{"id":3014,"date":"2020-03-24T09:50:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icap.org.pk\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2020-04-02T12:37:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T12:37:28","slug":"secp-vide-circular-6-of-2020-gives-relaxation-form-certain-provisions-of-companies-act-2017-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.icap.org.pk\/icap\/secp-vide-circular-6-of-2020-gives-relaxation-form-certain-provisions-of-companies-act-2017-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"SECP vide Circular 6 of 2020 gives relaxation form certain provisions of Companies Act, 2017 due to CoVID -19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid CoVID \u2013 19  pandemic the world is dealing with unprecedented circumstances, taking due  consideration of the difficulties being faced by companies SECP vide Circular 6  dated March 22, 2020 <strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/icap.org.pk\/files\/per\/covid19\/secp\/SECP-Circular-6-March-22-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enclosed<\/a>)<\/strong> has given relaxation from certain  provisions of the Companies Act, 2017. <\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li>The companies can now hold their AGM for the year ended       on December 31, 2019 on or before May 29, 2020 <\/li>\n<li>The companies, whose election of directors is due       before or in the aforesaid AGM, may file <em>impediment reports <\/em>with       the concerned registrar under section 158(2) of the Act citing the reasons       for delay in holding the election of directors. <\/li>\n<li>Accordingly, any statutory return which is required to       be filed on or after 24th March, 2020 may be filed with the concerned       registrar with the delay of 30 days of occurrence of any event without any       additional filing fee as no penal action shall be taken for the late       filing.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid CoVID \u2013 19 pandemic the world is dealing with unprecedented circumstances, taking due consideration of the difficulties being faced by companies SECP vide Circular 6 dated March 22, 2020&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.icap.org.pk\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.icap.org.pk\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.icap.org.pk\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.icap.org.pk\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.icap.org.pk\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staging.icap.org.pk\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3022,"href":"https:\/\/staging.icap.org.pk\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/3022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.icap.org.pk\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.icap.org.pk\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.icap.org.pk\/icap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}