THE COMPANIES ACT, 2013
AN ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
XYZ IT LABS PRIVATE LIMITED.
PRELIMINaRY
1. Subject as hereinafter provided the Regulations contained in Table 'A' in the First Schedule shall apply to the Company except in so far as otherwise expressly incorporated herein below.
2. The regulations for the management of the company and for the observance thereof by the members and their representatives shall, subject as aforesaid and to any exercise of statutory powers of the company in reference to repeal or alteration of or addition to its regulations by Special Resolution as prescribed or permitted by the Act be such as are continued in these Articles.
Interpretation
3. (1) In these Regulations:-
(a) " The Company shall mean the above named Company.
(b) "Office" means the Registered Office of the Company.
(c) "Act" means the Companies Act , 2013 and any statutory modification thereof.
(d) "Seal" means the Common Seal of the Company.
(e) "Directors" means the Directors of the Company and includes persons occupying the position of the Directors by whatever names called.
(2) Unless the context otherwise requires words or expressions contained in these Articles shall be the same meaning as in the Act, or any statutory modification thereof in force at the date at which these Articles become binding on the Company.
Private Company
4. The Company is a Private Company within the meaning of Section 2(68) of the Companies Act, 2013 and accordingly:-
(i) restricts the right to transfer its shares;
(ii) Except in case of one Person Company, limits the number of its members to two hundred:
Provide that where two or more persons hold one or more shares in a company jointly, they shall, for the purposes of this clause, be treated as a single member:
Provided further that-
(a) persons who are in the employment of the company; and
(b) persons who, having been formerly in the employment of the company, were members of the company while in the employment and have continued to be members after the employment ceased, shall not be included in the number of members; and
(iii) Prohibits any invitation to the public to subscribe for any securities of the company;
Share capital
5. (a) The Authorised Share Capital of the Company shall be such amounts and be divided into such shares as may, from time to time, be provided in Clause V of the Memorandum of Association with power to increase or reduce the capital in accordance with the Company’s regulations and legislative provisions for the time being in force in that behalf with the powers to divide the share capital, whether original increased or decreased into several classes and attach thereto respectively such ordinary, preferential or special rights and conditions in such a manner as may for the time being be provided by the Regulations of the Company and allowed by law.
(b) The minimum paid up Capital of the Company shall be Rs.1,00,000/-(Rupees One lakh).
6. The business of the Company may be commenced soon after the incorporation of the Company as and when the Directors shall think fit notwithstanding that part of the shares have been allotted.
7.. The shares shall be under the discretionary control of the Directors who may allot or otherwise dispose of the same, to such person at such time and on such term & conditions as they may in their absolute discretion think fit & proper.
7. Shares may be registered in the name of any minor through a guardian only as fully paid shares.
8. The Directors may allot and issue shares in the Capital of the Company as partly or fully paid up in consideration of any property sold or goods transferred or machinery supplied or for services rendered to the Company in the conduct of its business.
9. Subject to the provisions of companies Act 2013 and section 69 of the Companies Act, 2013 and any statutory amendments or reenactments thereof and compliance of the provisions thereof by the Company, the Company is authorised to purchase its own shares or other specified securities.
10. The Company in general meeting may decide to issue fully paid up bonus share to the members if so recommended by the Board of Directors.
11. The Share Certificate to the Share registered in the name of two or more person shall be delivered to first named person in the register and this shall be a sufficient delivery to all such holders.
12. Each fully paid up share shall carry one vote.
13. Subject to the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013, the Company may issue preference shares, which are or at the option of the Company are liable to be redeemed and/or converted into equity share capital, on such terms and in such manner and time, as the resolution authorising such issue shall prescribe.
INCREASE AND REDUCTION OF CAPITAL
14. The Company in General Meeting may, from time to time, by ordinary resolution increase the share capital of the Company by the creation of new shares by such sum, to be divided into shares of such amount as may be deemed expedient.
15. Subject to any special rights or privileges for the time being attached to any shares in the capital of the Company when issued, the new shares may be issued upon such terms and conditions and with such preferential, qualified or such rights and privileges or conditions there to as general meeting resolving upon the creation thereof shall direct. If no direction be given, the Board shall determine in particular the manner in which such shares may be issued with a preferential or qualified right to dividends and in the distribution of assets of the Company.
