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Charge under the Companies Act, 2013 means an interest or lien created on the property and assets of the company or any of its undertakings or both as security and includes mortgage.
REGISTRATION OF CHARGES (SECTION 77):
Every company creating a charge shall register the particulars of charge signed by the company and its charge – holder together with the instruments creating such charge with the Registrar within thirty days of its creation.
- Any charge created
- within or outside India
- on property or assets
- of company or any of its undertaking
- Whether tangible or otherwise
- Situated in or outside India
- Shall be registered.
The Registrar may allow registration of charge within three hundred days of creation of charge on payment of additional fee.
If company fail to register the charge even within this period of three hundred days, it may seek extension of time in accordance with Section 87. We will discuss this section in our next post.
Any subsequent of charge shall not prejudice any right acquired in respect of any property before the charge is actually registered.