MCA amends Forms STK-1, STK-5, and STK-5A

Notification No. G.S.R. 658(E), Dated 24.08.2022

The MCA has amended Form STK-1, Form STK-5, and Form STK-5A. Now Registrar of the Company (RoC) can issue notice for removal of the name of the company if it finds that a company is not carrying any business or operation from the registered office as revealed during the conduct of the physical verification of the registered office of the company u/s 12(9) of the Companies Act, 2013.

Accordingly, Form STK-5, and Form STK 5A (i.e. Public Notice by RoC) has also been changed.

Under section 12(9) of the Companies Act, 2013, the Registrar, if has a reasonable cause to believe that the company concerned is not carrying on business in a proper manner, can do a physical verification of a company’s registered office in the manner as may be prescribed.

Earlier, the MCA had notified the Companies (Incorporation) Third Amendment Rules, 2022. A new rule 25B has been inserted prescribing the manner of physical verification of the registered office of the company.

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