The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (“MCA”) on 8 May, 2019 has notified the Companies (Removal of Names of Companies from the Register of Companies) Amendment Rules, 2019 (“Amendment Rules”) which shall come into effect from 10 May, 2019. The Amendment rules provides for the following changes:
(a) Explicit requirement of filing the Annual Forms
(i) The MCA vide this amendment has clarified that Companies have to file their overdue returns in AOC-4, AOC-4 XBRL and MGT-7 before filing an application in Form No. STK-2 with the Registrar of Companies (the RoC).
(ii) Company shall not be able to file Form No. STK-2, once it has received the notice of strike-off in Form No. STK-7 from the RoC.
(iii) The statutory fee for making an application for strike off has been increased to INR 10,000.
(b) List of documents to be filed with the RoC.
The application for removing the name of the Company from the RoC in Form No. STK-2 shall be accompanied by the following documents:
- indemnity bond (duly notarised) in Form STK 3;
- a statement of accounts containing assets and liabilities of the company made up to a day, not more than thirty days before the date of application and certified by a Chartered Accountant;
- An affidavit in Form STK 4 by every director of the company;
- a copy of the special resolution duly certified by each of the directors of the company or consent of seventy-five per cent of the members of the company in terms of paid-up share capital as on the date of application;
- a statement regarding pending litigations, if any, involving the company.
As per the amendment rules, the aforementioned statement of accounts shall now be provided in Form No. STK-8 (the format of which has been provided in the Annexure to the principal rules).
Source: http://mca.gov.in/Ministry/pdf/AmendmentRules_08052019.pdf