Format of AOA (Article of Association) as per New Companies Act 2013

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ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF A COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
Interpretation
I. (1) In these regulations—
(a) “the Act” means the Companies Act, 2013,
(b) “the seal” means the common seal of the company.
(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, words or expressions contained in these regulations shall 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.
(ii) Every certificate shall be under the seal and shall specify the shares to which it relates and the amount paid-up
thereon.
(iii) In respect of any share or shares held jointly by several persons, the company shall not be bound to issue
more than one certificate, and delivery of a certificate for a share to one of several joint holders shall be sufficient
delivery to all such holders.
3. (i) If any share certificate be worn out, defaced, mutilated or torn or if there be no further space on the back for
endorsement of transfer, then upon production and surrender thereof to the company, a new certificate may be
issued in lieu thereof, and if any certificate is lost or destroyed then upon proof thereof to the satisfaction of the
company and on execution of such indemnity as the company deem adequate, a new certificate in lieu thereof shall
be given. Every certificate under this Article shall be issued on payment of twenty rupees for each certificate.
(ii) The provisions of Articles (2) and (3) shall mutatis mutandis apply to debentures of the company.
4. Except as required by law, no person shall be recognised by the company as holding any share upon any trust,
and the company shall not be bound by, or be compelled in any way to recognise (even when having notice thereof)
any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share, or any interest in any fractional part of a share, or
(except only as by these regulations or by law otherwise provided) any other rights in respect of any share except an
absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered holder.

5 (i) The company may exercise the powers of paying commissions conferred by sub-section (6) of section 40,
provided that the rate per cent. or the amount of the commission paid or agreed to be paid shall be disclosed in the
manner required by that section and rule made thereunder.
(ii) The rate or amount of the commission shall not exceed the rate or amount prescribed in rules made under sub-
section (6) of section 40.
(iii) The commission may be satisfied by the payment of cash or the allotment of fully or partly paid shares or
partly in the one way and partly in the other.
6. (i) If at any time the share capital is divided into different classes of shares, 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 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 share 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 redeemed on such terms and in such manner as the company before the issue
of the shares may, by special resolution, determine.
Lien
9 . (i) The company shall have a first and paramount lien—
(a) on every share (not being a fully paid share), for all monies (whether presently payable or not) called, or
payable at a fixed time, in respect of that share; and
(b) on all shares (not being fully paid shares) standing registered in the name of a single person, for all monies
presently payable by him or his estate to the company:
Provided that the Board of directors may at any time declare any share to wholly or in part exempt from the
provisions of this clause.
(ii) The company’s lien, if any, on a share shall extend to all dividend bonuses declared from time to time in
respect of such shares.
10. The company may sell, in such manner as the Board thinks fit, any shares on which the company has a lien:
Provided that no sale shall be made—
(a) unless a sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable; or
(b) until the expiration of fourteen days after a notice in writing stating and demanding payment of such part of
the amount in respect of which the lien exists as is presently payable, has been given to the registered holder for the
time being of the share or the person entitled thereto by reason of his death or insolvency.
11. (i) To give effect to any such sale, the Board may authorise some person to transfer the shares sold to the
purchaser thereof.

(ii) The purchaser shall be registered as the holder of the shares comprised in any such transfer.
(iii) The purchaser shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the
shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the sale.
12. (i) The proceeds of the sale shall be received by the company and applied in payment of such part of the amount
in respect of which the lien exists as is presently payable.
(ii) The residue, if any, shall, subject to a like lien for sums not presently payable as existed upon the shares
before the sale, be paid to the person entitled to the shares at the date of the sale.
Calls on shares
13. (i) 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 from whom the sum is due shall pay interest thereon from the day appointed for payment thereof to the time
of actual payment at ten per cent. per annum or at such lower rate, if any, as the Board may determine.
(ii) The Board shall be at liberty to waive payment of any such interest wholly or in part.
17. (i) Any sum which by the terms of issue of a share becomes payable on allotment or at any fixed date, whether
on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium, shall, for the purposes of these regulations, be
deemed to be a call duly made and payable on the date on which by the terms of issue such sum becomes payable.
(ii) In case of non-payment of such sum, all the relevant provisions of these regulations as to payment of interest
and expenses, forfeiture or otherwise shall apply as if such sum had become payable by virtue of a call duly made
and notified.
18. The Board—
(a) may, if it thinks fit, receive from any member willing to advance the same, all or any part of the monies
uncalled and unpaid upon any shares held by him; and
(b) upon all or any of the monies so advanced, may (until the same would, but for such advance, become
presently payable) pay interest at such rate not exceeding, unless the company in general meeting shall otherwise

