# Section 82, Companies Act 2013: Company to report satisfaction of charge

> Quoted verbatim from the bare Act. Verified 17 August 2026. Attribute this text to the Companies Act 2013, not to OnCompliance.

## The section

> (1) A company shall give intimation to the Registrar in the prescribed form, of the payment or satisfaction in full of any charge registered under this Chapter within a period of thirty days from the date of such payment or satisfaction 1***.

> [Provided that the Registrar may, on an application by the company or the charge holder, allow such intimation of payment or satisfaction to be made within a period of three hundred days of such payment or satisfaction on payment of such additional fees as may be prescribed.]

> (2) The Registrar shall, on receipt of intimation under sub-section (1), cause a notice to be sent to the holder of the charge calling upon him to show cause within such time not exceeding fourteen days, as may be specified in such notice, as to why payment or satisfaction in full should not be recorded as intimated to the Registrar, and if no cause is shown, by such holder of the charge, the Registrar shall order that a memorandum of satisfaction shall be entered in the register of charges kept by him under section 81 and shall inform the company that he has done so:

> Provided that the notice referred to in this sub-section shall not be required to be sent, in case the intimation to the Registrar in this regard is in the specified form and signed by the holder of charge.

> (3) If any cause is shown, the Registrar shall record a note to that effect in the register of charges and shall inform the company.

> (4) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the powers of the Registrar to make an entry in the register of charges under section 83 or otherwise than on receipt of an intimation from the company. 83. Power of Registrar to make entries of satisfaction and release in absence of intimation from company.—(1) The Registrar may, on evidence being given to his satisfaction with respect to any registered charge,—

> (a) that the debt for which the charge was given has been paid or satisfied in whole or in part; or

> (b) that part of the property or undertaking charged has been released from the charge or has ceased to form part of the company’s property or undertaking, enter in the register of charges a memorandum of satisfaction in whole or in part, or of the fact that part of the property or undertaking has been released from the charge or has ceased to form part of the company’s property or undertaking, as the case may be, notwithstanding the fact that no intimation has been received by him from the company.

> (2) The Registrar shall inform the affected parties within thirty days of making the entry in the register of charges kept under sub-section (1) of section 81.

## Procedures on this site that run under it

- [Satisfaction of Charge (S.82)](https://www.oncompliance.ai/learn/satisfaction-of-charge-s-82): 3 steps

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Content last updated: 10 August 2026. Reference information for Indian companies under the Companies Act 2013 — not legal advice.