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The Companies Act, 1956

Incorporation of Company and Matters Incidental Thereto (11 to 54)

Section 13 Requirements with respect to memorandums

Section 13 Requirements with respect to memorandums 

(1) The memorandum of every company shall state -

(a)     the name of the company with "Limited" as the last word of the name in the case of a public limited company, and with "Private Limited" as the last words of the name in the case of a private limited company;

(b)     the State in which the registered office of the company is to be situate;

(c)    in the case of a company in existence immediately before the commencement of the Companies (Amendment) Act, 1965, the objects of the company;

(d)     in the case of a company formed after such commencement,-

(i)      the main objects of the company to be pursued by the company on its incorporation and objects incidental or ancillary to the attainment of the main objects;

(ii)     other objects of the company not included in sub-clause (i); and

(e)     in the case of companies (other than trading corporations), with objects not confined to one State, the States to whose territories the objects extend.

(2) The memorandum of a company limited by shares or by guarantee shall also state that the liability of its members is limited.

(3) The memorandum of a company limited by guarantee shall also state that each member undertakes to contribute to the assets of the company in the event of its being wound up while he is a member or within one year after he ceases to be a member, for payment of the debts and liabilities of the company, or of such debts and liabilities of the company as may have been contracted before he ceases to be a member, as the case may be, and of the costs, charges and expenses of winding up, and for adjustment of the rights of the contributories among themselves, such amount as may be required, not exceeding a specified amount.

(4) In the case of a company having a share capital-

(a) unless the company is an unlimited company, the memorandum shall also state the amount of share capital with which the company is to be registered and the division thereof into shares of a fixed amount;

(b) no subscriber of the memorandum shall take less than one share; and

(c)  each subscriber of the memorandum shall write opposite to his name the number of shares he takes.