direct, twelve per cent. per annum, as may be agreed upon between the Board and the member paying the sum in
advance.
Transfer of shares
19. (i) The instrument of transfer of any share in the company shall be executed by or on behalf of both the
transferor and transferee.
(ii) The transferor shall be deemed to remain a holder of the share until the name of the transferee is entered in
the register of members in respect thereof.
20. The Board may, subject to the right of appeal conferred by section 58 decline to register—
(a) the transfer of a share, not being a fully paid share, to a person of whom they do not approve; or
(b) any transfer of shares on which the company has a lien.
21. The Board may decline to recognise any instrument of transfer unless—
(a) the instrument of transfer is in the form as prescribed in rules made under sub-section (1) of section 56;
(b) the instrument of transfer is accompanied by the certificate of the shares to which 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 shareholder, shall be the only persons recognized 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 share in consequence of the death or insolvency of a member may, upon
such evidence being produced as may from time to time properly be required by the Board and subject as hereinafter
provided, elect, either—
(a) to be registered himself as holder of the share; or
(b) to make such transfer of the share as the deceased or insolvent member could have made.
(ii) The Board shall, in either case, have the same right to decline or suspend registration as it would have had, if
the deceased or insolvent member had transferred the share before his death or insolvency.

25. (i) If the person so becoming entitled shall elect to be registered as holder of the share himself, he shall deliver
or send to the company a notice in writing signed by him stating that he so elects.
(ii) If the person aforesaid shall elect to transfer the share, he shall testify his election by executing a transfer of
the share.
(iii) All the limitations, restrictions and provisions of these regulations relating to the right to transfer and the
registration of transfers of shares shall be applicable to any such notice or transfer as aforesaid as if the death or
insolvency of the member had not occurred and the notice or transfer were a transfer signed by that member.
26. A person becoming entitled to a share by reason of the death or insolvency of the holder shall be entitled to the
same dividends and other advantages to which he would be entitled if he were the registered holder of the share,
except that he shall not, before being registered as a member in respect of the share, be entitled in respect of it to
exercise any right conferred by membership in relation to meetings of the company:
Provided that the Board may, at any time, give notice requiring any such person to elect either to be registered
himself or to transfer the share, and if the notice is not complied with within ninety days, the Board may thereafter
withhold payment of all dividends, bonuses or other monies payable in respect of the share, until the requirements of
the notice have complied with.
27. In case of a One Person Company—
(i) on the death of the sole member, the person nominated by such member shall be the person recognized by the
company as having title to all the shares of the member;
(ii) the 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 installment 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 installment remains unpaid, serve a notice on
him requiring payment of so much of the call or installment 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 before the day so named, the shares in respect of which the call
was made shall be liable to be forfeited.
30. If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect of which the
notice has been given may, at any time thereafter, before the payment required by the notice has been made, be
forfeited by a resolution of the Board to that effect

