Section 103 — Quorum for meetings
(1) Unless the articles of the company provide for a larger number,—
(a) in case of a public company,—
(i) five members personally present if the number of members as on the date of meeting is not
more than one thousand;
(ii) fifteen members personally present if the number of members as on the date of meeting is
more than one thousand but up to five thousand;
(iii) thirty members personally present if the number of members as on the date of the meeting
exceeds five thousand;
(b) in the case of a private company, two members personally present, shall be the quorum for a
meeting of the company.
(2) If the quorum is not present within half-an-hour from the time appointed for holding a meeting of
the company—
(a) the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place,
or to such other date and such other time and place as the Board may determine; or
(b) the meeting, if called by requisitionists under section 100, shall stand cancelled:
Provided that in case of an adjourned meeting or of a change of day, time or place of meeting under
clause (a), the company shall give not less than three days notice to the members either individually or by
publishing an advertisement in the newspapers (one in English and one in vernacular language) which is in
circulation at the place where the registered office of the company is situated.
(3) If at the adjourned meeting also, a quorum is not present within half-an-hour from the time appointed
Related sections
- Section 88 — Register of members, etc
- Section 89 — Declaration in respect of beneficial interest in any share
- Section 91 — Power to close register of members or de benture-holders or other security holders
- Section 92 — Annual return
- Section 93 — [Return to be filed with Registrar in case promoter’s stake changes .] Omitted by the Companies Act,
- Section 94 — Place of keeping and inspection of registers, returns, etc
- Section 95 — Registers, etc., to be evidence
- Section 96 — Annual general meeting
- Section 97 — Power of Tribunal to call annual general meeting
- Section 98 — Power of Tribunal to call meetings of members, etc
- Section 99 — Punishment for default in complying with provisions of sections 96 to 98
- Section 100 — Calling of extraordinary general meeting
- Section 101 — Notice of meeting
- Section 102 — Statement to be annexed to notice
- Section 104 — Chairman of meetings
- Section 105 — Proxies
- Section 106 — Restriction on voting rights
- Section 107 — Voting by show of hands
- Section 108 — Voting through electronic means
- Section 109 — Demand for poll
- Section 110 — Postal ballot
- Section 111 — Circulation of members’ resolution
- Section 112 — Representation of President and Governors in meetings
- Section 113 — Representation of corporations at meeting of companies and of credi tors
- Section 114 — Ordinary and special resolutions
- Section 115 — Resolutions requiring special notice
- Section 116 — Resolutions passed at adjourned meeting
- Section 117 — Resolutions and agreements to be filed
- Section 118 — Minutes of proceedings of general meeting, meeting of Board of Directors and other meeting
- Section 119 — Inspection of minute-books of general meeting
- Section 120 — Maintenance and inspection of documents in electronic form
- Section 121 — Report on annual general meeting
- Section 122 — Applicability of this Chapter to One Person Company