Form ADT‑1 to be filed separately & should not be filed as attachment to Form GNL‑2

Form ADT‑1 is avail­able for fil­ing w.e.f 20th Oct 2014. ADT‑1 should not be filed as attach­ment to Form GNL‑2. Ver­sions of forms 21A and INC‑2 have been mod­i­fied w.e.f 20th Oct. You are request­ed to plan accordingly.

ADT1 Requires the fol­low­ing details:

• Whether Joint Audi­tors have been appointed –
• Peri­od of account for which appointed
• Num­ber of finan­cial year(s) to which appoint­ment relates
• Whether the appoint­ment of audi­tor is with­in the lim­its of twen­ty com­pa­nies as spec­i­fied in sub sec­tion 3(g) of sec­tion 141
• Spec­i­fy the tenure of pre­vi­ous appointment(s) of the audi­tor or auditor’s firm or its mem­ber in the same com­pa­ny in which audit was con­duct­ed or is func­tion­ing (exclud­ing pre­vi­ous years hav­ing break of five or more years as spec­i­fied in Rule 6)

Man­ada­to­ry Attach­ments are:

• Copy of the inti­ma­tion sent by company
• Copy of writ­ten con­sent giv­en by auditor;
• Copy of res­o­lu­tion passed by the company;