Cos 450 — Punishment where no specific penalty or punishment is provided

Companies Act, 2013

Statutory text

If  a  company  or  any officer of a company or any other person contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made

2. The proviso ins. by s. 92, ibid. (w.e.f. 9-2-2018).

thereunder,  or  any  condition,  limitation  or  restriction  subject  to  which  any  approval,  sanction,  consent, confirmation,  recognition,  direction  or  exemption  in  relation  to  any  matter  has  been  accorded,  given  or granted, and for which no penalty or punishment is provided elsewhere in this Act, the company and every officer of the company who is in default or such other person shall be

[liable to a penalty of ten thousand rupees, and in case of continuing contravention, with a further penalty of on thousand rupees for each day after the first during which the contravention continue, subject to a maximum of two lakh rupees in case of a company and fifty thousand rupees in case of an officer who is in default or any other person].

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