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<blockquote data-quote="rarabhagya" data-source="post: 19554765" data-attributes="member: 5147"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><u>HOW TO OBTAIN A NAME APPROVAL</u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">Private, Public, Public Quoted, Guarantee , Foreign, Off-Shore, Unlimited Companies & Associations should get name reservation .</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">Step </span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">1 You must first search the database of the registered companies through this portal or using the books kept on the information counter of Registrar-General of Companies (ROC) for possible similar names..</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">2 After you verify the availability of the Name, fill the Name search form ( ie A16) in this portal or manually using the form collected from the information counter of the ROC</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">3 The form A 16 is examined by at the public information counter (if you hand over the form). More information may be requested depending on the manner in which the forms have been filled. This may be done by e-mail if portal is used. If the name includes initials please indicate what those initials stand for.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">4 You can either send a Name search application using this portal paying Rs. 1151.63 (fees Rs. 1000/= + 11% VAT + Processing charges) (only Sampath e-Wallet, Mater and Visa cards are accepted) or submit manually paying Rs. 1110.00 (Fees Rs1000/= +11% VAT) to the Shroff counter at the Department of ROC</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">5 The Name verification document is sent to the database administrator who will run a search for similar names which he will list and submit send it to the Registrar-General of Companies</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">6 The Registrar-General of Companies (or his Officers) have the sole discretion to approve the name s delegate authority to approve. He may approve the name OR request more information OR a change to the proposed name. If the name is approved. Approval Number can be collected over the information counter of ROC or if sent through the portal will be e-mailed the following day.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">This Reservation valid only for a period of 3 months from the date of application</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><u>How to Register a Private Company</u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">1 Obtain a name approval (as above) </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">2 </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">(a) After obtaining the name approval, Form No. 1, 18, and 19 together with two</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">copies of Articles of Association should be prepared (on A4 paper). All forms</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">should be printed or typewritten. (Section 475) . Hand written forms will not be accepted</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">Form 1 - REGISTRATION OF A COMPANY</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">Form 18 - CONSENT AND CERTIFICATE OF DIRECTOR)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">Form 19 - CONSENT AND CERTIFICATE OF SECRETARY / SECRETARIES</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">. Articles of the Association -</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">(b) May be prepared according to the First Schedule</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> (Model Article) in the Companies Act No. 7 of 2007(Page 414).articles of association set out in the First Schedule hereto (hereinafter referred to as “model articles”)shall apply in respect of any company other than a company limited by guarantee, except to the extent that the company adopts articles which exclude, modify or are inconsistent with the model articles. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">(c) The articles of a private company shall include provisions which―</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> (a) prohibit the company from offering shares or other securities issued by the company to the public; and</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> (b) limit the number of its shareholders to fifty, not including shareholders who are―</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> (i) employees of the company; or</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> (ii) former employees of the company who became shareholders of the company while being employees of such company and who have continued to be shareholders after ceasing to be employees of the company. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">3 Submit the above mentioned documents to the information counter to check whether they are in the correct format. If it is 'ok' submit it to the Shroff counter. The registration fees are Rs 19,980.00 including VAT (Form 1 - Rs. 15000/= , Form 18 - Rs. 1000/= , Form 19 - 1000/= , Articles of Association - Rs 1000/= +11% VAT)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">4 If contents of the forms & articles are correct the certificate can be collected over the counter by producing the payment receipt next day. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px">5 A company shall within thirty working days of its incorporation under this Act, give public notice*of its incorporation, specifying</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> (a) the name and company number of the company ; &</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> (b) the address of the company’s registered office.