law: Companies Act, 2013 
  201.
  
    Forms
  
  of, and procedure in relation to, certain applications.
  1.      Every application
  
  made to the Central Government under this Chapter shall be in such form as may
  
  be prescribed.
  2.     
  a.     
  
    Before
  
  any application is made by a company to the Central Government under any of the
  
  sections aforesaid, there shall be issued by or on behalf of the company a
  
  general notice to the members thereof, indicating the nature of the application
  
  proposed to be made.
  b.    
  
    Such
  
  notice shall be published at least once in a newspaper in the principal
  
  language of the district in which the registered office of the company is
  
  situate and circulating in that district, and at least once in English in an
  
  English newspaper circulating in that district.
  c.     
  
    The
  
  copies of the notices, together with a certificate by the company as to the due
  
  publication thereof, shall be attached to the application.