As per Section 5 of Indian Companies Act 2013 Articles of a Company may be prepared in the prescribed format. Provision in the Indian Companies Act 2013 regarding Articles of Association of Company is as under.
(1) The articles of a company shall contain the regulations for
management of the company.
(2) The articles shall also contain such matters, as may be
prescribed:
Provided that nothing prescribed in this sub-section shall be deemed
to prevent a company from including such additional matters in its
articles as may be considered necessary for its management.
(3) The articles may contain provisions for entrenchment to the
effect that specified provisions of the articles may be altered only
if conditions or procedures as that are more restrictive than those
applicable in the case of a special resolution, are met or complied
with.
(4) The provisions for entrenchment referred to in sub-section (3)
shall only be made either on formation of a company, or by an
amendment in the articles agreed to by all the members of the
company in the case of a private company and by a special resolution
in the case of a public company.
(5) Where the articles contain provisions for entrenchment, whether
made on formation or by amendment, the company shall give notice to
the Registrar of such provisions in such form and manner as may be
prescribed.
(6) The articles of a company shall be in respective forms specified
in Tables, F, G, H, I and J in Schedule I as may be applicable to
such company.
(7) A company may adopt all or any of the regulations contained in
the model articles applicable to such company.
(8) In case of any company, which is registered after the
commencement of this Act, in so far as the registered articles of
such company do not exclude or modify the regulations contained in
the model articles applicable to such company, those regulations
shall, so far as applicable, be the regulations of that company in
the same manner and to the extent as if they were contained in the
duly registered articles of the company.
(9) Nothing in this section shall apply to the articles of a company
registered under any previous company law unless amended under this
Act.