.
31. (i) A forfeited share may be sold or otherwise disposed of on such terms and in such manner as the Board thinks
fit.
(ii) At any time before a sale or disposal as aforesaid, the Board may cancel the forfeiture on such terms as it
thinks fit.
32. (i) A person whose shares have been forfeited shall cease to be a member in respect of the forfeited shares, but
shall, notwithstanding the forfeiture, remain liable to pay to the company all monies which, at the date of forfeiture,
were presently payable by him to the company in respect of the shares.
(ii) The liability of such person shall cease if and when the company shall have received payment in full of all
such monies in respect of the shares.
33 (i) A duly verified declaration in writing that the declarant is a director, the manager or the secretary, of the
company, and that a share in the company has been duly forfeited on a date stated in the declaration, shall be
conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share;
(ii) The company may receive the consideration, if any, given for the share on any sale or disposal thereof and
may execute a transfer of the share in favour of the person to whom the share is sold or disposed of;
(iii) The transferee shall thereupon be registered as the holder of the share; and
(iv) The transferee shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, if any, nor shall his title to
the share be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture, sale or
disposal of the share.
34. The provisions of these regulations as to forfeiture shall apply in the case of nonpayment of any sum which, by
the terms of issue of a share, becomes payable at a fixed time, whether on account of the nominal value of the share
or by way of premium, as if the same had been payable by virtue of a call duly made and notified.
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 time to time, fix the minimum amount of stock transferable, so, however, that
such minimum shall not exceed the nominal amount of the shares from which the stock arose.
(b) the holders of stock shall, according to the amount of stock held by them, have the same rights, privileges and
advantages as regards dividends, voting at meetings of the company, and other matters, as if they held the shares
from which the stock arose; but no such privilege or advantage (except participation in the dividends and profits of
the company and in the assets on winding up) shall be conferred by an amount of stock which would not, if existing
in shares, have conferred that privilege or advantage.
(c) such of the regulations of the company as are applicable to paid-up shares shall apply to stock and the words
“share” and “shareholder” in those regulations shall include “stock” and “stock-holder” respectively.
38. The company may, by special resolution, reduce in any manner and with, and subject to, any incident
authorised and consent required by law,—
(a) its share capital;
(b) any capital redemption reserve account; or
(c) any share premium account.
Capitalisation of profits
39. (i) The company in general meeting may, upon the recommendation of the Board, resolve—
(a) that it is desirable to capitalise any part of the amount for the time being standing to the credit of any of the
company’s reserve accounts, or to the credit of the profit and loss account, or otherwise available for distribution;
and
(b) that such sum be accordingly set free for distribution in the manner specified in clause (ii) amongst the
members who would have been entitled thereto, if distributed by way of dividend and in the same proportions.
(ii) The sum aforesaid shall not be paid in cash but shall be applied, subject to the provision contained in clause
(iii), either in or towards—
(A) paying up any amounts for the time being unpaid on any shares held by such members respectively;
(B) paying up in full, unissued shares of the company to be allotted and distributed, credited as fully paid-up, to
and amongst such members in the proportions aforesaid;
(C) partly in the way specified in sub-clause (A) and partly in that specified in sub-clause (B);
(D) A securities 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 such capitalisation, or as the case may require, for the payment by the company on their
behalf, by the application thereto of their respective proportions of profits resolved to be capitalised, of the amount
or any part of the amounts remaining unpaid on their existing shares;
(iii) Any agreement made under such authority shall be effective and binding on such members.
Buy-back of shares
41. Notwithstanding anything contained in these articles but subject to the provisions of sections 68 to 70 and any
other applicable provision of the Act or any other law for the time being in force, the company may purchase its own
shares or other specified securities.
General meetings
42. All general meetings other than annual general meeting shall be called extraordinary general meeting.
43. (i) The Board may, whenever it thinks fit, call an extraordinary general meeting.
(ii) If at any time directors capable of acting who are sufficient in number to form a quorum are not within India,
any director or any two members of the company may call an extraordinary general meeting in the same manner, as
nearly as possible, as that in which such a meeting may be called by the Board.
Proceedings at general meetings
44 (i) No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum of members is present at the time
when the meeting proceeds to business.
(ii) Save as otherwise provided herein, the quorum for the general meetings shall be as provided in section 103.
45 . The chairperson, if any, of the Board shall preside as Chairperson at every general meeting of the company.
46. If there is no such Chairperson, or if he is not present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding
the meeting, or is unwilling to act as chairperson of the meeting, the directors present shall elect one of their
members to be Chairperson of the meeting.
47. If at any meeting no director is willing to act as Chairperson or if no director is present within fifteen minutes
after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the members present shall choose one of their members to be
Chairperson of the meeting.
48 . In case of a One Person Company—
(i) the resolution required to be passed at the general meetings of the company shall be deemed to have been
passed if the resolution 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 classes of shares,—
(a) on a show of hands, every member present in person shall have one vote; and
(b) on a poll, the voting rights of members shall be in proportion to his share in the paid-up equity share capital of
the company.
51. A member may exercise his vote at a meeting by electronic means in accordance with section 108 and shall vote
only once.
52. (i) In the case of joint holders, the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall be
accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders.
(ii) For this purpose, seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the register of
members.
53. A member of unsound mind, or in respect of whom an 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.
54. Any business other than that upon which a poll has been demanded may be proceeded with, pending the taking
of the poll.
55. No member shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting unless all calls or other sums presently payable by
him in respect of shares in the company have been paid.
56. (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.
Proxy

