धारा 28B · Declaration of dividend

¹[28B. Declaration of dividend.--(1) No dividend shall be declared or paid by the Corporation for any financial year except out of the surpluses and profits referred to in sub-section (2) of section 28 (after excluding any amount representing unrealised gains, notional gains or revaluation of assets and any change in carrying amount of an asset or of a liability on measurement of the asset or the liability at fair value) for such year arrived at after providing for depreciation, or for any previous financial year or years arrived at after providing for depreciation and remaining undistributed, or out of both the aforesaid surpluses and profits:

Provided that no dividend shall be declared or paid by the Corporation from its reserves other than free reserves:

Provided further that no dividend shall be declared or paid by the Corporation unless any losses carried over from previous years and any depreciation not provided for in previous years are set off against the surpluses and profits referred to in sub-section (2) of section 28 for the financial year for which the dividend is proposed to be declared or paid.

(2) The Board may, during any financial year or at any time during the period from the close of a financial year till the holding of the annual general meeting for that financial year, declare interim dividend out of the surpluses and profits referred to in sub-section (2) of section 28 of the financial year for which such interim dividend is sought to be declared, or out of the surpluses and profits referred to in sub-section (2) generated in the current financial year till the close of the quarter preceding the date of declaration of such interim dividend:

Provided that in case the Corporation has incurred loss during the current financial year up to the close of the quarter immediately preceding the date of declaration of interim dividend, such interim dividend shall not be declared at a rate higher than the average of the dividends declared by the Corporation during the immediately preceding three financial years.

(3) The amount of the dividend, including interim dividend, shall be deposited in a scheduled bank in a separate account within five days from the date of declaration of such dividend.

(4) No dividend shall be paid by the Corporation in respect of any share of the Corporation except to the member in whose name such share is entered on the register of members referred to in section 5C, or to his order, or to his banker, and shall be payable in cash and not in stock or other form of value:

Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be deemed to prohibit the capitalisation of the surpluses and profits referred to in sub-section (2) of section 28 for the purpose of issuing fully paid-up bonus shares or paying up any amount for the time being unpaid on any share held by members:

Provided further that any dividend payable in cash may be paid by cheque or warrant or in any electronic mode to the member entitled to such payment.]