How are ROC forms processed?

Which centres process forms?

• The Central Registration Centre handles incorporation. A new private company still follows the private limited company route. The certificate comes from that centre.
• The Central Scrutiny Centre examines straight-through forms after the system has taken them on record. It is a scrutiny centre, not a security centre.
• The Centre for Processing Accelerated Corporate Exit handles applications to strike a company off.
• The Central Processing Centre handles other electronic forms that are sent to it with the fee.

What does the Central Processing Centre do?

From February 2024, the Central Processing Centre disposes of the electronic forms the rules assign to it. A straight-through form does not wait for an officer before it is taken on record. A form that is not straight-through is examined, and it can be sent back if the attachment or the particulars do not match the Act. Central filing does not change the section that required the form. A director change is still DIR-12. A registered-office change of a company is still INC-22, on the registered office page.

What stays with the local Registrar?

The jurisdictional Registrar keeps the powers the Act does not move to a central centre. That includes inspection, inquiry, and adjudication where those provisions apply. A form processed centrally can still be followed by a local compliance check. The annual forms of a private company remain the ones on the annual compliances page.

Does the company file somewhere else?

No. The form is still signed and uploaded on the MCA portal, with the fee the fee rules set for that form. There is no second portal for the central centre. A correction that no existing form can make is a different request, on the change request form page.

Frequently asked questions

Four questions cover the scrutiny centre, the local Registrar, timing, and incorporation.