Q.A company shifts its registered office to a new address within the local limits of the same city. Which form must it file with the Registrar to notify this change, and within how many days? (A) Form INC-23, within 15 days
(B) Form INC-24, within 30 days
(C) Form INC-22, within 30 days
(D) Form MGT-14, within 60 days

A move within the local limits of the same city, town, or village is the lightest of the three degrees of change of registered office, needing only a Board Resolution and a straightforward notice form to the Registrar. …

Under Section 12(4) of the Companies Act, 2013, a change in the situation of a company's registered office, after a Board Resolution approves it, must be notified to the Registrar in Form INC-22 within 30 days of the change. For a move within the local limits of the same city, town, or village, this Board Resolution and INC-22 filing is the complete procedure — no Special Resolution or Regional Director confirmation is required.

(A) Form INC-23, within 15 days is wrong on both counts — INC-23 is the application to the Regional Director needed only when the move crosses into a different ROC's jurisdiction or a different state, and its own supporting Special Resolution is filed in MGT-14 within 30 days, not 15 — incorrect.

(B) Form INC-24, within 30 days confuses this with the form for approval of a change of company name, an entirely different transaction — incorrect. …

Students sometimes assume every change of registered office needs a Special Resolution and Form MGT-14 — that is only true once the new address falls outside the local limits of the existing ci …