Phone: 080-25633105 (Direct),
080-25537449/25633104
Fax: 080-25538531
[email protected]
ROC KERALA
Sh. A Sehar Ponraj (ROC Ernakulam)
Company Law Bhawan, BMC Road
Thrikkakara
Kochi – 682021
Phone: 0484-2423749/2421489
Fax: 0484-2422327
[email protected]
ROC MADHYA PRADESH
Sh. J.N. Tikku (ROC Gwalior )
3rd Floor, ‘A’ Block, Sanjay Complex
Jayendra Ganj, Gwalior
Phone: 0751-2321907
Fax: 0751-2331853
[email protected]
ROC MAHARASHTRA
A) Mumbai
Dr. T. Pandian (ROC Mumbai)
100, Everest,
Marine Drive
Mumbai- 400002.
Phone: 022-22812627/22020295/22846954
Fax: 022-22811977
[email protected]
B) Smt. Vijaya Khandare
(ROC Pune)
Registrar Of Companies
PMT Building,
Pune Stock Exchange,
3rd Floor, Deccan Gymkhana,
Pune-411004
Phone: 020-25521376
Fax: 020-25530042
[email protected]
ROC ORISSA
Sh. B. Mishra (ROC Cuttack)
Corporate Bhawan, 3rd Floor,
Plot No. 9 (P), Sector: 1,
CDA, Cuttack: 753014
Phone: 0671-2365361, 2366958, 266952,
Fax: 0671-2305361
[email protected]
ROC PUDUCHERRY
Sh. C. M. Karl Marx (ROC Puducherry)
No. 35 First Floor
Elango Nagar
Puducherry – 605011
Phone: 0413-2240129
[email protected]
ROC PUNJAB, CHANDIGARH & HIMACHAL PRADESH
Sh. Santosh Kumar (ROC Chandigarh and Shimla)
Corporate Bhawan, Plot No.4 B,
Sector 27 B, Madhya Marg,
Chandigarh – 160019
Phone: 0172-2639415,2639416
Fax: 0172-2639416
[email protected]
ROC RAJASTHAN
Sh.R.K.Meena (ROC Jaipur)
Corporate Bhawan
G/6-7, Second Floor, Residency Area
Civil Lines, Jaipur-302001
Phone: 0141-2222465,2222466
Fax: 0141-2222464
[email protected]
ROC TAMIL NADU
Shri Sridhar Parmarthi
a) Chennai
Block No.6, B Wing 2nd Floor
Shastri Bhawan 26,
Haddows Road,
Chennai – 600034
Phone: 044-28270071
Fax: 044-28234298
[email protected]
b) Coimbatore
Sh. N.Ramanathan (ROC Coimbatore)
Registrar Of Companies
Stock Exchange Building, II-Floor,
683, Trichy Road, Singanallur,
Coimbatore – 641 005
Phone: (0422) – 2318170 (D), 2318089, 2319640
Fax: (0422) – 2318089
[email protected]
ROC UTTAR PRADESH & UTTARAKHAND
Sh. S.P.Kumar (ROC Kanpur & Nainital)
10/499 B, Allenganj,
Khalasi line
Kanpur-208002
Phone: 0512-2550688
Fax: 0512-2540423
[email protected]
ROC WEST BENGAL
Sh. B. Mohanty(ROC Kolkata)
Nizam Palace
2nd MSO Building
2nd Floor, 234/4, A.J.C.B. Road
Kolkata – 700020
Phone: 033-2287 7390
Fax 033-22903795
[email protected]
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