Section 201 — Forms of, and procedure in relation to, certain applications

(1) Every application made to
the Central Government under 2[section 196] shall be in such form as may be prescribed.
(2) (a) Before any application is made by a company to the Central Government under 3[section 196],
there shall be issued by or on behalf of the company a general notice to the members thereof, indicating the
nature of the application proposed to be made.
(b) Such notice shall be published at least once in a newspaper in the principal language of the district
in which the registered office of the company is situate and circulating in that d istrict, and at least once in
English in an English newspaper circulating in that district.
(c) The copies of the notices, together with a certificate by the company as to the due publication