In exercise of the powers conferred on it under Item No.(1) of Part- II of the Second Schedule to the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949, the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has issued the following guidelines for information of public and necessary compliance by members of the Institute (Notification available at the link https://resource.cdn.icai.org/56199udinnotification45503.pdf ) – 

(i)     A member of the Institute in practice shall generate Unique Document Identification Number (UDIN) for all kinds of the certification, GST and Tax Audit Reports and other Audit, Assurance and Attestation functions undertaken/signed by him which made mandatory from the following dates through announcements published on the website of the ICAI www.icai.org at the relevant time: -

• For all Certificates w.e.f. 1st February, 2019.
• For all GST and Tax Audit Reports w.e.f. 1st April, 2019.
• For all other Audit, Assurance and Attestation functions w.e.f. 1st July, 2019.

(ii)     The above Guidelines shall come into force from the above dates for the various services respectively. 

Stakeholders are requested to make a note of the same.