CS
751 Points
Joined May 2009
Section 172(2)(i) read with Section 53(1) to (4) :-
172(2) Notice of every meeting of the company shall be given—
(i) to every member of the company, in any manner authorised by subsections
(1) to (4) of section 53;
AND
53. Service of documents on members by company.—(1) A document may
be served by a company on any member thereof either personally, or by sending
it by post to him to his registered address, or if he has no registered address in
India, to the address, if any, within India supplied by him to the company for the
giving of notices to him.
(2) Where a document is sent by post,—
(a) service thereof shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing,
prepaying and posting a letter containing the document, provided that
where a member has intimated to the company in advance that
documents should be sent to him under a certificate of posting or by
registered post with or without acknowledgement due and has deposited
with the company a sum sufficient to defray the expenses of doing so,
service of the document shall not be deemed to be effected unless it is
sent in the manner intimated by the member; and
(b) 1[* * *] such service shall be deemed to have been effected—
(i) in the case of a notice of a meeting, at the expiration of forty-eight
hours after the letter containing the same is posted, and
(ii) in any other case at the time at which the letter would be delivered in
the ordinary course of post.
(3) A document advertised in a newspaper circulating in the neighbourhood
of the registered office of the company shall be deemed to be duly served on the
day on which the advertisement appears, on every member of the company who
has no registered address in India and has not supplied to the company an address
within India for the giving of notices to him.
(4) A document may be served by the company on the joint-holders of a
share by serving it on the joint-holder named first in the register in respect of the
share.