law: Companies Act, 2013 
  403.
  
    Fee
  
  for filing, etc. 
  
  1.      Any document,
  
  required to be submitted, filed, registered or recorded, or any fact or
  
  information required or authorised to be registered under this Act, shall be
  
  submitted, filed, registered or recorded within the time specified in the
  
  relevant provision on payment of such fee as may be prescribed:
  Provided
  
  that any document, fact or information may be submitted, filed, registered or
  
  recorded, after the time specified in relevant provision for such submission,
  
  filing, registering or recording, within a period of two hundred and seventy
  
  days from the date by which it should have been submitted, filed, registered or
  
  recorded, as the case may be, on payment of such additional fee as may be
  
  prescribed:
  Provided
  
  further that any such document, fact or information may, without prejudice to
  
  any other legal action or liability under the Act, be also submitted, filed,
  
  registered or recorded, after the first time specified in first proviso on
  
  payment of fee and additional fee specified under this section.
  2.      Where a company fails
  
  or commits any default to submit, file, register or record any document, fact
  
  or information under sub-section (1 ) before the expiry of the period
  
  specified in the first proviso to that sub-section with additional fee, the
  
  company and the officers of the company who are in default, shall, without
  
  prejudice to the liability for payment of fee and additional fee, be liable for
  
  the penalty or punishment provided under this Act for such failure or default.