Section 238 — Registration of offer of schemes involving transfer of shares
(1) In relation to every offer of
a scheme or contract involving the transfer of shares or any class of shares in the transferor company to the
transferee company under section 235,—
(a) every circular containing such offer and recommendation to the members of t he transferor
company by its directors to accept such offer shall be accompanied by such information and in such
manner as may be prescribed;
(b) every such offer shall contain a statement by or on behalf of the transferee company, disclosing
the steps it has taken to ensure that necessary cash will be available; and
(c) every such circular shall be presented to the Registrar for registration and no such circular shall
be issued until it is so registered:
Provided that the Registrar may refuse, for reasons to be recorded in writing, to register any such
circular which does not contain the information required to be given under clause (a) or which sets out such
information in a manner likely to give a false impression, and communicate such refusal to the part ies
within thirty days of the application.
(2) An appeal shall lie to the Tribunal against an order of the Registrar refusing to register any circular
under sub-section (1).
(3) The director who issues a circular which has not been presented for registration and registered under
Related sections
- Section 230 — Power to compromise or make arrangements with creditors and members
- Section 231 — Power of Tribunal to enforce compromise or arrangement
- Section 232 — Merger and amalgamation of companies
- Section 233 — Merger or amalgamation of certain companies
- Section 234 — Merger or amalgamation o f company with foreign company
- Section 235 — Power to acquire shares of shareholders dissenting from scheme or contract approved by
- Section 236 — Purchase of minority shareholding
- Section 237 — Power of Central Government to provide for amalgamation of companies in public
- Section 239 — Preservation of books and papers of amalgamated companies
- Section 240 — Liability of officers in respect of offences committed prior to merger, amalgamation, etc