Recruitment amendment for Deputy General Manager: deputation including short-term contract and clarified eligibility criteria.
Amendment revises recruitment for Deputy General Manager to Deputation including short-term contract and permits officers from Central/State governments, union territories, recognized research institutes, PSUs and statutory or autonomous organisations who hold analogous posts on regular basis or occupy the prescribed pay level with five years' regular service or equivalent; desirable qualifications include knowledge of the Companies Act and experience in administrative or establishment matters.

Director KYC deadline: KYC form or web filing required to regularise director records by prescribed date.
The Companies (Appointment and Qualification of Directors) Fourth Amendment Rules, 2019 insert a Note in Rule 12A requiring individuals to submit director KYC for the financial year ending 31st March 2019 by filing e-form DIR-3 KYC or web form DIR-3 KYC-WEB by the prescribed deadline; the amendment takes effect on publication in the Official Gazette.

Director KYC fee waiver: fee for DIR 3 KYC web filings exempted for the 2018-19 financial year until mid October 2019.
An amendment to the Companies (Registration Offices and Fees) Rules, 2014 adds a Note exempting payment of the fee for e form DIR 3 KYC and DIR 3 KYC WEB filed through the web service for the financial year ended 31 March 2019, with the exemption applicable until 14 October 2019.

Posting and transfer of tribunal members: criteria limit reassignments, protect against conflicts, and allow personal or administrative transfers.
Amendment inserts a new rule on posting and transfer of Members. Initial posting is by the Central Government in consultation with the President. Subsequent transfers are made by the President who shall ordinarily consider a Member's capacity, efficiency, disposal and other relevant factors. Members shall not, without sufficient and cogent reasons, be posted where they earlier practised in regulated professions or where close relations practise in Company Law matters. Members should not be posted at a place exceeding three years and ordinarily not return to a previous posting until two years have passed; early transfers are restricted to administrative grounds or personal request, with administrative transfers made in consultation with the Central Government.

Appointment of judicial and technical members under statutory authority establishes pay scale and a three year or age based tenure.
Central Government appoints designated judicial and technical members to the National Company Law Tribunal under statutory authority, specifying pay scale under the applicable pay commission and a tenure of three years or until attaining age sixty five, with individual appointees listed alongside their dates of joining and an administrative file reference.

Company Law Committee to review offences, propose re categorisation, and recommend settlement and procedural reforms.
A Company Law Committee is constituted to review implementation of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008, with a one year initial tenure, named members, legal research support from M/s Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, and eligibility of non official members for allowances. Its terms of reference include re categorising certain offences as civil wrongs, examining settlement mechanisms including deferred prosecution agreements, reviewing the LLP framework, de clogging the NCLT, addressing bottlenecks in statutory bodies, proposing amendments to provisions and Forms, and submitting phased recommendations.

National Financial Reporting Authority rules amended: annual auditor return now due 30 November in Form NFRA-2.
The amendment modifies NFRA Rules, 2018 by permitting a division to be headed by the chairperson or a full-time member, broadening the definition of banking company to include certain statutory new and subsidiary banks, changing the auditor annual return deadline to 30th November to be filed in Form NFRA-2, inserting that form into the Annexure, and authorising the chairperson to record reasons for delayed disposal of show-cause notices and extend the disposal period by up to ninety days and further as needed.

Special Court designation under Companies Act enables speedy trial for serious offences across specified districts.
The Central Government, under section 435 of the Companies Act, 2013 and with concurrence of the Chief Justice of the High Court, Bombay, designates the Court of District Judge-1 and Additional Sessions Judge, Pune as a Special Court to provide speedy trial of offences under the Act punishable with imprisonment of two years or more, covering Pune, Ahmednagar, Kolhapur, Solapur, Satara, Sangli, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts; this supersedes earlier notification S.O. 2564(E) without affecting prior actions.

Territorial jurisdiction amendment under Companies Act narrows Maharashtra coverage, excluding specified districts and altering tribunal designation.
The Central Government, under section 435(1) of the Companies Act, 2013 and with the Chief Justice of the High Court, Bombay's concurrence, amends S.O. 1796(E) by substituting the Table entry for Sl. No. 2: replacing "State of Maharashtra" with "Whole State of Maharashtra except Pune, Ahmednagar, Kolhapur, Solapur, Satara, Sangli, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts of the State of Maharashtra."

Companies incorporation forms amended: RD-1 for Regional Director applications; RD GNL-5 for addendum to rectify filing defects.
The amendment substitutes Forms RD-1 and RD GNL-5 in the Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014. Form RD-1 is for Regional Director applications for rectification or corporate changes and prescribes required identification, purpose, board/resolution particulars, specified attachments (statement of grounds, resolutions, advertisements, lists, declarations) and an authorised digital signature with a compliance declaration. Form RD GNL-5 is an addendum e form to rectify defects in filed forms, requiring SRN details, company particulars, defect description, rectification details, attachments, verification and a professional certificate with digital signatures.

