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Section 450: Punishment where no specific penalty or punishment is provided.

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

If a company or any officer of a company or any other person contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, or any condition, limitation or restriction subject to which any approval, sanction, consent, confirmation, recognition, direction or exemption in relation to any matter has been accorded, given or granted, and for which no penalty or punishment is provided elsewhere in this Act, the company and every officer of the company who is in default or such other person shall be [liable to a penalty of ten thousand rupees, and in case of continuing contravention, with a further penalty of on thousand rupees for each day after the first during which the contravention continue, subject to a maximum of two lakh rupees in case of a company and fifty thousand rupees in case of an officer who is in default or any other person].

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ActThe Companies Act, 2013
Section450
Marginal notePunishment where no specific penalty or punishment is provided.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it5

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  • substituted, Act 29 of 2020. . Subs. by Act 29 of 2020, s. 63, for certain words (w.e.f. 21-12-2020).

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