MOA&AOA by Animesh Shekhawat
MOA&AOA by Animesh Shekhawat
MOA&AOA by Animesh Shekhawat
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ARTICLE OF ASSOCIATION
The Companies Act, 1956 and Companies Act, 2013 (To the extent applicable)
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
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MG RETAIL PRIVATE LIMITED
wear clothing, home furnishing, cosmetics, utility products, Children products and fashion
accessories including clothes and apparels for women, men, and children such as shirts,
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trousers, shorts, jackets, t-shirts, skirts, scarf, tie, sweaters, dresses, tops, underwear,
● To acquire, own, lease, hire, rent, build, develop, construct, operate, dispose and/or manage
● To acquire, own, lease, hire, rent, build, develop, construct, operate, dispose and/or manage
warehouses for storage of all kinds of products mentioned above and dealt in by the Company.
5. Share Capital
The authorized share capital of the Company is Rs. 50,00,000 (Rupees Fifty Lakh) divided into 50,000
Subject to the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956, to invest, apply for and acquire or otherwise
employ monies belonging to, entrusted to or at the disposal of the Company upon securities and
shares with or without security upon such terms as may be thought proper and from time to time
vary such transactions in such manner as the Company may think fit.
● Identical with or resemble to nearly to the name of an existing company registered under
● Such that its use by the company will not constitute an offense under any law for time being
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
1. INTERPRETATION
3. "Act" means the Companies Act, 1956 and any statutory modifications thereof.
4. "Companies Act,2013" means the provisions ofCompanies Act, 2013 to the extent
applicable.
6. "Directors' means the Directors of the Company and includes persons occupying the
Articles shall bear the same meaning as in the Act, or any statutory modification
thereof in force at the date at which these Articles become binding on the Company.
8. Words importing the singular number also include the plural number and vice versa and
words importing the masculine gender also include feminine gender.
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PRIVATE COMPANY
2.. The Company is a Private Company within the meaning of Section 2(68) of the Companies Act,
2013 with a minimum paid up capital ofRupees Fifty Lakh or such higher paid-up capital as may be
● The number of members of the Company (exclusive of persons who are in the
employment of the Company and persons who, having been formerly in the
limited to two hundred provided that for the purpose of this definition where two or
more persons jointly hold one or more shares in the Company, they shall be treated
● The right to transfer the shares in the Company is restricted in the manner and to
● Prohibits any invitation or acceptance of deposits from persons other than its
members.
CAPITAL
4. The Authorized Share Capital of the Company shall be such sum, divided and classified into such
shares of the Company with power ot the Board of Directors ot increase, reduce or divide the
Capital for the time being into several classes and to attach thereto respectively such preferentially
priority, deferred, qualified or special rights, privileges, conditions or restriction whether in regard to
determined in accordance with law and regulations of the Company in force and to vary, modify or
abrogate any such rights, privilege or conditions or restrictions in such manner as may from time to
time be provided by regulations. of the Company and to consolidate or subdivide or re- organize
shares or issues of shares of higher or lower denominations. The Directors may in their discretion,
increase or decrease the rate of dividend payable on any Preference Shares and issue the said
shares under non cumulative or cumulative dividend payment scheme at the time of issue of such
shares. The Company shall have minimum paid up capital ofRs. 50,00,000- (Rupees Fifty Lakh only).
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5 The shares shall be under the control and disposal of the Directors who may allot or otherwise
dispose of the same to such persons and on such terms as the Directors may think fit and t o issue
6. The Directors may allot and issue shares in the capital of the Company on full payment or part
payment for any property, goods or machinery supplied, sold or transferred or for services rendered
to the Company.
7. The Company in general meeting may decide to issue fully paid up bonus share to the member if
8. Any member desiring to sell any of his shares must notify the Board Directors the number of
shares, the fair value and the name of the proposed transferee and the Board of Directors must
offer to the other/existing shareholders the shares at Rs. 50 each subiect to the Foreign Exchange
Laws, the shares shall be transferred or and if the shares or any of them are not so accepted within
one month from the date of notice to the Board of Directors, the members proposing transfers
shall, at any time within three months afterwards, be at liberty, here of, to sell and transfer the
9. (a) An application for the registration of the transfer of shares may be made either by the
transferor or the transferee provided that where such application is made by the transferor, no
registration shall in the case of partly paid up shares be affected unless the company gives notice of
the application to the transferee and subject to the provision of sub-clause (f) hereof the Company
shall, unless objection is made by the transferee within two weeks from the date of receipt of the
notice, enter in its register of members the name of the transferee in the same manner and subject
to the same conditions as if the application for registration was made by the transferee.
