The Companies (Donations to National Funds) Act, 1951
# THE COMPANIES (DONATIONS TO NATIONAL FUNDS) ACT, 1951
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 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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SECTIONS

1. Short title and extent.
2. Definitions.
3. Power of companies to make donations to certain National Funds.
4. Repeal of Act 35 of 1948.

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# THE COMPANIES (DONATIONS TO NATIONAL FUNDS) ACT, 1951
 ACT NO. 54 OF 1951[1]

[17th October, 1951.]

# An Act to enable companies to make donations to National funds.

BE it enacted by Parliament as follows:—

**1. Short title and extent.—(1) This Act may be called the Companies (Donations to National**

Funds) Act, 1951.

(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir*.

**2. Definitions.—In this Act,—**

(a) “company” means a company as defined in section 2 of the companies Act, and includes a

company deemed to be incorporated and registered under that Act by virtue of section 2B thereof;

(b) “the Companies Act” means the Indian Companies Act, 1913 (7 of 1913).

**3. Power of companies to make donations to certain National Funds.—Any company may,**

notwithstanding anything contained in the companies Act or in any other law for the time being in force
regulating the affairs thereof, and notwithstanding that the memorandum or articles of association of the
company do not enable it so to do, by an extraordinary resolution passed in accordance with the
provisions contained in section 81 of the Companies Act, authorise the making of donations to the
Gandhi National Memorial Fund or the Sardar Vallabhbhai National Memorial Fund, or to any other
Fund established for a Charitable purpose which by reason of its national importance has been approved
by the Central Government for the purposes of this section.

4. [Repeal of Act 35 of 1948.]—Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1957 (36 of 1957), s. 2

_and_ _Schedule I._

1. Extended to the Union territory of Pondicherry by Act 26 of 1968, s. 3 and Schedule.
*. Vide notification No. S.O. 3912(E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu

and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.

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