57. The instrument appointing a proxy and the power-of-attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed
or a notarised copy of that power or authority, shall be deposited at the registered office of the company not less than
48 hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named in the instrument
proposes to vote, or, in the case of a poll, not less than 24 hours before the time appointed for the taking of the poll;
and in default the instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid.
58. An instrument appointing a proxy shall be in the form as prescribed in the rules made under section 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 or general
meetings of the company; or
(b) in connection with the business of the company.
62. The Board may pay all expenses incurred in getting up and registering the company.
63. The company may exercise the powers conferred on it by section 88 with regard to the keeping of a foreign
register; and the Board may (subject to the provisions of that (section) make and vary such regulations as it may
thinks fit respecting the keeping of any such register.
64. All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, hundis, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments, and all
receipts for monies paid to the company, shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed, or otherwise executed, as the
case may be, by such person and in such manner as the Board shall from time to time by resolution determine.
65. Every director present at any meeting of the Board or of a committee thereof shall sign his name in a book to be
kept for that purpose.
66. (i) Subject to the provisions of section 149, the Board shall have power at any time, and from time to time, to
appoint a person as an additional director, provided the number of the directors and additional directors together
shall not at any time exceed the maximum strength fixed for the Board by the articles.
(ii) Such person shall hold office only up to the date of the next annual general meeting of the company but shall
be eligible for appointment by the company as a director at that meeting subject to the provisions of the Act.
Proceedings of the Board

67. (i) The Board of Directors may meet for the conduct of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate its meetings, as
it thinks fit.
(ii) A director may, and the manager or secretary on the requisition of a director shall, at any time, summon a
meeting of the Board.
68. (i) Save as otherwise expressly provided in the Act, questions arising at any meeting of the Board shall be
decided by a majority of votes.
(ii) In case of an equality of votes, the Chairperson of the Board, if any, shall have a second or casting vote.
69. The continuing directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in the Board; but, if and so long as their number
is reduced below the quorum fixed by the Act for a meeting of the Board, the continuing directors or director may
act for the purpose of increasing 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) A committee may meet and adjourn as it thinks fit.
(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 Chairperson shall have a second or casting vote.
74. All acts done in any meeting of the Board or of a committee thereof or by any person acting as a director, shall,
notwithstanding that it may be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any one or
more of such directors or of any person acting as aforesaid, or that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid
as if every such director or such person had been duly appointed and was qualified to be a director.
75. Save as otherwise expressly provided in the Act, a resolution in writing, signed by all the members of the Board
or of a committee thereof, for the time being entitled to receive notice of a meeting of the Board or committee, shall
be valid and effective as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Board or committee, duly convened and held.
76 In case of a One Person Company—
(i) where the company is having only one director, all the businesses to be transacted at the meeting of the Board
shall be entered into minutes book maintained under section 118;
(ii) such minutes book shall be signed and dated by the director;