16. Before the issue of any new shares, the Company in General Meeting may make provisions as to the allotment and issue of the new shares and in particular may determine to whom the shares be offered in the first instance and whether at par or premium or at a discount. In case no such provision is made by the Company in General Meeting, the new shares may be dealt with according to the provisions of these Articles.
17. Subject to the provisions of Companies Act 2013, the Company may, from time to time in any manner, by special resolution and subject to any consent required under sections of the Companies Act 2013, reduce:
(a) its share capital,
(b) any capital redemption reserve account; or
(c) any share premium account
18. Subject to provisions of Companies Act 2013, the Board may accept from any member, to surrender, on such terms and conditions as shall be agreed, of all or any of his shares.
ALTERATION OF SHARE CAPITAL
19. The Company, by ordinary resolution may, from time to time:
a) consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amount than its existing shares.
b) sub-divide its share or any of them into shares of smaller amount than is fixed by the Memorandum of Association so, however, that in the subdivision the proportion between the amount paid and the amount, if any, unpaid on each reduced share shall be the same as it was in the case of the share from which the reduced share is derived.
c) cancel any shares which, at the date of the passing of the resolution, have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person and diminish the amount of its share capital by the amount of share so cancelled. Where any share capital is sub-divided, the Company in General Meeting, subject to the provisions of the Companies Act 2013, may determine that as between the holders of the shares resulting from sub-division, one or more of such shares shall have same preferential or special rights as regards dividend, payment of capital, voting or otherwise.
Lien
20. The Company shall have a first and paramount lien upon all the shares (not being a fully paid up share) registered in the name of such member (whether solely or jointly with others) and upon the proceeds of sale thereof for his debts, liabilities and engagements (whether presently payable or not) solely or jointly with any other person, to or with the Company, whether the period for the payment, fulfillment or discharge thereof shall have actually lien or not and such lien shall extend to all dividends, from time to time, declared in respect of shares, subject to Companies Act 2013. The Board of Directors may at any time declare any shares to be wholly or in part exempt from the provisions of this clause.
Calls On Shares And Transfer of shares
21. The Directors are empowered to make call on members of any amount payable at a time fixed by them.
22. Any member desiring to sell any of his shares must notify the Board of Directors of the number of shares, the fair value and the name of the proposed transferee and the Board must offer to the other share holders the shares offered at the fair value and if the offer is accepted, the shares shall be transferred to the acceptor and if the shares or any of them, are not so accepted within one month from the date of notice to the Board the members proposing transfers shall, at any time within three months afterwards, be at liberty, subject to Articles 23 and 24 hereof, to sell and transfer the shares to any persons at the same or at higher price.
In case of any dispute, regarding the fair value of the share it shall be decided and fixed by the Company’s Auditor whose decision shall be final.
23. No transfer of shares shall be made or registered without the previous sanction of the Directors, expect when the transfer is made by any member of the Company to another member or to a member’s wife or child or children or his heirs and the Directors may decline to give such sanction without assigning any reason subject to Section 58 of the Companies Act , 2013.
24. The Directors may refuse to register any transfer of shares (1) where the Company has a lien on the shares or (2) where the shares are not fully paid up shares, subject to Section 58 of the Companies Act, 2013.
25. Subject to Section 58 of the Companies Act, 2013 the Directors may in their discretion, without assigning any reason, refuse to register the transfer of any shares to any person, whom it shall, in their opinion, be undesirable in the interest of the Company to admit to membership.
26. At the death of any members his or her shares be recognised as the property of his or her heirs upon production of reasonable evidence as may required by the Board of Directors.
27. Subject to companies Act, every instrument of transfer, duly stamped must be accompanied by the certificate of share proposed to be transferred and such other evidence as the director may require.
28. The Certificate of title of share shall be provided attaching of the seal of the Company.
GENERAL MEETINGS
29. All General Meetings other than the Annual General Meeting shall be called Extra-ordinary General Meetings.
30. (a) The Board may whenever it thinks fit, call an Extra-ordinary General Meetings.
