Charge registration: amended filing, verification, signature and stamping requirements for charges and modifications under companies rules.
The amendment substitutes timelines in rule 4A and replaces rules 6 and 6A to prescribe that particulars and copies of instruments creating, modifying or satisfying charges be filed in triplicate in Form 8, Form 10 or Form 17; instruments must be verified by specified certificates depending on situs; Form 13 accompanies filings with a fee; forms must be signed by company and charge holder; the Registrar will stamp documents 'Registered' and provide copies; the statutory register is open for inspection on payment of a fee.

Delegation of powers under companies law: central government amends prior notification to raise the prescribed monetary threshold.
Delegation of Powers under the Companies Act is amended by substituting higher prescribed monetary limits in an earlier government notification. The Central Government revises the figures appearing in column (2) of the Table in the earlier notification, replacing the previously prescribed lower monetary amount with a higher amount for the entries corresponding to numbers 1 and 2, thereby altering the prescribed threshold applicable to those items.

Delegation of Central Government powers expanded under Companies Act by adding delegated provisions through notification amending the schedule.
The Central Government amended an earlier departmental notification to expand the list of provisions delegated to the Department of Company Affairs by inserting additional subsection and section references into the prior notification's delegation schedule; the textual insertions appear immediately below specified entries and operate under the Central Government's delegation power under the Companies Act.

Depreciation allocation clarified: small value plant and machinery may follow Schedule rates when collectively exceeding a materiality threshold.
Amendment omits the words "other than those" from sub item (b) of item (i) under heading II Plant and Machinery and inserts a proviso to Note No. 8 providing that where the aggregate actual cost of individual small value items of plant and machinery exceeds a specified proportion of the total actual cost, the depreciation rates for such items shall be the rates specified in Item II of the Schedule.

Substitution of Form III updates filing and registration entries, mandating specified document fields upon official Gazette publication.
Substitution of Form III in the Companies Regulations, 1956 prescribes a Registrar of Companies template capturing serial number, name of document or minute, date of registration/filing/recording/entry, and whether the item is registered, filed or recorded; the Companies (Amendment) Regulations, 1995 takes effect on publication in the Official Gazette.

Financial institution designation: Industrial Finance Corporation of India Limited added as a notified financial institution under section four A two.
The Central Government amends Notification No. S.O.1329 (8th May, 1978) under sub section (2) of section 4A of the Companies Act, 1956 by inserting a new entry that specifies Industrial Finance Corporation of India Limited, formed and registered under the Companies Act, 1956, as a notified financial institution.

Offences cognizable only on complaint: notified SEBI officers authorised to initiate complaints under specified Companies Act provisions.
The Central Government, under powers of section 621(1) of the Companies Act, 1956, authorises named officers of the Securities and Exchange Board of India to lodge complaints in respect of specified offences under the Companies Act, making those offences cognizable only on complaint by authorised complainants and superseding an earlier notification except as to past acts or omissions.