Section 100 — Calling of extraordinary general meeting

(1) The Board may, whenever it deems fit, call an
extraordinary general meeting of the company.
1[Provided that an extraordinary general meeting of the company, other than of the wholly owned
subsidiary of a company incorporated outside India, shall be held at a place within India.]
(2) The Board shall, at the requisition made by,—
(a) in the case of a company having a share capital, such number of members who hold, on the date
of the receipt of the requisition, not less than one -tenth of such of the paid -up share capital of the
company as on that date carries the right of voting;
(b) in the case of a company not having a share capital, such number of members who have, on the
date of receipt of the requisition, not less than one -tenth of the total voting power of all the members
having on the said date a right to vote,
call an extraordinary general meeting of the company within the period specified in sub-section (4).
(3) The requisition made under sub-section (2) shall set out the matters for the consideration of which
the meeting is to be called and shall be signed by the requisitionists and sent to the registered office of the
company.
(4) If the Board does not, within twenty-one days from the date of receipt of a valid requisition in regard
to any matter, proceed to call a meeting for the consideration of that matter on a day not later than forty -
five days from the date of receipt of such requisition, the meeting may be called and held by the
requisitionists themselves within a period of three months from the date of the requisition.
(5) A meeting under sub-section (4) by the requisitionists shall be called and held in the same manner
in which the meeting is called and held by the Board.
(6) Any reasonable expenses incurred by the requisitionists in calling a meeting under sub -section (4)