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Schedule III- Form of the statement in LIEU of prospectus to be delivered to registrar

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SCHEDULE III

(See section 70)

FORM OF STATEMENT IN LIEU OF PROSPECTUS TO BE DELIVERED TO REGISTRAR BY A COMPANY WHICH DOES NOT ISSUE A PROSPECTUS OR WHICH DOES NOT GO TO ALLOTMENT ON A PROSPECTUS ISSUED, AND REPORTS TO BE SET OUT THERE-IN

FORM OF STATEMENT AND PARTICULARS TO BE CONTAINED THEREIN

PART I

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956

Statement in lieu of Prospectus delivered for registration by [Insert the name of the company.] Pursuant to section 70 of the Companies Act, 1956

Delivered for registration by the nominal share capital of the Rs…… company.

Divided into…………………..shares of Rs…….each.

“     ”  Rs…….each.

“     ”  Rs…….each.

Amount (if any) of above capital…shares of Rs…….each. which consists of redeemable preference shares.

The earliest date on which the company has power to redeem these shares.

Names, addresses, descriptions and occupations of –

(a)        directors or proposed directors;

(b)        managing director or proposed managing director;

(c)        managing agent or proposed managing agent;

(d)        secretaries  and  treasurers  or proposed secretaries and treasurers;

(e)        manager or proposed manager.

Any  provision in the articles of the company,  or in any contract irrespective of the time when  it was   entered  into, as to  the appointment  of  and remuneration payable to the persons referred  to in  (a),  (b),  (c),  (d)  and  (e) above.

If the share capital of the company is  divided into different  classes of  shares, the right of voting  at meetings  of the company conferred by, and  the rights in  respect of capital and dividends attached  to, the several classes of shares respectively.

Number and amount of shares and             1    shares of Rs.. fully paid debentures agreed to be issued as fully or partly paid up otherwise

2    shares upon which Rs. per than in cash.

share credited as paid. The consideration for the intended              3    debentures     Rs……..

issue of those shares and debentures.Number, description and amount of any shares or debentures which any person has or is entitled to be given an option to subscribe for, or to                  4    Consideration:

acquire from, a person to whom                        1.   ….shares of Rs… and

they have been allotted or agreed                           debentures of Rs……

to be allotted with a view to his

offering them for sale.

Period during which the option is exercisable.    2.   Until

Price to be paid for shares or                           3.

debentures subscribed for or

acquired under the option.

Consideration for the option or the                    4.   Consideration:

right to option.

Persons to whom the option or the                   5.   Names and  addresses –

right  to  option was given or, if given to existing shareholders or debenture holders as such, the relevant shares or debentures. Names, occupations and addresses of vendors of property purchased or acquired, or proposed to  be  purchased  or acquired by the company except  where the contract for its purchase or acquisition was entered into in the ordinary course of the business intended to be carried on by the company or the amount of the purchase money is not material.

Amount (in cash, shares or debentures) payable to each separate vendor.

Amount (if any) paid or payable (in Total purchase price Rs. cash, shares or debentures) for Cash                 Rs .   each such property, specifying                         Shares              Rs. amount (if any) paid or payable                         Debentures        Rs. for goodwill.                                                                            ————- Goodwill            Rs.

Short particulars of every transaction relating to each such property which was completed within the two preceding years and in which any vendor to the company or any person who is, or was at the time thereof a promoter director or proposed director of the company had any interest, direct or indirect.

Amount (if any) paid or payable as                    Amount paid . . .

commission for subscribing or                          payable

agreeing to subscribe or procuring

or agreeing to procure subscriptions

for any shares or debentures in the

company; or

Rate of the commission…………                       Rate per cent………..

The number of shares, if any, which persons  have agreed  to  subscribe for a commission. If it is proposed to acquire any business, the amount, as certified by the persons by whom the accounts of the business have been audited, of the net profits of the business in respect of each of the five years immediately preceding the date of this statement, provided that in the case of a business which has been carried on for less than five years and the accounts of which have only been made up in respect of four years, three years, two  years or one year, the above requirements shall have effect as if references to four years, three years, two years or one year, as the case may be, were substituted for references to five years, and in any such case the statement shall say how long the business to be acquired has been carried on. Where the financial year with respect to which the accounts of the business have been made up is greater or less than a year, references to five years, four years, three years, two years, and one year in this paragraph shall have effect as if references to such number of financial years as in the aggregate, cover a period of not less than five years, four years, three years, two years or one year, as the case may be, were substituted for references to three years,  two  years  and  one year respectively.

