Companies Act

Instruction Kit for ACTIVE eForm INC-22. MCA releases help for Successful Submission of Form

Instruction Kit for ACTIVE eForm INC-22. MCA releases Form with help/important Points for Successful Submission of the e-Form

The notice of change of the situation of the registered office and verification thereof shall be filed in Form No. INC-22 along with the fee and shall be attached to said Form, the similar documents and manner of verification as are prescribed for verification of Registered office on incorporation as above in terms of sub-section (2) of section 12.

Purpose of the eForm

The company is required to furnish to the Registrar verification of its registered office in eForm INC-22 within a period of thirty days from the date of its incorporation.

And any change in situation of the registered office thereafter, the company is required to notify to Registrar in eForm INC-22 within fifteen days of such change.

Instructions to fill the eForm

Download Instruction Kit for eForm INC – 22 Click Here >>

In case of existing company

This form can be filed by an existing company within 30 days of its incorporation in case registered address is not mentioned in the incorporation form.

  • In case of change in registered office of a company within local limits of city, town or village or outside local limits of city, town or village but within same state and with same RoC, then the company is required to file eForm MGT-14 (if applicable) and eForm INC-22.
  • In case the registered office of the company is shifted from the jurisdiction of one RoC office to another RoC office within the same state or otherwise then the company is required to file both eForm INC-23 for RD’s approval and eForm INC-28 (old Form 21)for notice of RD’s approval order and eForm INC-22 only once.

Old RoC office shall process the eForm and forward the same to the new RoC office for registration. Please note that approval of such eForm INC-22 shall not be allowed in case there is any other eForm(s) pending for payment of fee or is under processing in respect of the company.

Company shall be required to obtain the changed CIN and the Certificate for change of registered address from the RoC office, where the company is shifting (that is from the office of new RoC).

Important Points for Successful Submission

Processing Type
eForm INC-22 will be processed by the office of Registrar of Companies.

SRN Generation
On successful submission of the eForm INC-22, SRN will be generated and shown to the user which will be used for future correspondence with MCA.

Challan Generation
On successful submission of the eForm INC-22, Challan will be generated depicting the details of the fees paid by the user to the Ministry. It is the acknowledgement to the user that the eForm has been filed.

Email
When an eForm is approved/rejected by the authority concerned, an acknowledgement of approval/rejection letter along with related documents if there is any is sent to the user in the form of an email to the email id of the company.

Certificates
In case of change in registered office from one state to another, a new CIN shall be allocated to the company as per the new state code and a system generated certificate of shifting of registered office from one state to another state is issued by the new Registrar. A certificate of shifting of registered office from jurisdiction of one RoC to the other RoC within a State is also issued by new Registrar and sent to the user. These certificates are sent as an attachment to the email, after approval is granted.

Additional Fee

Period of delays  
Up to 30 days 2 times of normal fees
More than 30 days and up to 60 days 4 times of normal fees
More than 60 days and up to 90 days 6 times of normal fees
More than 90 days and up to 180 days 12 times of normal fees

In case of an IFSC company, the additional fee shall be applicable only after the expiry of 60 days of the event date.

However, in case of form filing after 60 days, the logic for delay days’ calculation for computing the additional fee shall remain same as in case of other than IFSC company i.e. due date shall be considered as (Event Date + 29) even for an IFSC company.

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