Companies Compromises Arrangements and Amalgamations Amendment Rules 2024

5786 GI/202 4 (1) रजिस्ट्री सं. डी.एल.- 33004/ 99 REGD. No . D. L. -33004/99 EXTRAORDINARY PART II —Section 3 —Sub-section ( i) PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 513] NEW DEL HI, MON DAY , SEPTEMBER 9, 2024/BHADRA 18, 1946 CG-DL-E-10092024-257026 MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 9th September, 2024 G.S.R. 555 (E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub -sections (1) and (2) of section 469 read with sections 233 and 234 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Companies (Compromises, Arra ngements and Amalgamations) Rules, 2016, namely : - 1.(1) These rules may be called the Companies (Compromises, Arrangements and Amalgamations) Amendment Rules, 2024. (2) They shall come into force from the 17th day of September, 2024. 2. In the Companies (Compromises, Arrangements and Amalgamations) Rules, 2016, in rule 25A, after sub-rule (4), the following sub -rule shall be inserted, namely: - “(5) Where the transferor foreign company incorporated outside India being a holding company and the transferee Indian company being a wholly owned subsidiary company incorporated in India, enter into merger or amalgamation, – (i) both the companies shall obtain the prior approval of the Reserve Bank of India; (ii) the transferee Indian company shall comply with th e provisions of section 233; (iii) the application shall be made by the transferee Indian company to the Central Government under section 233 of the Act and provisions of rule 25 shall apply to such application; and (iv) the declaration referred to in sub -rule (4) shall be made at the stage of making application under section 233 of the Act.". [F. No. 2/31/CAA/2013 – CL.V Part] MANOJ PANDEY , Addl . Secy. Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub -section (i) vide notification number G.S.R 1134(E) dated the 14th December, 2016 and subsequently amended vide the following notifications: - Serial Number Notification Number Notification Date 1. G.S.R 368(E) 13th April, 2017 2. G.S.R. 79(E) 3rd February, 2020 3. G.S.R. 773(E) 17th December, 2020 4. G.S.R. 93(E) 1st February, 2021 5. G.S.R. 401(E) 30th May, 2022 6. G.S.R.367(E) 15th May, 2023. Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring R oad, Mayapuri, New Delhi -110064 and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi -110054.