Statutory report
The Board of directors must prepare and send to every member a report called the
"Statutory Report" at least 21 days before the day on which the meeting is to be held. But
if all the members entitled to attend and vote at the meeting agree, the report could be
forwarded later also.
• Contents
The statutory report shall set out—
(a) Name, address, etc of the Company.
(b) Date of notice for holding the statutory meeting, date of the meeting, place
where the meeting is to be held.
(c) Details of shares allotted fully paid-up subject to payment in cash, shares
allotted as fully paid up
(d) the total number of shares allotted, distinguishing shares allotted as fully or
partly paid-up otherwise than in cash, and stating in the case of shares partly
paid-up, the extent to which they are so paid-up, and in either case, the
consideration for which they have been allotted;
(e) the total amount of cash received by the company in respect of all the shares
allotted, distinguished as aforesaid;
(f) an abstract of the receipts of the company and of the payments made thereout,
upto a date within seven days of the date of the report, exhibiting under
distinctive headings the receipts of the company from shares and debentures and
other sources, the payments made thereout, and particulars concerning the
balance remaining in hand, and an account or estimate of the preliminary
expenses of the company, showing separately any commission or discount paid
or to be paid on the issue or sale of shares or debentures;
(g) the names, addresses and occupations of the directors of the company and of its
auditors; and also, if there be any, of its manager, and secretary; and the
changes, if any, which have occurred in such names, addresses and occupations
since the date of the incorporation of the company;
(h) the particulars of any contract which, or the modification or the proposed
modification of which, is to be submitted to the meeting for its approval,
together in the latter case with the particulars of the modification or proposed
modification;
(i) the extent, if any, to which each underwriting contract, if any, has not been
carried out, and the reasons therefor;
(j) the arrears, if any, due on calls from every director and from the manager; and
(k) the particulars of any commission or brokerage paid or to be paid in connection
with the issue or sale of shares or debentures to any director or to the manager.
• Certification
The report should be certified as correct by at least two directors, one of whom must
be the managing director, where there is one, and must also be certified as correct by the
auditors of the company with respect to the shares allotted by the company, the cash
received in respect of such shares and the receipts and payments of the company. [Section
165(4)]
• Filing with Registrar
The Board of directors of a company shall deliver a copy of the said report in e-Form
22 electronically to the Registrar, digitally certified by directors and auditors as above
alongwith filing fee as per provisions of Schedule X of the Companies Act, 1956 after
copies thereof have been sent to the members. [Section 165(5)]