(b) If at any time directors capable of acting who are sufficient in number to form a quorum are not within India, any director or any two members of the company may call an extraordinary general meeting in the same manner, as nearly as possible, as that in which such a meeting may be called by the Board.
(c) The Board shall, on a requisition made by, such number of members who hold, on the date of the receipt of the requisition, not less than one-tenth of such of the paid-up share capital of the company as on that date carries the right of voting call an Extraordinary General Meeting.
31. At least twenty-one days, clear notice of General Meetings of the Company, specifying
the day, hour and place of meeting and the objects shall be given. In every such notice
calling meeting of the Company there will appear a statement that member is entitled
to appoint proxy to attend and to vote instead of himself. A General Meeting may be called after giving a notice shorter than twenty-one days if consent is accorded in case of any general meeting of all the members entitled to vote thereat and in case of any other meeting by members holding not less than 95 (Ninety Five) percent of the paid up share capital and is given a right to vote in a meeting.
32. No business shall be transacted at any general meeting, unless quorum of members in present. At least two members present in person shall be the quorum for general meeting subject to the provisions of Section 103 of the Companies Act, 2013.
33. The Chairman, if any, of the Board, shall preside as Chairman of all Board and general meetings, of the Company. If at any time the Chairman is not present within 15 minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present shall elect one of the Directors present to be Chairman of such meeting. If no director is present or unwilling to act as Chairman, the members may appoint one of their members as Chairman.
34. No member shall be entitled to exercise any voting rights either personally or by proxy at any meeting of the Company in respect of any shares registered in his name on which any calls or other sums presently payable by him have not been paid or in regard to which the Company has exercised any right of lien.
MINUTES
35. Directors shall respectively cause minutes of all proceedings of General Meetings and of all proceedings at meetings of Board of Directors or of committee of the Board to be duly entered in books to be maintained for that purpose in accordance with Section 193 of the Act.
The minutes of each meeting shall contain:
(a) The fair and correct summary of the proceedings thereat.
(b) The name of the Directors present at the meeting in case of meeting of Board or committee of Board of Directors.
(c) The name of the Directors, if any, dissenting from or not consenting to the resolution, in the case of each resolution passed at the meeting of Board or committee of Board of Directors.
(d) All appointments of officers made at any meeting. Any such minutes, purposing to be signed in accordance with the provisions of Section193 of the Act, shall be evidence of the proceedings.
Directors
36. The number of Directors shall not be less than two and not more than twelve.
37. The following shall be the First Directors of the Company.
1. ______________________.
2. _____________________.
38. The Directors may from time to time, appoint one or more of their body to the office of the Managing Director for one or more of the divisions of the business carried on by the
Company and to enter into agreement with him in such terms and conditions as they may deem fit.
39. The Directors shall have the power, at any time and from time to time, to appoint any person as additional Director in addition to the existing Director so that the total number of Directors shall not at any time exceed the number fixed for Directors in these articles, Any Directors so appointed shall hold office up to the date of the next Annual General Meeting or the last date on which the Annual General Meeting should have been held, whichever is earlier.
40. The Managing Director may be paid such remuneration as may, from time to time, be determined by the Board and such remuneration as may be fixed by way of salary or commission or participation in profits or partly in one way or partly in another subject to the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013.
41. The quorum necessary for the transaction, of the business of the Board meeting subject to of the Companies Act 2013, shall be one third of the total strength or at least two whichever is higher.
42. The Company shall not, directly or indirectly, advance any loan, or a loan represented as a book debt, to any of its directors or to any person in whom the director is interested or give any guarantee or provide any security in connection with any loan taken by him or such other person unless the same is approved by the members in general meeting or as a part of conditions of service extended to all of its employees by the Company.
43. Subject to Companies Act 2013, a resolution in writing signed by the Director's except a resolution which the Act specifically required it to be passed at a Board meeting shall be effective for all purposes as a resolution passed at a meeting of Directors duly called, held and constituted.
