Section 317, The Companies Act, 2009

(1) Subject to this section, every company having a sharecapital other than a small company shall at least once in every year, make a return containing the following information:– (a) the names, addresses and occupations of all past and present members and the number of shares held by them and the shares transferred since the last return; (b) the address of the registered office, and if the register of members is kept elsewhere than at the registered office of the company, the address of the place where it is kept; (c) a summary distinguishing between shares issued for cash and shares issued as fully or partly paid up otherwise than in cash specifying the following particulars:– (i) the amount of share capital and the number of shares into which it is divided; (ii) the number of shares taken from the incorporation of the company up to the date of the return; (iii) the amount called up on each share and the total amount of calls received and unpaid; (iv) the total amount of moneys, if any, paid by way of commission in respect of any shares or debentures; (v) particulars of any discount allowed on the issue of any shares issued at a discount or so much of the discount as has not been written off at the date on which the return is made; (vi) the amount of shares forfeited; (vii) the amount of shares for which share warrants are outstanding at the date of the return and of the share warrants issued and surrendered respectively since the date of the last return and the number of shares comprised in each warrant; (viii) particulars of directors; and (ix) the amount of indebtedness in respect of all mortgages and charges which are required to be registered under this Act. (2) The return shall be in the form set out in the Sixth Schedule. 242 243 Annual returns of having share False statements to (3) In the case of a company still keeping a branch register, the particulars of the entry in that register shall, so far as they relate to matters which are required to be stated in the return, be included in the return made next after copies of those entries are received at the registered office of the company.