Last date for appointment of Cost Auditor for f/y 2012-13 by the Companies is 29th June(90 days from start of f/y), before that company has to pass the board resolution for appointment from auditor and obtain certificates of independence and arm length relationship, after this company will file form 23C on MCA site and if there is no query from ministry then co. will inform auditor and he will file form 23D on MCA.
Here are the penal provisions for the delay.
Non compliance by Companies:
If a Company contravenes any provision of this circular, the company and every officer thereof who is in default, including the persons referred to in subsection (6) of Section 209 of the Act shall be punishable as provided under sub-section (2) of Section 642 read with sub-section (5) and (7) of Section 209 and sub-section (11) of Section 233B of Companies Act, 1956.
Relevant provisions of Section 209 of the Companies Act, 1956 are as follows:
Sub- section (5) of Section 209 provides that if any of the persons referred to in sub-section (6) fails to take all reasonable steps to secure compliance by the company with the requirements of this section, or has by his own willful act been the cause of any default by the company there under, he shall, in respect of each offence, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees, or with both:
Provided that in any proceedings against a person in respect of an offence under this section consisting of a failure to take reasonable steps to secure compliance by the company with the requirements of this section, it shall be a defence to prove that a competent and reliable person was charged with the duty of seeking that those requirements were complied with and was in a position to discharge that duty:
Provided further that no person shall be sentenced to imprisonment for any such offence unless it was committed willfully.
Sub- section (6) of Section 209 provides that the persons referred to in subsection (5) are the following, namely:—
(a) where the company has a managing director or manager, such managing director or manager and all officers and other employees of the company; and
(d) where the company has neither a managing director nor manager, every director of the company;
Sub- section (7) of Section 209 provides that if any person, not being a person referred to in sub-section (6), having been charged by the managing director, manager or Board of directors, as the case may be, with the duty of seeing that the requirements of this section are complied with makes default in doing so, he shall, in respect of each offence, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which my extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees, or with both.
Relevant provision of Section 642 of the Companies Act 1956 is as under:
Sub-section (2) of Section 642 provides that any rule made under sub-section (1) may provide that a contravention thereof shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees and where the contravention is a continuing one, with a further fine which may extend to five hundred rupees for every day after the first during which such contravention continues.
Non compliance by Cost Auditor:
If default is made by the cost auditor in complying with the aforesaid provisions, he shall be punishable with fine, which may extend to five thousand rupees
Thanks and Regards
CMA Rahul Jain
E-mail - jainrahulcwa@gmail.com
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