(b) It shall not be lawful for the Company to register a transfer of any shares unless a proper
instrument of transfer has been duly stamped and executed by the transferor or the transferee and
has been delivered to the company along with the shares certificates provided that upon proof to
the satisfaction of the Board of Directors of the Company of the instrument of transfer being signed
by the transferee and bearing the stamp required by an instrument of transfer the Board of
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Directors of the Company may register the transfer on such terms as to indemnity and/or otherwise
(d) If the Company refuses to register the transfer of any shares, the Company shall within two
months from the date on which the instrument of transfer was lodged with the Company send to
(e) Nothing in clause (c) shall prejudice any power of the Company to register as a shareholder any
person to whom the right to any share has been transmitted by the operation of law.
(f) Nothing in this Article shall prejudice any power of the Company to refuse to register the transfer
of any shares. The instrument of transfer shall, after ht registration, be retained by the Company
and shall remain in its custody. All instruments of transfer which the Board of Directors of the
Company may decline to register shall, on demand, be returned to the person depositing the same.
10. The Directors may refuse to register any transfer of shares (1) where the Company has a lien on
the share or (2) where the share is not a fully paid up share.
11. Consent of the Company is hereby accorded to the Board of Directors to buy-back, from the
existing shareholders, as the Board may think fit, from out of its free reserves or out of proceeds of
any issue made by the Company specifically for this purpose, or from such other sources as may be
permitted by law, such terms condition and in such manner as may be prescribed by law from time
to time.
GENERAL MEETING
12. All General Meetings other than the Annual General Meeting shall be called Extraordinary
General Meetings.
13. Any General Meeting of the Company (other than the Annual General Meeting) may be
14. The Company may hold general meetings through an audio-visual conference and such
meetings and discussions will be held in accordance with the requirements and procedures that
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may be prescribed from time to time by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India
15. (i) The Board of Directors may, whenever it thinks fit, call an Extraordinary General Meeting.
(ii) If at any time they are not within India, Directors capable of acting who are sufficient in number
to form a quorum, any Director or any two members of the Company may call an extraordinary
general meeting in the same manner, as nearly as possible, as that in which such a meeting may be
(iii) A General Meeting may be called by giving to the members clear twenty one days' notice or a
shorter notice than of twenty one days if consent thereto is given by members
16. (i)No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a specified quorum of members
17. The Chairman if any, of the Board of Directors shall preside as Chairman at every general
18. If there is no such Chairman or if he is not present within fifteen minutes after the time
appointed for holding the meeting or is unwilling to act as Chairman of the meeting, the Directors
19. If at any meeting, no Director is willing to act as Chairman or if no Director is present within
Fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the members present shall choose
20. (1) The Chairman may with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present and shall, if
so directed by the Meeting, adjourn the meeting, from time to time and from place to place.
(ii) No business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished
(iii) When a meeting is adjourned for thirty days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be
(iv) Save as aforesaid, it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or ofthe
21. Every question submitted to a meeting shall be decided, in the first instance by a show of hands,
and in the case of an equality of votes, both on a show ofhands and on poll, the Chairman of the
meeting shall have a casting vote in addition to the vote to which he may be entitled to a sa
member.
22. The demand for a poll shall not prevent the continuance of a meeting for the transaction of any
other business, other than the question on which the poll has been demanded
DIRECTORS
23. The business of the Company shall be managed by the Directors who may pay all expenses
incurred in setting up and registering the Company and may exercise all such powers of the
Company as are not restricted by the Act or any statutory modification thereof for the time being in
force or by these Articles required to be exercised by the Company in general meeting, subject
nevertheless ot any regulations of these Articles, to the provisions of the Act, and to such regulations
being not inconsistent with the aforesaid regulations or provisions as may be prescribed by the
24. The number of Directors shall not be less than two and not more than twelve,
25. The following shall be the first Directors of the Company. 1. Miss Mrinal Gupta
2. Mr. AnimeshShekhawat
26. The Directors need not hold any qualification shares in the Company.
27. (a) Subject to the provisions of the Act and rules framed thereunder, each Director shall receive
out of the funds of the Company by way of sitting fees for his services a sum not exceeding the sum
prescribed under the Act for every meeting of the Board of Director or Committee thereof attended
(b) The Directors may also be paid traveling and other expenses for attending and returning from
meetings of the Board of Directors (including hotel expenses) and any other expenses properly
(c) The Directors may also be remunerated for any extra services done by them outside their
28. Subject To the provisions of the Act, if any Director being willing shall be called upon to perform
extra services for the purposes of the Company, the Company shall remunerate such Director by
such fixed sum or percentage of profits or otherwise as may be determined by the Directors and
such remuneration may be either in addition to or in substitution for his remuneration provided
above.