Estimated amount of preliminary Rs……………. expenses.

By whom those expenses have been paid or are payable.

Amount paid or intended to be paid             Name of promoter.

to any promoter.                                       Amount Rs.

Consideration for the payment                    Consideration:

Any other benefit given or intended             Name of promoter:

to be given to any promoter.                       Nature and value of benefit:

Consideration for the benefit.                      Consideration:

Dates of, parties to, and general nature of –

(a)        contract  appointing or fixing the remuneration of directors, managing director, managing agent, secretaries   and  treasurers,  or manager; and

(b)        every other material  contract (other  than (i) contracts entered into in the ordinary course of the business intended to be carried on by the company or (ii) entered into more than  two  years  before the delivery of this statement).

Time  and  place at which  (1)  the contracts or copies thereof or (2)

(i) in the case of a contract not reduced into writing, a memorandum giving full particulars  thereof, and (ii) in the case of a contract wholly or partly in a language other than  English, a copy  of  a translation thereof in English or embodying a translation in English of the parts in the other language, as the case may be, being a translation certified in the prescribed  manner to be a correct translation, may be inspected.

Names and addresses of the auditors of the company (if any).

Full particulars of the nature and extent of the interest of every director, managing director, managing agent, secretaries and treasurers or manager in the promotion of or  in the property proposed to be acquired by the company, or where the interest of such a  director consists  in being a partner in a firm, the nature and extent of the interest of the firm, with a statement of all sums paid or agreed  to be  paid to him or to the  firm  in cash  or shares, or  otherwise,  by any person either to induce him  to become, or to qualify him  as, a director, or otherwise for services rendered  by him or by the firm in connection  with the  promotion  or formation of the company.

(Signatures  of the persons  above-

named  as  directors  or   proposed         ———————————————————-

directors,   or  of  their   agents               ———————————————————-

authorized in writing.)                             ———————————————————-

Date

REPORTS TO BE SET OUT

PART II

1.         Where it is proposed to acquire a business, a report made by accountants (who shall be named in the statement) upon –

(a)        the profits or losses of the business in respect of each of the five  financial years immediately preceding the delivery of the statement to the Registrar; and

(b)        the  assets and liabilities of the business as at the last date to which the accounts of the business were made up.

2.         (1)        Where it is proposed to acquire  shares in a body corporate which by reason of the acquisition or anything to be done in consequence thereof or in  connection  therewith will become a subsidiary of the company, a report made by accountants (who shall be named in the statement) with respect to the profits and  losses  and assets and liabilities of the other body corporate in accordance with sub-clause (2) or (3)  of this clause, as the case may require, indicating how the profits or losses of the other body corporate dealt with by the report would, in respect of the shares to be acquired, have concerned members of the company, and what allowance would have fallen to be made, in relation to assets and  liabilities so dealt with, for holders of other shares, if the company had at all  material times held the shares to be acquired.

(2)        If the other body corporate has no subsidiaries, the  report referred to in sub-clause (1) shall –

(a)        so far as regards profits and losses, deal with the profits or losses of the body corporate in respect of each of the five financial years immediately preceding the  delivery of the statement to the Registrar; and

(b)        so far as regards assets and liabilities, deal with the assets and liabilities of the body corporate as at the last date to which the accounts of the body corporate were made up.

(3)        If the other body corporate has subsidiaries, the report referred to in sub-clause (1) shall –

(a)        so far as regards profits and losses, deal separately with the other body corporate profits or losses as  provided by sub-clause (2) and in addition deal either –

(i)         as  a whole with the combined profits or losses of  its subsidiaries so far as they concern members of the other body corporate; or

(ii)         individually with  the  profits or losses of each subsidiary, so far as they concern members of the other  body corporate;

or, instead of dealing separately with the other body corporate’s profits  or  losses, deal as a  whole  with the profits or losses of the other body corporate and, so far  as they concern members of the other body corporate,  with  the combined profits or losses of its subsidiaries; and

(b)        so far as regards assets and liabilities,  deal separately with the  other body corporate’s assets and liabilities  as provided by sub-clause (2) and, in addition, deal either –

(i)         as a whole with the combined assets and liabilities of its subsidiaries, with or without the other body  corporate’s assets and liabilities; or

(ii)         individually with the assets and liabilities of each subsidiary; and shall indicate, as respects the assets and liabilities of the subsidiaries, the allowance to be made for persons other than members of the company.

