https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=96923 An amendment to a resolution for receipt and adoption of accounts is competent when it is germane to the original motion and does not amount in substance to a direct negative of it. An amendment proposing that the accounts be received but not adopted, with an informal committee appointed to examine and report, was treated as falling within that principle. Refusing to permit the amendment deprived the meeting of the chance to consider the motion in amended form and invalidated the subsequent resolution on that question. Section 142 of the Companies Act did not bar the amendment because the proposed committee would not have had statutory committee-of-inspection powers. en-us Fri, 11 Aug 1944 00:00:00 +0630 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:45:10 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=96923 An amendment to a resolution for receipt and adoption of accounts is competent when it is germane to the original motion and does not amount in substance to a direct negative of it. An amendment proposing that the accounts be received but not adopted, with an informal committee appointed to examine and report, was treated as falling within that principle. Refusing to permit the amendment deprived the meeting of the chance to consider the motion in amended form and invalidated the subsequent resolution on that question. Section 142 of the Companies Act did not bar the amendment because the proposed committee would not have had statutory committee-of-inspection powers. Case-Laws Companies Law Fri, 11 Aug 1944 00:00:00 +0630 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=96923