Section 380:
Documents, etc., to be delivered to Registrar by foreign companies.
(1) Every foreign
company shall, within thirty days of the establishment of its place of business in India, deliver to the
Registrar for registration--
(a) a certified copy of the charter, statutes or memorandum and articles, of the company or other
instrument constituting or defining the constitution of the company and, if the instrument is not in the
English language, a certified translation thereof in the English language;
(b) the full address of the registered or principal office of the company;
(c) a list of the directors and secretary of the company containing such particulars as may be
prescribed;
(d) the name and address or the names and addresses of one or more persons resident in India
authorised to accept on behalf of the company service of process and any notices or other documents
required to be served on the company;
(e) the full address of the office of the company in India which is deemed to be its principal place
of business in India;
(f) particulars of opening and closing of a place of business in India on earlier occasion or
occasions;
(g) declaration that none of the directors of the company or the authorised representative in India
has ever been convicted or debarred from formation of companies and management in India or
abroad; and
(h) any other information as may be prescribed.
(2) Every foreign company existing at the commencement of this Act shall, if it has not delivered to
the Registrar before such commencement, the documents and particulars specified in sub-section (1) of
section 592 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), continue to be subject to the obligation to deliver
those documents and particulars in accordance with that Act.
(3) Where any alteration is made or occurs in the documents delivered to the Registrar under this
section, the foreign company shall, within thirty days of such alteration, deliver to the Registrar for
registration, a return containing the particulars of the alteration in the prescribed form.