PROVISIONS APPLYING TO PARTS I AND II OF THIS SCHEDULE

PART III

3.         (1)        In  this Schedule, the expression “vendor” includes a vendor as defined in Part III of Schedule II.

(2)        Clause 31 of Schedule II shall apply to the interpretation of Part II of this Schedule as it applies to the  interpretation  of Part II of Schedule II.

4.         If in the case of a business which has been carried on, or of a body corporate which has been carrying on business, for less than five financial years, the accounts of the business or body corporate have only been made up in respect of four such  years,  three  such years, two such years or one such year, Part II of this Schedule shall have effect as if references to four financial years, three  financial years, two financial years or one financial year, as the case may be, were substituted for references to five financial years.

5.         Any report required by Part II of this Schedule shall either –

(a)        indicate by way of note any adjustments as respects the figures of any profits or losses or assets  and  liabilities dealt with  by  the report which appear to the  person  making  the report necessary; or

(b)        make those adjustments and indicate that adjustments have been made.

6.         Any report by accountants required by Part II of this Schedule –

(a)        shall be made by accountants qualified under this Act for appointment as auditors of a company; and

(b)       shall not be made by any accountant who is an officer or servant, or a partner or in the employment of an officer  or servant,  of  the company or of the company’s  subsidiary or holding  company or of a subsidiary of the company’s  holding company.

For  the purposes of this clause, the expression “officer”  shall include a proposed director but not an auditor.

FORM OF STATEMENT AND PARTICULARS TO BE CONTAINED THEREIN

SCHEDULE IV

[See section 44(2)(b)]

FORM OF STATEMENT IN LIEU OF PROSPECTUS TO BE DELIVERED TO REGISTRAR BY A PRIVATE COMPANY ON BECOMING A PUBLIC COMPANY AND REPORTS TO BE SET OUT THEREIN

PART I

FORM OF STATEMENT AND PARTICULARS TO BE CONTAINED THEREIN

THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956

Statement in lieu of Prospectus delivered for registration by [Insert the name of the company.]

Pursuant to clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 44 of the Companies Act, 1956.

Delivered for registration by

The nominal share capital of the  Rs………… company.

Divided into…                           shares of Rs…each.

“      ” Rs…each.

“     ” Rs…each.

Amount (if any) of above capital shares of Rs….each. which consists of redeemable

preference share.

The earliest date on which the company has power to redeem these shares.

Names, addresses, descriptions and occupations of –

(a)        directors or proposed directors;

(b)        managing director or  proposed managing director;

(c)        managing agent or proposed managing agent;

(d)        Secretaries and treasurers or proposed secretaries and treasures;

(e)        manager or proposed manager.

Any  provision in the  articles of the company, or in any contract irrespective  of the time  when it was entered  into, as to the appointment of and remuneration payable to the persons referred to in (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) above.

Amount of shares issued  Shares  .  .  .  ………..Shares.

Amount  of commission paid or payable in connection therewith.

Amount of discount, if any, allowed on the issue of any shares, or so much thereof as has not been written off at the date of the statement.

Unless more than two years have lapsed since the date on which the company  was entitled  to commence business –

Amount of preliminary expenses                          Rs………….

By whom those expenses have been

paid or are payable.

Amount paid or intended to be paid                     Name of promoter:

to any promoter.                                               Amount Rs …….

Consideration for the payment.                            Consideration:

Any other benefit given or intended                      Name of promoter:

to be given to any promoter.                                Nature and value of benefit:

Consideration for the benefit.                               Consideration:

If the share capital of the company

is divided into different classes of

shares, the right of voting at

meetings of the company conferred by,

and the rights in respect of capital

and dividends attached to, the

several classes  of shares respectively.

Number and amount of shares and                      1. shares of Rs….fully paid.

debentures issued within the two

years preceding the date of this                           2.   …shares    upon which Rs….

statement as fully or partly paid up                            per share credited as paid.

otherwise than for cash or agreed

to be so issued at the date of this

statement.

Consideration for the issue of those                     3.   debentures. for Rs….. each.

shares or debentures

4.   Consideration:

Number, description and amount of                      1 shares of Rs….. and debentures

any shares or debentures which                          of Rs……

any person has or is entitled to be given an option to subscribe for, or to acquire from, a person to whom they have been allotted or agreed

to be allotted with a view to his offering them for sale.