29. No Directors shall be disqualified by bis office from contracting with the Company, nor shall any
such contract be entered into by or on behalf of the Company in which any Director shall be in any
way interested be avoided, nor shall any Director contracting or being so interested be liable ot
account to the Company for any profit realized by any such contract by reason only of such Director
holding that office or of the fiduciary relations thereby established but it is declared that the nature
of his/her interest must be disclosed by him/herat the meeting of the Directors at which the contract
is determined if his/her interest then exists or in any other case, at the first meeting of the Directors
30. The Directors may appoint any person to be an alternate Director to act for a Director
(hereinafter in this Article called the original Director') during his absence for a period not less than
three months from the State in which meetings of the Directors are ordinarily held, but such
alternate Director shall, ipso facto vacate office if and when the original Director returns to the State
31. All the Directors shall not be liable to retire from the office by rotation.
32. The Board of Directors may, from time to time, increase or reduce the number of Directors
33. The company, may by ordinary resolution, of which special notice has been given in accordance
with the provisions of Section 190 of the Act remove any Director including the Managing Director, if
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any, before the expiration of the period of his office, notwithstanding anything contained or in any
agreement between the company and such Director. Such removal shall be without prejudice to any
34. The Directors may hold any and all Board meetings through an audio-visual conference and such
meetings and discussions will be held in accordance with the requirements and procedures that
may be prescribed from time to time by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India
35. A Meeting ofBoard of Directors may be held in India and/or outside India.
36. The Board ofDirectors may, from time to time, appoint one or more of their members to the
office of the Managing Director or Whole Time Director for such period and on such remuneration
and other terms, as they think fit and subject to the terms of any agreement entered into and in any
particular case, may revoke such appointment. His appointment will be automatically terminated If
he ceases to be a Director.
37. A Managing or Whole 'Time Director may be paid such remuneration (whether by way of salary,
commission or participation in profits or partly in one way and partly in other) as the Board of
38.. Subject to Section 292 of the Act the Board of Directors shall have the right to delegate any of
their powers to such managers, agents or other persons as they may deem fit and may at their own
39. The Directors shall have powers for the engagement and dismissal of employees, managers,
salespersons, clerks and assistants and shall have power of general direction, management and
superintendence of the business of the Company with full powers to do all such acts, matters and
things deemed necessary, proper or expedient for carrying on the business of the Company, and ot
make and signal such contracts and to draw and accept on behalf of the Company all such bills of
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exchange, hundies, cheques, drafts and other Government papers and instruments that shall be
necessary, proper or expedient, for the authority and direction of the Company except only such of
them as by the Act or by these presents are expressly directed to be exercised by share-holders in
BORROWING POWERS
40.The Directors shall have the power, from time to time and at their discretion, to borrow, raise or
secure the payment of any sum of money for the purpose of the Company in such manner and
upon such terms and conditions in all respects as they think fit and in particular by the issue of
debentures or bonds of the Company or by mortgage or charge upon all or any of the properties of
the Company, both present and future, including its uncalled capital for the time being.
WINDING UP
41. (i) If the Company shall be wound up, the liquidator may with the sanction of a special resolution
of the Company and any other sanction required by the Act, divide amongst the members in specie
or in kind, the whole or any part of the assets of the Company, whether they shall consist of the
(ii) For the purpose aforesaid, the liquidator may set such value as he deems fair upon any property
to be divided as aforesaid and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between the
(iii) The liquidator may, with the like sanction, vest the whole or any part of such assets in trustees
upon such trusts for the benefit of the contributories as the liquidator shall think fit but so that no
member shall be compelled to accept any shares or other securities whereon there is any liability.
42. Balance Sheet and profit and Loss Account of the Company will be audited once in a year by a
AUDIT
43. The first auditors of the Company shall be appointed by the Board of Directors within one month
after its incorporation who shall hold office till the conclusion of first annual general meeting.
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44. The directors may fill up any casual vacancy in the office of the auditors.
45.The remuneration of the auditors shall be fixed by the Company in the annual general meeting
except that remuneration of the first or any auditors appointed by the directors may be fixed by the
Board ofDirectors.
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