Electronic filing of company documents is mandated by rules covering authentication, service, inspection, payments, and registrar actions. The Central Government may prescribe rules requiring specified company documents and communications to be filed, authenticated, served, maintained, inspected and paid for in electronic form; the Registrar may perform registration, issue certificates, record notices and receive communications electronically as prescribed, and the Government may notify a scheme to implement these electronic provisions, subject to a clarification that such rules shall not relate to imposition of fines, pecuniary penalties, demands or punishment for contraventions.