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Companies Act Section 379
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The Companies Act, 2013

Section 379 Application of Act to foreign companies

Chapter
XXII · Companies Incorporated Outside India
Amendments
3
Last changed
22 January 2021
379. Application of Act to foreign companies.—
1[(1) Sections 380 to 386 (both inclusive) and sections 392 and 393 shall apply to all foreign companies:
Text omitted by amendmentThe Proviso omitted by Companies (Amendment) Act, 2020, s. 53, with effect from 22 January 2021
Renumbered by Companies (Amendment) Act, 2020, s. 77, with effect from 9 February 2018(2) Where not less than fifty per cent. of the paid-up share capital, whether equity or preference or partly equity and partly preference, of a foreign company is held by one or more citizens of India or by one or more companies or bodies corporate incorporated in India, or by one or more citizens of India and one or more companies or bodies corporate incorporated in India, whether singly or in the aggregate, such company shall comply with the provisions of this Chapter and such other provisions of this Act as may be prescribed with regard to the business carried on by it in India as if it were a company incorporated in India.

Amendments to this section

  1. 1 Inserted by Companies (Amendment) Act, 2017, s. 77 (w.e.f. 9 February 2018).
  2. 2 The Proviso omitted by Companies (Amendment) Act, 2020, s. 53 (w.e.f. 22 January 2021).
  3. 3 Renumbered by Companies (Amendment) Act, 2020, s. 77 (w.e.f. 9 February 2018).

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