Companies Act 2007 · As enacted · Part VII · Management and Administration Registered Office
117. Form of records
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The records of a company shall be kept in written form or in a form or in a manner that allows the documents and information that comprise the records to be easily accessible and convertible into written form.
A company shall ensure that adequate measures exist to prevent the records being falsified and detect any falsification of them.
Where a company fails to comply with the requirements of subsection (2)—
the company shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand rupees ; and
every officer of the company who is in default shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand rupees.
INSPECTION OF COMPANY RECORDS
Part VIII
Amalgamations
Part IX
Compromises with Creditors
Part X
Approval of Arrangements, Amalgamations, and Compromises by Court
Part XI
Provisions Relating to Offshore Companies
Part XII
Winding Up
Part XIII
Administrators Appointment of Administrator
Part XIV
Floating Charges
Part XV
Receivers and Managers
Part XVI
Registrar-General of Companies and Registration Appointment of Officers
Part XVII
Application of Act to Existing Companies
Part XVIII
Overseas Companies
Part XIX
Advisory Commission
Part XX
Companies Disputes Board
Part XXI
Offences Miscellaneous Offences
Part XXII
Miscellaneous Prohibition of Partnership with More Than Twenty Members
Part XXIII