Time Limit For Registration of Charge With ROC

     

Time Limit For Registration of Charge With ROC

A charge created by a company is required to be registered with the Registrar within thirty days of its creation in such form and on payment of such fees as may be prescribed. According to Companies (Registration of Charges) Rules, 2014 e-forms prescribed for the purpose of creating or modifying the charge is Form No.CHG-1 (for other than Debentures) or Form No.CHG-9 (for debentures including rectification).

Condonation of delay by Registrar: The Registrar may on an application by the company allow registration of charge within three hundred days of creation or modification of charge on payment of an additional fee. The Registrar may, on being satisfied that the company had sufficient cause for not filing the particulars and instrument of charge, if any, within a period of thirty days of the date of creation of the charge, allow the registration of the same after thirty days but within a period of three hundred days of the date of such creation of charge or modification of charge on payment of an additional fee. The application for delay shall be made in Form No.CHG-1 and supported by a declaration from the company signed by its secretary or director that such belated filing shall not adversely affect the rights of any other intervening creditors of the company.

Condonation of delay by the Central Government: If the company fails to register the charge even within this period of three hundred days, it may seek an extension of time in accordance with Section 87 from the Central Government. The same has been discussed later in this chapter.

Application for registration of charge by the charge-holder : According to Section 78 where a company fails to register the charge within the period specified above, the person in whose favour the charge is created may apply to the Registrar for registration of the charge alongwith the instrument created for the charge in Form No.CHG-1 or Form No.CHG-9, as the case may be, duly signed along with the fee. The registrar may, on such an application, give notice to the company about such application. The company may either itself register the charge or shows sufficient cause why such charge should not be registered. On failure on part of the company, the Registrar may allow registration of such charge within fourteen days after giving notice to the company. shall allow such registration.

Where registration is affected on application of the person in whose favour the charge is created, that person shall be entitled to recover from the company, the amount of any fee or additional fees paid by him to the Registrar for the purpose of registration of charge.

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