General Circular No. O3/2Of9

                      F.No. Ol / 13/2013-CL-V-PI-II
                        GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
                   MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS

                                          Sth Floor, A'Wing Shastri Bhawan,
                                                     Dr. R.P. Road, New Delhi
                                                          Dated, 11.O3.2O19
To,
All Regional Directors,
All Registrars of Companres,
All Stakeholders.

Subject: Clarification on liling of e-form RD- l-Conversion of public
company into private company and change in a Flnancial Year-reg.

Sir/Madam.
       This Ministry vide notihcation no. c.S.R 1219(E) dated 18l12lIB has
notified Companies (Incorporation Fourth Amendment) Rules, 20 18, whereby
applications :uls 2{$1 (change in a financial year) and u/s 14 of the
Companies Act, 20 13 (conversion of public limited company into private
coinpany), along with e-form RD-1 shall be processed by Regional Directors.






2.Stakeholders have expressed certain difhculties in filing e-form RD-1 on
account of aforesaid two purposes pending deployment of revised version of
e-form RD- 1. It is therefore clarified and Regional Directors are advised to
process e-form RD-1 for the above referred applications, if 'others'is seiected
on account of aforesaid two counts, till the revised form is deployed by this
ministry.






3. Further, it is also clarified that such applications filed in e-form no.RD-1
should not be rejected merely on the ground that "others" is selected and "e-
form is not available", till the said form is deployed by this Ministry.
4. This issues with the approval of the competent authority.

                                                               Yours faithfully,


                                                            (K       hffanan)
                                                            As   istant Director


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