If you have recently formed a company in India, you need to deal with some compliance immediately after incorporation and that some should be maintained on a regular basis from time to time. Find the details below:

1. Maintain copy of Incorporation Documents:
   The company shall maintain and preserve at its registered office copies of all documents and information as originally filed on incorporation till the dissolution of the Company.

2. Confirmation of appointment of first Directors of Company:
   Every company shall have at least one director who has stayed in India for a total period of not less than one hundred and eighty two days during the financial year.

3. Maintain a Registered Office:
   As per Section -12(1) company shall, within 30 (thirty) days of its incorporation and at all times thereafter, have a registered office capable of receiving and acknowledging all communications and notices as may be addressed to it.

4. Appointment of First Auditor of Company:
   As per Section- 139(6) – The First auditor of company shall be appointed by the Board of Directors within 30 (thirty) days from the date of registration of the company.

5. Issue Share Certificate As per Section- 56(4)(a):
   Every company shall issue Share Certificate within a period of 2 (two) month from the date of incorporation.

6. Adopt and Affix Board outside the Registered office:
   As per Section- 12(3)(a) – on Board of Company following things should be mentioned, apart from the registered office of the company which should be affixed outside of every office or place in which its business is carried on:
   a) Name of Company.
   b) Registered office address of company.

7. Letter Head /bill-heads, letter papers and all its notices and other official publications of the Company shall be in accordance with Section 12(3)(c):
   As per Section- 12(3)(c) – on letter head of Company following things should be mentioned:
   a) Name of Company.
   b) The address of Registered Office of Company.
   c) Corporate Identification Number.
   d) Telephone No. and Fax No., if any
   e) E-email and Website addresses, if any

8. Disclosure of Interest:
   As per Section- 184(1) – Every director shall disclose his concern or interest in any company or companies or body corporate (including shareholding interest), firms or other association of individuals, by giving a notice in writing in Form – MBP 1.

9. Minutes Book, Statutory Books and Registers which a company should maintain:
   Registers required to be maintained as per Companies Act-2013, are as under:
   – Register of members, Register of Debenture holders, Register of charges etc.

10. Commencement of business etc.:
    A company having a share capital shall commence any business or exercise any borrowing powers after—
    (a) a declaration is filed by a director within a period of one hundred and eighty days of the date of incorporation of the company, with the Registrar that every subscriber to the memorandum has paid the value of the shares agreed to be taken by him; and
    (b) The company has filed with the Registrar a verification of its registered office as mentioned in point 3 above.

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