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The Companies Act, 2013

Chapter IV - Share Capital And Debenture (43-72)

Section 47- Voting rights.

[Notification Date: 26.03.2014; Effective from:01.04.2014]

Section 47 shall not apply to Specified IFSC public company, where memorandum of association or articles of association of such company provides for it-  Notification G.S.R. 08(E) dated 04.01.2017


Section 47- Voting rights. [Corresponds to Section 87 of the Companies Act,1956];

 (1) Subject to the provisions of section 43 and  sub-section (2) of section 50,—

(a) every member of a company limited by shares and holding equity share capital therein, shall have a right to vote on every resolution placed before the company; and

(b) his voting right on a poll shall be in proportion to his share in the paid-up equity share capital of the company.


Clause (b) shall apply to Nidhi company, subject to the modification that no member shall exercise voting rights on poll in excess of five per cent, of total voting rights of equity shareholders, vide Notification F. No. 2 /11/2014-CL.V dated 05.06.2015.


(2) Every member of a company limited by shares and holding any preference share capital therein shall, in respect of such capital, have a right to vote only on resolutions placed before the company which directly affect the rights attached to his preference shares and, any resolution for the winding up of the company or for the repayment or reduction of its equity or preference share capital and his voting right on a poll shall be in proportion to his share in the paid-up preference share capital of the company:

Provided that the proportion of the voting rights of equity shareholders to the voting rights of the preference shareholders shall be in the same proportion as the paid-up capital in respect of the equity shares bears to the paid-up capital in respect of the preference shares:

Provided further that where the dividend in respect of a class of preference shares has not been paid for a period of two years or more, such class of preference shareholders shall have a right to vote on all the resolutions placed before the company.


Section 47 shall not apply to a private company, where memorandum or articles of association of the private company so provides vide Notification F No 1/ 1/2014- CL.V dated 05.06.2015.