Companies Act with Rules Edition 2025

This book is the most authentic and comprehensive resource on the Companies Act 2013. It covers the amended, updated & annotated text of the following:

• Companies Act, 2013 [as amended up to date ] with annotations
• Provisions of other Acts referred to in the Companies Act, 2013
• Words & Phrases Judicially Noticed
• 55+ Rules framed thereunder with annotations
• Circulars & Notifications issued under the Companies Act, 2013
• Secretarial Standards

The book offers a unique and detailed presentation of the Companies Act and corresponding Rules, Circulars, and Notifications. The annotations under each Section provide:

• Relevant Rules framed under the corresponding Section
• Reference to relevant Forms prescribed
• Exemptions available to:
• Private Companies
• Government Companies
• Nidhis
• Charitable Companies (Section 8 Companies)
• Private Companies operating from IFSCs in SEZs licensed by RBI, SEBI, or IRDA
• Unlisted Public Companies in IFSCs
• Financial Products/Services/Institutions in IFSCs
• Gist of relevant Circulars & Notifications
• Date of enforcement of provisions
• Corresponding provisions under Companies Act, 1956
• Judicially noticed Words & Phrases
• Allied laws referred to in the provision
• References to relevant SEBI Rules, Secretarial Standards (SS-1 to SS-4), and Table F of Schedule I

The Present Publication is the 23^rd Edition | 2025 and updated upto 25^th November 2024. This book is edited by Taxmann’s Editorial Board, with the following noteworthy features:

• [Taxmann’s series of Bestseller Books] on Company Laws
• [Follows the Six-Sigma Approach] to achieve the benchmark of ‘zero error.’

The contents of the book are as follows:

• List of Rules/Regulations
• Alphabetical list of Rules/Regulations
• Exemptions:
• Private Companies
• Section 8 Companies
• Nidhis
• Government Companies
• Private Company that is licensed to operate by RBI, SEBI, and IRDA from the International Financial Services Centre located in an approved multi-services SEZ set-up under the SEZ Act
• Unlisted public company that is licensed to operate by RBI, SEBI, and IRDA from the International Financial Services Centre located in an approved multi-services SEZ set-up under the SEZ Act
• Financial Products, Financial Services, or Financial Institutions in an International Financial Services Centre (IFSC)

List of Circulars & Notifications

Companies Act, 2013 with Rules

• Arrangement of Sections
• Annotated text of the Companies Act, 2013 as amended up to date
• Appendix I: Provisions of other Acts referred to in Companies Act, 2013
• Appendix II: Words & Phrases Judicially Noticed
• Subject Index

Rules framed under the Companies Act, 2013

• Key to Prescribed Forms
• Companies (Specification of Definitions Details) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Prospectus and Allotment of Securities) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Issue of Global Depository Receipts) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Share Capital and Debentures) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Acceptance of Deposits) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Registration of Charges) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Management and Administration) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Declaration and Payment of Dividend) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Filing of Documents and Forms in Extensible Business Reporting Language) Rules, 2015
• Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Appointment and Qualification of Directors) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Meetings of Board and its Powers) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Inspection, Investigation, and Inquiry) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Authorised to Register) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Registration of Foreign Companies) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Registration Offices and Fees) Rules, 2014
• Nidhi Rules, 2014
• National Company Law Tribunal Rules, 2016
• National Company Law Appellate Tribunal Rules, 2016
• National Company Law Tribunal (Salary, Allowances and Other Terms and Conditions of Service of President and Other Members) Rules, 2015
• National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (Salaries and Allowances and Other Terms and Conditions of Service of the Chairperson and Other Members) Rules, 2015
• Companies (Adjudication of Penalties) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Miscellaneous) Rules, 2014
• Companies (Cost Records and Audit) Rules, 2014
• Depository Receipts Scheme, 2014
• Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015
• Companies (Accounting Standards) Rules, 2021
• Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (Appointment of Chairperson and Members, Holding of Meetings and Provision for Offices and Officers) Rules, 2016
• Companies (Compromises, Arrangements, and Amalgamations) Rules, 2016
• Companies (Mediation and Conciliation) Rules, 2016
• Companies (Removal of Names of Companies from the Register of Companies) Rules, 2016
• Companies (Transfer of Pending Proceedings) Rules, 2016
• Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (Accounting, Audit, Transfer and Refund) Rules, 2016
• National Company Law Tribunal (Procedure for Reduction of Share Capital of Company) Rules, 2016
• Tribunal Reforms Act, 2021
• Conditions of Service of Chairperson and Members of Tribunals, Appellate Tribunals, and other Authorities
• Tribunal (Conditions of Service) Rules, 2021
• Companies (Arrests in Connection with Investigation by Serious Fraud Investigation Office) Rules, 2017
• Companies (Registered Valuers and Valuation) Rules, 2017
• Companies (Restriction on Number of Layers) Rules, 2017
• Condonation of Delay Scheme, 2018
• National Financial Reporting Authority (Manner of Appointment and other Terms and Conditions of Service of Chairperson and Members) Rules, 2018
• Companies (Significant Beneficial Owners) Rules, 2018
• Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (Form of Annual Statement of Accounts) Rules, 2018
• Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (Form and Time of Preparation of Annual Report) Rules, 2018
• Specified Companies (Furnishing of Information about Payment to Micro and Small Enterprise Suppliers) Order, 2019
• National Financial Reporting Authority Rules, 2018
• National Financial Reporting Authority (Meeting for Transaction of Business) Rules, 2019
• National Financial Reporting Authority (Recruitment, Salary, Allowances and Other Terms and Conditions of Service of Secretary, Officers and Other Employees of Authority) Rules, 2019
• Companies (Creation and Maintenance of Data Bank of Independent Directors) Rules, 2019
• Companies (Winding-up) Rules, 2020
• Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020
• National Company Law Tribunal and National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (Procedure for Investigation of Misbehaviour or Incapacity of Chairperson, President and Other Members) Rules, 2020
• Producer Companies Rules, 2021
• National Financial Reporting Authority appointment of Part-time Member Rules, 2022

Circulars & Notifications

• Circulars & Notifications issued under the Companies Act, 2013