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The Companies Act, 2013

Chapter XXIV - Registration Offices And Fees (396 - 404)

Section 403- Fee for filing, etc.

[Notification Date: 26.03.2014; Effective from: 01.04.2014]

Section 403- Fee for filing, etc. [Corresponds to Section 611 of the Companies Act, 1956]; [Relevant Rule: 12,13 of The Companies (Registration Offices and Fees) Rules, 2014]

 (1) Any document, required to be submitted, filed, registered or recorded, or any fact or information required or authorised to be registered under this Act, shall be submitted, filed, registered or recorded within the time specified in the relevant provision on payment of such fee as may be prescribed - [Rule 12] :

Provided that any document, fact or information may be submitted, filed, registered or recorded, after the time specified in relevant provision for such submission, filing, registering or recording, within a period of two hundred and seventy days from the date by which it should have been submitted, filed, registered or recorded, as the case may be, on payment of such additional fee as may be prescribed:

Provided further that any such document, fact or information may, without prejudice to any other legal action or liability under the Act, be also submitted, filed, registered or recorded, after the time specified in first proviso on payment of fee and additional fee specified under this section.

(2) Where a company fails or commits any default to submit, file, register or record any document, fact or information under sub-section (1) before the expiry of the period specified in the first proviso to that sub-section with additional fee, the company and the officers of the company who are in default, shall, without prejudice to the liability for payment of fee and additional fee, be liable for the penalty or punishment provided under this Act for such failure or default.


In respect of Nidhi, the provisions of section 403 shall apply with the modification that the filing fees in respect of every return of allotment under sub-section (9) of section 42 shall be calculated at the rate of one rupee for every one hundred rupees or parts thereof on the face value of the shares included in the return but shall not exceed the amount of normal filing fee payable;- Notification F. No. 2 /11/2014-CL.V dated 05.06.2015.