44. Subject to provisions of the Companies Act 2013, a Director, who may be absent for a period, not less than 3 (three) months from the State in which the meeting of the Board are ordinarily held, have power to appoint any member of the Company elected by him as an alternate director by giving notice in writing under his name to the Board and at his discretion to remove, such alternate director. Such alternate Director shall vacate office when his appointee is present in person or cease to be director. Save as aforesaid such alternate director while so acting shall exercise and discharge all functions and powers and be subject to all the duties and limitations of the Director which he represents and shall be entitled to receive notice to attend and to vote a Director’s Meeting on behalf of meeting attended by him.
45. The Director shall have power for engagement and dismissal of managers, engineers, assistants, clerks and others and shall have power of general direction, and management and superintendence, of the business of the company with full powers to do all such acts, matters and things deemed necessary, proper or expedient for carrying on the business and concern of the Company including the power to make such investment of the Company’s fund as they shall think fit, subject to the limit fixed by the Board of Directors under of the Companies Act 2013 and sign contracts and to draw, make sign, accept, endorse and negotiate on behalf of the Company all bills of exchange, promissory notes, hundies drafts, Government Promissory Notes and other Government securities and such other instruments.
46. The Director may delegate all or any of their powers to such other Directors, Managers or other persons as they think fit and shall have power to grant to any such person such power of attorney, as they deem expedient and such powers at pleasure to revoke, subject to provisions of Companies Act, 2013.
47. Subject to Provision of the Companies Act, 2013 the director shall receive such remuneration for their services as may, from time to time, be determined by the Company in general meeting or in a Board Meeting or may be contained in an agreement, if any, between the Company and any Director or Directors.
48. A Director shall not be required to hold any qualification shares in the Company and also not required to retire by rotation.
49. The Director shall also be paid travelling and other expenses of attending and returning from meeting of the Board (including hotel expenses) and any other expenses incurred by them in connection with the business of the Company. The Directors may also be remunerated for any extra services rendered by them outside their ordinary duties as Director, subject to the provisions of the Companies Act 2013.
50. Subject to the provisions of the companies Act, 2013 and the Rules framed there under, Board may decide to pay a Director out of the funds of the Company by way of sitting fees a sum to be determined by the board for each meeting attended by him.
51. If permitted by the Act, the director may participate in board meeting by telephone or video conferencing or any other means of contemporaneous communication.
52. A Written Resolution circulated to all the Director, whether in India or overseas and signed by majority of them as approved, shall (subject to the provisions of the Companies Act 2013.) be as valid and effective as a resolution duly passed at the meeting of the Board.
53. The controlling shareholders shall have the right to appoint managing director of the company.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS
54. The following powers shall be exercised by the Board or any Committee of the Board, or otherwise by the Company as may be so required:
a) To voluntarily liquidate the Company.
b) To increase or reduce the Company's capital.
c) To issue and allot new shares.
d) To make any Rights Issue of shares.
e) To adopt any resolution to alter the Memorandum and Articles of Association.
f) To join any other company or to invest in any other company.
g) To Issue Debentures.
h) To undertake or permit any merger, consolidation or reorganisation of the Company.
i) To decide on the declaration of dividends and appropriation of profits according to provisions of Section 51 of the Companies Act, 2013.
j) Subject to the provisions of the Companies Act 2013, to give to make any loan to any person or other body corporate or give guarantee or provide security in connection with a loan made by any other person to or to any other person by any body corporate.
55. The business of the Company shall be managed by the Board of Directors who may pay all such expenses preliminary and incidental to the promotion, formation, establishment and registration of the Company as they think fit and may exercise all such power of the Company and do on behalf of the Company all such acts as may be exercised or done by the Company in general meeting and are not barred by statute or by these Articles and are required to be exercised or done by the Company in General Meeting, subject nevertheless to any regulations of the Articles, to the provisions of the statute and to such regulations not being inconsistent with aforesaid regulations or provisions as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting but no regulation made by the Company general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Directors which would have been valid if such regulations had not been made.
56. The Board of Directors may form time to time, pay to the members such interim dividends as appear to be justified from the profits of the Company.
BORROWING POWERS
57. Subject to provisions of the Companies Act.2013, and Regulations made there under and Directions issued by the RBI the directors may, from time to time, raise or borrow any sums of money for and on behalf of the Company from the member companies or banks or they may themselves advance money to the company on such interest or no interest as may be approved by the Directors, without security or on security.