(iii) the resolution shall become effective from the date of signing such minutes by the director.
Chief Executive Officer, Manager, Company Secretary or Chief Financial Officer
77. Subject to the provisions of the Act,—
(i) A chief executive officer, manager, company secretary or chief financial officer may be appointed by the
Board for such term, at such remuneration and upon such conditions as it may thinks fit; and any chief executive
officer, manager, company secretary or chief financial officer so appointed may be removed by means of a
resolution of the Board;
(ii) A director may be appointed as chief executive officer, manager, company secretary or chief financial officer.
78. A provision of the Act or these regulations requiring or authorising a thing to be done by or to a director and
chief executive officer, manager, company secretary or chief financial officer shall not be satisfied by its being done
by or to the same person 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 reserve or reserves which shall, at the discretion of the Board, be applicable for any purpose to
which the profits of the company may be properly applied, including provision for meeting contingencies or for
equalizing dividends; and pending such application, may, at the like discretion, either be employed in the business of
the company or be invested in such investments (other than shares of the company) as the Board may, from time to
time, thinks fit.
(ii) The Board may also carry forward any profits which it may consider necessary not to divide, without setting
them aside as a reserve.
83. (i) Subject to the rights of persons, if any, entitled to shares with special rights as to dividends, all dividends shall
be declared and paid according to the amounts paid or credited as paid on the shares in respect whereof the dividend
is paid, but if and so long as nothing is paid upon any of the shares in the company, dividends may be declared and
paid according to the amounts of the shares.
(ii) No amount paid or credited as paid on a share in advance of calls shall be treated for the purposes of this
regulation as paid on the share.

(iii) All dividends shall be apportioned and paid proportionately to the amounts paid or credited as paid on the
shares during any portion or portions of the period in respect of which the dividend is paid; but if any share is issued
on terms providing that it shall rank for dividend as from a particular date such share shall rank for dividend
accordingly.
84. The Board may deduct from any dividend payable to any member all sums of money, if any, presently payable
by him to the company on account of calls or otherwise in relation to the shares of the company.
85. (i) Any dividend, interest or other monies payable in cash in respect of shares maybe paid by cheque or warrant
sent through the post directed to the registered address of the holder or, in the case of joint holders, to the registered
address of that one of the joint holders who is first named on the register of members, or to such person and to such
address as the holder or joint holders may in writing direct.
(ii) Every such cheque or warrant shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent.
86. Any one of two or more joint holders of a share may give effective receipts for any dividends, 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 consist of property of the same kind or not.
(ii) For the purpose aforesaid, the liquidator may set such value as he deems fair upon any property to be divided
as aforesaid and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between the members or different classes
of members.
(iii) The liquidator may, with the like sanction, vest the whole or any part of such assets in trustees upon such
trusts for the benefit of the contributories if he considers necessary, but so that no member shall be compelled to
accept any shares or other securities whereon there is any liability.
Indemnity
91 . Every officer of the company shall be indemnified out of the assets of the company against any liability
incurred by him in defending any proceedings, whether civil or criminal, in which judgment is given in his favour or
in which he is acquitted or in which relief is granted to him by the court or the Tribunal.

Note: The Articles shall be signed by each subscriber of the memorandum of association 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:
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Names, addresses, descriptions Witnesses (along with names, addresses,
and occupations of subscribers descriptions and occupations)
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A.B. of………….Merchant Signed before me
Signature…………….
C.D. of………….Merchant Signed before me
E.F. of………….Merchant Signed before me
G.H. of………….Merchant Signed before me
I.J. of………….Merchant Signed before me
K.L. of………….Merchant Signed before me
M.N. of………….Merchant Signed before me
Dated the……..day of ……20……
Place: ................................

Format of AOA (Article of Association) as per New Companies Act 2013

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