Registered Office Change

Notice and verification of change of situation of the registered office.- The notice of change of the situation of the registered office and verification thereof shall be filed in Form No. INC-22 along with the fee and shall be attached to said Form, the similar documents and manner of verification as are prescribed for verification of Registered office on incorporation as above in terms of sub-section (2) of section 12.

Purpose of the eForm The Company is required to furnish to the Registrar verification of its registered office in eForm INC-22 within a period of thirty days from the date of its incorporation. The company can also specify the address of registered office at the time of filing incorporation eForms. For this, the applicant shall upload eForm INC-22 as linked form to eForm INC-7. In case of One Person Company, the particulars of the registered office address can be filed in eForm INC-2 only. And any change in situation of the registered office thereafter, the company is required to notify to Registrar in eForm INC-22 within fifteen days of such change.

In case of existing company In case of change in registered office of a company within local limits of city, town or village or outside local limits of city, town or village but within same state and with same RoC, then the company is required to file eForm MGT-14 (if applicable) and eForm INC-22.

In case the address of registered office of the company is in the state of Maharashtra or Tamil Nadu, the district-wise jurisdiction of the concerned Registrar of Companies is as below. Maharashtra: RoC Pune is having jurisdiction on the following districts – Ahmednagar, Kolhapur, Pune, Ratnagiri, Sangli, Satara, Sindhudurg, Sholapur RoC Mumbai is having jurisdiction on the remaining districts in the state.

In case the registered office of the company is shifted from the jurisdiction of one RoC office to another RoC office within the same state or otherwise then the company is required to file both eForm INC-23 for RD’s approval and eForm INC-28 (old Form 21)for notice of RD’s approval order and eForm INC-22 only once. Old RoC office shall process the eForm and forward the same to the new RoC office for registration. Please note that approval of such eForm INC-22 shall not be allowed in case there is any other eForm(s) pending for payment of fee or is under processing in respect of the company. Company shall be required to obtain the changed CIN and the Certificate for change of registered address from the RoC office, where the company is shifting (that is from the office of new RoC).