Period during which the option                                   2.   Until

is exercisable.

Price to be paid for shares                                        3.

or debentures subscribed for or acquired under the option.

Consideration for the option                                       4.   Consideration: or right to option.

Persons to whom the option or the                            5.   Names and addresses: right  to  option was given or, if given to existing shareholders or debenture holders as such, the relevant shares or debentures. Names, addresses, descriptions  and occupations of vendors of  property

(1)purchased or—-acquired by the company within  the   two   years preceding   the   date   of    this statement or (2) agreed or proposed to be purchased or acquired by  the company, except where the  contract for its purchase or acquisition was entered into in the ordinary course of business and there is no connection between the  transaction  and the company ceasing to be a private company or where the amount of  the purchase  money  is  not  material.

Amount  (in cash, shares or  debentures) paid  or  payable  to  each separate vendor.

Amount paid or payable in cash,                               Total purchase price Rs……

shares  or  debentures for each

such property, specifying the                                    Cash                 Rs….

amount paid or payable for good                                Shares              Rs. …

will.                                                                         Debentures       Rs….

Goodwill             Rs….

Short  particulars of every  trans-action   relating  to   each   such property which was completed within the two  preceding years and in which any  vendor to the company or any person  who is, or was at the  time thereof,  a promoter,  director  or proposed  director of  the  company

had any interest direct or indirect.

Amount (if any) paid or payable as                            Amount paid………..

commission for subscribing or                                  Amount payable …….

agreeing to subscribe or procuring                            Rate per cent……… or  agreeing to procure subscriptions for any shares or debentures in the company; or rate of the commission.

The number of shares, if any, which persons have agreed to subscribe for a commission.

If  it is proposed to  acquire  any business, the amount, as certified by the persons by whom the accounts of the business have been audited, of the net profits of the business in respect of each of the five years immediately  preceding   the date of this  statement,  provided that  in  the case of a  business which has been carried on for  less than five years, and the  accounts of which have only been made up in respect of four years, three years, two  years or one year,  the  above requirements  shall have effect as if references to four years,  three years,  two years or one  year, as the  case may be, were  substituted for  references to five years,  and in  any  such case,  the statement shall say how long the business  to be  acquired has been  carried  on. Where the financial year with respect to which the  accounts of the business have been  made  up is greater or  less than  a  year, references  to  five years, four years, three years, two years  and one year in this  paragraph shall have effect  as if references   to  such number of financial years as, in the aggregate, cover a period of  not less  than five years, four  years, three years, two years or one year, as the case may be, were substituted for references to three years,  two  years  and  one  year respectively.

Dates  of, parties to, and  general nature of –

(a)        Contract appointing or fixing the remuneration of directors, managing director, managing  agent, secretaries and treasurers or manager; and

(b)        every other material  contract other  than (i)  contracts  entered into in the ordinary course of the business intended to be carried on by the company or (ii) entered into more than  two  years  before  the delivery of this statement.

Time  and  place at which  (1) the contracts  or copies thereof; or (2) (i) in the case of a  contract not reduced into writing, a memorandum giving full  particulars thereof, and (ii) in the case of a contract  wholly  or partly in a language other than English, a copy of  translation thereof in English or   embodying  a  translation   in English of the parts in the other language, as the case may be,  being a translation  certified in  the prescribed manner to  be a correct translation, may be inspected.

Names and addresses of the auditors of the company.

Full particulars of the nature and extent of the interest of every director, managing director, managing agent, secretaries and treasurers or manager,  in   any property purchased or acquired by the company within the two years preceding   the date of this statement or proposed to be purchased or acquired   by the company or, where the interest of such a director consists in being a partner in a firm, the nature and extent of the interest of the firm, with a statement of all sums  paid or agreed to be paid to him or  to the  firm  in cash  or  shares,  or otherwise, by any person either to induce him to become or to qualify him as, a director,  or  otherwise for services rendered or to be rendered to the company by him or by the firm.

Rates  of  the dividends (if any) paid  by the company in respect  of each class of shares in the company in each of the five financial years immediately preceding the date of this statement or since the incorporation of the company, whichever period is shorter.

Particulars  of the cases in which no dividends have been paid in respect of any class of shares in  any of these years.

—————————————————————————–

(Signatures  of the persons  above named as directors or proposed

directors or of their agents authorized in writing.)

Date………………….

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