law: Company Law Board Regulations, 1991 
  36. Petition under
  
  section 17 – 
  1.     
  
    The
  
  company shall, not less than one month before filing any petition under section
  
  (2)of section 17,-
               
  
   i.        
  
    publish
  
  a general notice, at least once, in the district in a daily newspaper published
  
  in English and in the Principal language of that district in which the
  
  registered office of the company is situated and circulating in that district
  
  clearly indicating the substance of the petition and stating that any person
  
  whose interest is likely to be affected by the proposed alteration of the
  
  Memorandum may intimate to the Bench Officer within twenty-one days of the date
  
  of publication of that notice, the nature of interest and grounds of
  
  opposition; and
  serve,
  
  by certificate of posting, individual notice(s)to the effect set out in
  
  clause(i)above on each debenture-holder and creditor of the company, unless
  
  otherwise required by the Bench to be sent by registered post.
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  2.      Where the petition
  
  seeks to change the registered office of the petitioner-company from one State
  
  to another, a notice together with the copy of the petition shall also be
  
  served by registered post on the Chief Secretary to the Government of the State
  
  in which the registered office of the petitioner-company is situate, or, where
  
  the registered office of the company is situated in a Union Territory, to the
  
  Administrator/Lt. Governor of the Union Territory.
  3.      Any person intending
  
  to oppose the petition shall within twenty-one days from the date of service or
  
  publication of the notice, as the case may be, deliver, or cause to be
  
  delivered, or send by registered post, the objections supported by an
  
  affidavit, in original, to the Bench Officer and shall serve a copy of the
  
  objections on the petitioner-company at its registered office.
  4.      If default is made in
  
  complying with any provision of sub-regulation (3), the person concerned shall
  
  be deemed to have consented to the alteration proposed in the petition.
  Provided that the
  
  Bench, may, if it thinks fit, even after the final hearing permit any person to
  
  file objections after giving notice to the petitioner-company.
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  5.      The
  
  petitioner-company shall prove the despatch, publication and service of
  
  notice(s)by an affidavit and such affidavit shall be enclosed with the
  
  petition.
  6.      A petition under
  
  section 17 shall invariably contain information relating to the number of
  
  creditors and the total amount due to them up to the latest practicable date
  
  proceeding the date of filing of the petition and, in any case, the date to
  
  which the list referred to in sub-regulation (8)is made up, shall not precede
  
  the date f filing the petition by more than two months. A list of creditors and
  
  debenture-holders shall also be filed along with the petition
  7.      The Secretary of the
  
  petitioner-company if any, and not less than two directors of the company, one
  
  of whom shall be a managing director, where there is one, shall file an
  
  affidavit to the effect that they have made a full enquiry into the affairs of
  
  the company and, having done so, have formed the opinion that the list referred
  
  to in sub-regulation (8)is correct, that the estimated value as given in the
  
  list of the debts or claims payable on a contingency or not ascertained are
  
  proper estimates of the values of such debts and claims included in the list
  
  are borne out by the books and records of the company and that there are no
  
  other debts of, or claims against, the company to their knowledge.
  8.      Duly authenticated
  
  copy of the list of creditors and debenture-holders showing their names,
  
  addresses and the amounts due to each of them shall be kept at the registered
  
  office of the company and any person desirous of inspecting the same may, at
  
  any time, during the ordinary hours of business, inspect and take extracts from
  
  the same on payment of rupees ten to the company.
  9.      Where no objection
  
  has been received from any of the parties, who have been duly served, the Bench
  
  Officer may put up the petition for orders without hearing.
  10.   Omitted by ibid.