58. The Directors may, from time to time, secure the payment of such money in such manner and upon such terms and conditions in all respects as they deem fit and in particular by the issue of bonds or debentures or by pledge, mortgage, charge or any other security on all or any properties of the Company (both present and future) including its uncalled capital
for the time being.
59. Any debenture, bonds, or other securities may be issued at discount, premium or otherwise and with special privileges as to redemption, surrender, drawing and allotment of shares of the Company and otherwise.
OPERATION OF BANK ACCOUNTS
60. The Directors shall have the power to open bank accounts, to sign cheques on behalf of the Company and to operate all banking accounts of the Company and to receive payments, make endorsements, draw and accept negotiable instruments, hundies and bills or may authorise any other person or persons to exercise such powers.
ACCOUNTS
61. (a) The Board shall, from time to time, determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions or regulations, the accounts and books of the Company, or any of them, shall be open to the inspection of members (not being Director).
(b) No members (not being Director) shall have any right of inspecting any accounts or books or documents of the Company except as conferred by law or authorised by the Board or by the Company in General Meeting.
62. The Directors shall in all respect comply with the provisions of companies Act 2013 and subject to section 133 of the companies Act, 2013, profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet and Auditors Report and every other document required by law to be annexed or attached as the case may be, to the Balance Sheet, to be sent to every member and debenture holder of the Company and every trustee for the holders of the debentures issued by the Company at least twenty one days before the date of Annual general meeting of the Company at which they are to be laid, subject to the provisions of section 219 of the Act.
AUDIT
63. (a) The first Auditor of the Company shall be appointed by the Board of Directors within one month from the date of registration of the Company and the Auditors so appointed shall hold office until the conclusion of the first Annual General Meeting.
(b) At each annual General Meeting the Company shall appoint an Auditor to hold Office from the conclusion of the Meeting till the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting.
(c) The remuneration of the Auditor shall be fixed by the Company in the Annual General Meeting or in such manner as the Company in the Annual General Meeting may determine. In case of an Auditor appointed by the Board his remuneration shall be fixed by the Board.
(d) The Board of Director may fill any casual vacancy in the office of the auditor and where any such vacancy continues, the remaining auditor, if any may act, but where such vacancy is caused by the resignation of the auditors and vacancy shall be filled up by the Company in General Meeting.
COMMON SEAL
64. (a) The Common Seal of the Company may be made either of metal or of rubber as the directors may decide.
(b) The Board shall provide for the safe custody of the Company’s Common Seal.
(c) The Seal shall not be affixed to any instrument except by the authority of a resolution of the Board or of a Committee of the Board authorised by it in that behalf and except in the presence of atleast one director who shall sign every instruments to which the seal of the Company if so affixed. The share certificate will, however, be signed and Sealed in accordance with Rule 6 of the Companies (Issue of Share Certificates) Rules, 1960.
SECRECY
65. Subject to the provisions of law of land and the act, every manager, auditor trustee, member of a committee, officer servant, agent accountant or other persons employed in the business of the company shall, if so required by the Board of Directors before entering upon his duties, sign, declaration, pledging himself to observe strict secrecy respecting all transactions of the Company with its customers and the state of account with individuals and in matters relating thereto and shall by such declaration pledge himself, not to reveal any of the matters which may come to his knowledge in the discharge of his duties except when required to do so by the directors or by any court of law and except so far as may be necessary in order to comply with any of the provisions in these presents.
WINDING UP
66. Winding up when necessary will be done in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act, 2013 or statutory modification thereto.
INDEMNITY
67. Subject to the provisions of the Companies Act 2013, every Director, Manager, Auditor, Secretary and other officers or servants of the Company shall be indemnified, out of the assets of the Company against any bonafide liability incurred by him in defending any bonafide proceedings, whether civil or criminal, in which judgment is given in his favour or in which he is acquired or in connection with any application under provisions of Companies Act 2013, in which relief is granted to him by the Court.
We, the several persons, whose names, address and occupations are hereinafter subscribed below, are desirous of being formed into a Company in pursuance of this Articles of Association.
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Signature of witness
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