(1) A company shall, on and from the fifteenth day 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.

(2) The company shall furnish to the Registrar verification of its registered office within a period of thirty days of its incorporation in such manner as may be prescribed.

(3) Every company shall—

1. paint or affix its name, and the address of its registered office, and keep the same painted or affixed, on the outside of every office or place in which its business is carried on, in a conspicuous position, in legible letters, and if the characters employed therefor are not those of the language or of one of the languages in general use in that locality, also in the characters of that language or of one of those languages;
2. have its name engraved in legible characters on its seal, if any;
3. get its name, address of its registered office and the Corporate Identity Number along with telephone number, fax number, if any, e-mail and website addresses, if any, printed in all its business letters, in all its billheads, in all its letter papers, in all its notices and other official publications and also in all its bills of exchange, hundis, promissory notes, cheques and such other documents as may be prescribed.

(4) Where a company has changed its name or names during the last two years, it shall paint or affix or print, as the case may be, along with its name, the former name or names so changed during the last two years as required under clause (a) and clause (c) of sub-section (3).

(5) No company shall change the place of its registered office from one State to another except by way of alteration of its memorandum in accordance with this section and subject to the confirmation by the Central Government on an application made in the prescribed form.

(6) No change in the place of the registered office shall be made by a company unless the change is confirmed by the Central Government on an application in the prescribed form.

(7) The confirmation referred to in sub-section (5) shall be communicated within a period of sixty days to the Registrar who shall record the same and the Registrar of the State where the registered office is being shifted to, shall issue a fresh certificate of incorporation.

(8) If default is made in complying with the requirements of this section, the company and every officer who is in default shall be liable to a penalty of one thousand rupees for every day during which the default continues but not exceeding one lakh rupees.