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Section 157: Company to inform Director Identification Number to Registrar.

The Companies Act, 2013Central Act · Act 18 of 2013

(1) Every company shall, within fifteen days of the receipt of intimation under section 156, furnish the Director Identification Number of all its directors to the Registrar or any other officer or authority as may be specified by the Central Government with such fees as may be prescribed or with such additional fees as may be prescribed *** and every such intimation shall be furnished in such form and manner as may be prescribed.

[(2) If any company fails to furnish the Director Identification Number under sub-section (1), such company shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five thousand rupees and in case of continuing failure, with a further penalty of one hundred rupees for each day after the first during which such failure continues, subject to a maximum of one lakh rupees, and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a penalty of not less than twenty-five thousand rupees and in case of continuing failure, with a further penalty of one hundred rupees for each day after the first during which such failure continues, subject to a maximum of one lakh rupees.]

Where this provision sits

ActThe Companies Act, 2013
Section157
Marginal noteCompany to inform Director Identification Number to Registrar.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • omitted. . The words and figures "within the time specified under section 403" omitted by s. 49, ibid. (w.e.f. 7-5-2018).
  • substituted, Act 22 of 2019. . Subs. by Act 22 of 2019, s. 24, for sub-section (2) (w.e.f. 2-11-2018).

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