Board meetings through video conferencing/ other audio visual means extension till 30.06.2021

MCA extends time for holding Board meetings through video conferencing/ other audio visual means till 30.06.2021

Board meetings through video conferencing Extension

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS

Notification

New Delhi , the 30th December, 2020

G.S.R. ………… (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 173, 177, 178 and section 186 read with section 469 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Companies (Meetings of Board and its Powers) Rules, 2014,  namely:-

1. (1) These rules may be called the Companies (Meetings  of  Board and its Powers) Fourth Amendment  Rules, 2020.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Companies (Meetings of Board and its Powers) Rules, 2014, in rule 4, in sub-rule (2), for the figures, letters and word “31st December, 2020”, the figures, letters and word “30th June, 2021” shall be substituted.

[F. No . 1/32/2013-CL-V-Part]

(Manoj Pandey)
Joint Secretary to the Government of India

Note : The principal rules were published in the  Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II , Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide notification number G.S.R. 240(E), dated the 31st March, 2014 and subsequently amended as follows:-

1. G.S.R. 398 (E) , dated the 12th June, 2014 ;
2. G.S. 590 (E), dated the 14th August, 2014; 
3. S.R. 206 (E), dated the 18th March, 2015; 
4. S.R. 971(E), dated the 14th December, 2015;
5. G.S. 309 (E), dated the 30th March , 2017;
6. G.R. 880 (E), dated the 13th July, 2017;
7. S.R. 429 (E), dated the 7th May, 2018;
8. S.R. 777 (E), dated the 11th October, 2019;
9. G.R. 857 (E), dated the 18th November , 2019;
10. S.R. 186 (E) , dated the 19th March, 2020;
11. S.R. 395 (E), dated the 23rd June, 2020 ; and
12. S.R. 590 (E), dated the 28th September, 2020

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