Corporate Updates – 03-07-2017

MCA:

The MCA has amended the Companies (Transfer of Pending Proceedings) Rules, 2016 and notified the Companies (Transfer of Pending Proceedings) Second Amendment Rules, 2017 which shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. All proceedings relating to voluntary winding up of a company where notice of the resolution by advertisement has been given under sub-section (1) of section 485 of the Act but the company has not been dissolved before the 1"tday of April, 2017 shall continue to be dealt with in accordance with provisions of the Companies Act, 1956. Further, all petitions relating to winding up of a company under clause (e) of section 433 of the Act on the ground of inability to pay its debts pending before a High Court, and, where the petition has not been served on the respondent under rule 26 of the Companies (Court) Rules, 1959 shall be transferred to the Bench of the Tribunal established under sub-section (4) of section 419 of the Companies Act, 2013 exercising territorial jurisdiction to be dealt with in accordance with Part II of the Code and the petitioner shall submit all information, other than information forming part of the records transferred in accordance with Rule 7, required for admission of the petition under Sections 7, 8 or 9 of the Code, as the case may be, including details of the proposed insolvency professional to the Tribunal upto 15thday of July, 2017 , failing which the petition shall stand abated.

MCA – CCI

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (a) of section 54 of the Competition Act, 2002 (12 of 2003), the Central Government, in public interest, hereby exempts every person or enterprise who is a party to a combination as referred to in section 5 of the said Act from giving notice within thirty days mentioned in sub-section (2) of section 6 of the said Act, subject to the provisions of sub-section (2A) of section 6 and section 43A of the said Act, for a period of five years from the date of publication of this notification in the Official Gazette.