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> (*public notice- Where public notice of any matter is required to be given under this Act, that notice shall be given by publishing a notice of that matter―</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> (a) in at least one issue of the Gazette; and</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> (b) in at least one issue of a daily newspaper in the Sinhala, Tamil and English (three papers) languages, circulating in the area in which― </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> (i) the company’s place of business;</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> (ii)if the company has more than one place of business, the company’s principal place of business; or</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> (iii)if the company has no place of business or the location of neither its principal place of business nor any other place of business is</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> known to the person required to give the notice, the company’s registered office, is situated. (Extracted from 530th clause of</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> Companies Act No. 7 of 2007) </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 18px"> Further information If one would like to a register private company with shares issued to a foreign investor, it should be either get BOI approval or can be register without getting BOI approval if it is not violating the limitations under section 3 of the extraordinary gazette notification No. 1232/14 dated 2002.04.19 published under the ex change control act (chapter 423 of the CLE). When preparation of articles for these, inclusion of Primary Objects are mandatory</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.drc.gov.lk/App/comreg.nsf?Open" target="_blank">http://www.drc.gov.lk/App/comreg.nsf?Open</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rarabhagya, post: 19554765, member: 5147"] [SIZE="4"][SIZE="5"] [U]HOW TO OBTAIN A NAME APPROVAL[/U] Private, Public, Public Quoted, Guarantee , Foreign, Off-Shore, Unlimited Companies & Associations should get name reservation . Step 1 You must first search the database of the registered companies through this portal or using the books kept on the information counter of Registrar-General of Companies (ROC) for possible similar names.. 2 After you verify the availability of the Name, fill the Name search form ( ie A16) in this portal or manually using the form collected from the information counter of the ROC 3 The form A 16 is examined by at the public information counter (if you hand over the form). More information may be requested depending on the manner in which the forms have been filled. This may be done by e-mail if portal is used. If the name includes initials please indicate what those initials stand for. 4 You can either send a Name search application using this portal paying Rs. 1151.63 (fees Rs. 1000/= + 11% VAT + Processing charges) (only Sampath e-Wallet, Mater and Visa cards are accepted) or submit manually paying Rs. 1110.00 (Fees Rs1000/= +11% VAT) to the Shroff counter at the Department of ROC 5 The Name verification document is sent to the database administrator who will run a search for similar names which he will list and submit send it to the Registrar-General of Companies 6 The Registrar-General of Companies (or his Officers) have the sole discretion to approve the name s delegate authority to approve. He may approve the name OR request more information OR a change to the proposed name. If the name is approved. Approval Number can be collected over the information counter of ROC or if sent through the portal will be e-mailed the following day. This Reservation valid only for a period of 3 months from the date of application [U]How to Register a Private Company[/U] 1 Obtain a name approval (as above) 2 (a) After obtaining the name approval, Form No. 1, 18, and 19 together with two copies of Articles of Association should be prepared (on A4 paper). All forms should be printed or typewritten. (Section 475) . Hand written forms will not be accepted Form 1 - REGISTRATION OF A COMPANY Form 18 - CONSENT AND CERTIFICATE OF DIRECTOR) Form 19 - CONSENT AND CERTIFICATE OF SECRETARY / SECRETARIES . Articles of the Association - (b) May be prepared according to the First Schedule (Model Article) in the Companies Act No. 7 of 2007(Page 414).articles of association set out in the First Schedule hereto (hereinafter referred to as “model articles”)shall apply in respect of any company other than a company limited by guarantee, except to the extent that the company adopts articles which exclude, modify or are inconsistent with the model articles. (c) The articles of a private company shall include provisions which― (a) prohibit the company from offering shares or other securities issued by the company to the public; and (b) limit the number of its shareholders to fifty, not including shareholders who are― (i) employees of the company; or (ii) former employees of the company who became shareholders of the company while being employees of such company and who have continued to be shareholders after ceasing to be employees of the company. 3 Submit the above mentioned documents to the information counter to check whether they are in the correct format. If it is 'ok' submit it to the Shroff counter. The registration fees are Rs 19,980.00 including VAT (Form 1 - Rs. 15000/= , Form 18 - Rs. 1000/= , Form 19 - 1000/= , Articles of Association - Rs 1000/= +11% VAT) 4 If contents of the forms & articles are correct the certificate can be collected over the counter by producing the payment receipt next day. 5 A company shall within thirty working days of its incorporation under this Act, give public notice*of its incorporation, specifying (a) the name and company number of the company ; & (b) the address of the company’s registered office. (*public notice- Where public notice of any matter is required to be given under this Act, that notice shall be given by publishing a notice of that matter― (a) in at least one issue of the Gazette; and (b) in at least one issue of a daily newspaper in the Sinhala, Tamil and English (three papers) languages, circulating in the area in which― (i) the company’s place of business; (ii)if the company has more than one place of business, the company’s principal place of business; or (iii)if the company has no place of business or the location of neither its principal place of business nor any other place of business is known to the person required to give the notice, the company’s registered office, is situated. (Extracted from 530th clause of Companies Act No. 7 of 2007) Further information If one would like to a register private company with shares issued to a foreign investor, it should be either get BOI approval or can be register without getting BOI approval if it is not violating the limitations under section 3 of the extraordinary gazette notification No. 1232/14 dated 2002.04.19 published under the ex change control act (chapter 423 of the CLE). When preparation of articles for these, inclusion of Primary Objects are mandatory[/SIZE][/SIZE] [url]http://www.drc.gov.lk/App/comreg.nsf?Open[/url] [/QUOTE]
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