Cos 172 — Penalty

Companies Act, 2013

Statutory text

[172. Penalty.— If a company is in default in complying with any of the provisions of this Chapter and for which no specific penalty or punishment is provided therein, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a penalty of fifty thousand rupees, and in case of continuing failure,  with  a  further  penalty  of  five  hundred  rupees  for  each  day  during  which  such  failure  continues, subject to a maximum of three lakh rupees in case of a company and one lakh rupees in case of an officer who is in default.]

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