Draft Notice for Annual General Meeting and Special General Meeting

Every housing society member in Navi Mumbai knows the paper slip that arrives before the annual meeting with a date, a time and a list of items. Companies send the same kind of notice to their shareholders, but in a company a badly drafted notice can make a resolution open to challenge. What must the notice say, how many days before the meeting must it reach the members, and when does an item need an explanatory statement?

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A notice of a general meeting is the company's invitation to its members, issued on the Board's authority, which must be given at least clear twenty-one days before the meeting and must state the place, date, day and hour and the business to be transacted (Companies Act 2013, s.101).

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