Section 403 — Fee for filing, etc
(1) Any document, required to be submitted, filed, registered or recorded, or
any fact or information required or authorised to be registered under this Act, shall be submit ted, filed,
registered or recorded within the time specified in the relevant provision on payment of such fee as may be
prescribed:
1[Provided that where any document, fact or information required to be submitted, filed, registered or
recorded, as the case may be, under section 92 or 137 is not submitted, filed, registered or recorded, as the
case may be, within the period provided in those sections, without prejudice to any other legal action or
liability under this Act, it may be submitted, filed, registe red or recorded, as the case may be, after expiry
of the period so provided in those sections, on payment of such additional fee as may be prescribed, which
shall not be less than one hundred rupees per day and different amounts may be prescribed for diffe rent
classes of companies:]
2[Provided further that where the document, fact or information, as the case may be, in cases other than
referred to in the first proviso, is not submitted, filed, registered or recorded, as the case may be, within the
period provided in the relevant section, it may, without prejudice to any other legal action or liability under
this Act, be submitted, filed, registered or recorded as the case may be, on payment of such additional fee
as may be prescribed and different fees may be prescribed for different classes of companies:
3[Provided also that where there is default on two or more occasions in submitting, filing, registering
or recording of such document, fact or information, as may be prescribed, it may, without prejudice to any
other legal action or liability under this Act, be submitted, filed, registered or recorded, as the case may be,
on payment of such higher additional fee, as may be prescribed.]]
Related sections
- Section 396 — Registration offices
- Section 397 — Admissibility of certain documents as evidence
- Section 398 — Provisions relating to filing of applications, documents, inspection, etc., in electronic form
- Section 399 — Inspection, production and evidence of documents kept by Registrar
- Section 400 — Electronic form to be exclusive, alternative or in addition to physical form
- Section 401 — Provision of value added services through electronic form
- Section 402 — Application of provisions of Information Technology Act, 2000
- Section 404 — Fees, etc., to be credited into public account