Voting power cap for differential rights shares set, and Debenture Redemption Reserve rules revised to prescribe targeted investment and exemption regimes.
The Rules cap voting power of equity shares with differential rights at seventy four per cent of total voting power and add company secretary to certain explanatory provisions. The DRR regime requires creation from profits available for dividend, exempts specified financial institutions and banking companies, aligns other financial institutions with NBFC norms, sets ten percent adequacy for certain unlisted companies, prescribes an annual investment/deposit of not less than fifteen per cent of debentures maturing during the year in specified permitted instruments, limits use of such investments to redemption, and applies DRR only to non convertible portions of partly convertible debentures.

Companies (Amendment) Act provisions come into force 15 August 2019 for specified sections including governance and statutory amendments.
The Central Government appoints 15 August 2019 as the date on which specified provisions of the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2019 come into force, listing sections 6, 7 and 8; clauses (i), (iii) and (iv) of section 14; section 20; section 31; sections 33-35; and sections 37 and 38, by notification S.O. 2947 (E) under sub section (3) of section 1 of the Act.

Investor Education and Protection Fund amendments tighten transfer, reporting and claim verification requirements and nodal officer obligations.
The amendment mandates online remittance of amounts to the Investor Education and Protection Fund with Form IEPF-1 within thirty days, requires companies to submit legacy transfers via Form IEPF-1A within sixty days, and to identify and publish unclaimed amounts for the prior seven years via Form IEPF-2. Companies must transfer shares to the Fund (including transfers up to 7 September 2016), notify such transfers in Form IEPF-4, credit benefits on transferred shares to the Fund DEMAT account, appoint a Nodal Officer responsible for claim verification, and submit e-verification reports and certified documents to the Authority within specified timelines; fraudulent claims attract penal consequences.

Notification amendment replaces a specified locality name in a Companies Act notification; change effective upon Gazette publication.
The amendment substitutes the locality name Shillong with Guwahati in the Table at serial number (6) of the earlier G.S.R. 832(E) notification; the change is made under the Companies Act and is effective from its publication in the Official Gazette.

Establishment of Registrar of Companies office creates territorial jurisdiction for company registration and statutory functions in the northeast.
Establishment of a new Registrar of Companies at Guwahati creates an administrative office responsible for company registration and related statutory functions in the northeastern region, following relocation from Shillong, with territorial jurisdiction over the states in that region and commencement upon publication in the Official Gazette.

Companies law: designation changed from Registrar of Companies Shillong to Guwahati; amendment effective on publication.
The notification amends the earlier S.O. 831 (E) by substituting the designation "Registrar of Companies, Shillong" with "Registrar of Companies Guwahati" for serial number 11 in the Table; the amendment is made under statutory powers associated with the Companies Act and the Companies (Adjudication of Penalties) Rules and takes effect from publication. The record notes later supersession by a subsequent notification effective 16 February 2026.

Director KYC filings: deadline extended to 30 September; web-based DIR-3-KYC-WEB introduced; contact updates must use e-form.
The rules add the web-based filing option DIR-3-KYC-WEB to the Annexure, replace "has been allotted" with "holds" for DIN wording, move the KYC submission deadline to 30 September of the immediate next financial year, deem web-form submission in subsequent years to satisfy the rule where prior e-form filings exist, require mobile/email updates only via e-form DIR-3-KYC, and confirm applicable filing fees under the Companies (Registration Offices and Fees) Rules, 2014.

Director KYC filing obligations: updated fee consequences for delayed or non-filing of e-form DIR-3 KYC under rule 12A.
Amendment prescribes fee consequences for e form DIR 3 KYC or DIR 3 KYC WEB under rule 12A, specifying that a fee is payable for the immediate previous financial year when filed by the annual cut off and distinct fees apply for delayed filing and for failure to file through the web service for the immediate previous financial year.

Special Court designation under Companies law enables expedited trial of serious corporate offences in Maharashtra.
The Central Government, with concurrence of the High Court, designated the Court of District Judge 1 and Additional Sessions Judge, Pune as a Special Court to conduct expedited trials of offences under the Companies Act punishable with imprisonment of two years or more, conferring focused criminal jurisdiction for such corporate offences within the State of Maharashtra; the notification was subsequently superseded by a later notification.

Nidhi companies must apply in Form NDH-4 for declaration; non-compliance blocks SH 7 and PAS 3 filings.
A public company seeking declaration as a Nidhi must apply to the Central Government in Form NDH-4 with fee and, if satisfied, the Government will notify the company as a Nidhi in the Official Gazette; newly incorporated Nidhis must file Form NDH-4 within specified post incorporation periods and failure to comply bars filing Form SH 7 and Form PAS 3.