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20 January 2011

Date of Ist Annual General Meeting ?
Private Limited Company.

Incorporation date:25/06/2010

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31 January 2011 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.
(1) Every company shall in each year hold in addition to any other meetings a general meeting as its annual genera meeting and shall specify the meeting as such in the notices calling it; and not
more than fifteen months shall elapse between the date of one annual general meeting of a company and that of the next :
Provided that a company may hold its first annual general meeting within a period of not more than eighteen months from the date of its incorporation; and if such general meeting is held within
that period, it shall not be necessary for the company to hold any annual general meeting in the year of its incorporation or in the following year :
Provided further that the Registrar may, for any special reason extend the time within which any annual general meeting (not being the first annual general meeting) shall be held, by a period not exceeding three months.

(2) Every annual general meeting shall be called for a time during business hours, on a day that is not a public holiday, and shall be held either at the registered office of the company or at some other place within the city, town or village in which the registered office of the company is situate :
Provided that the Central Government may exempt any class of companies from the provisions of this sub-section subject to such conditions as it may impose :
provided further that –
(a) a public company or a private company which is a subsidiary of a public company, may by its articles fix the time for it annual general meetings and may also by a resolution passed in one annual general meeting fix the time for its subsequent annual general meetings; and

(b) a private company which is not a subsidiary of a public company, may in like manner and also
by a resolution agreed to by all the members thereof fix the time as well as the place for its annual general meeting.

Section 167

POWER OF COMPANY LAW BOARD TO CALL ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.

(1) If default is made in holding an annual general meeting in accordance with section 166, the
Company Law Board may, notwithstanding anything in this Act or in the articles of the company, on the application of any member of the company, call, or direct the calling of, a general meeting of the company and give such ancillary or consequential directions as the Company Law Board thinks expedient in relation to the calling, holding and conducting of the meeting.

Explanation : The directions that may be given under this sub-section may include a direction that one member of the company present in person or by proxy shall be deemed to constitute a meeting.

(2) A general meeting held in pursuance of sub-section (1) shall, subject to any directions of the Company Law Board , be deemed to be an annual general meeting of the company.

Section 168

PENALTY FOR DEFAULT IN COMPLYING WITH SECTION 166 OR 167.
If default is made in holding a meeting of the company in accordance with section 166, or in complying with any directions of the Central Government under sub-section (1) of section 167, the company, and every officer of the company who is in default, shall be punishable with fine
which may extend to five thousand rupees and in the case of a continuing default, with a further fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees for every day after the first during which such default continues.

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