CHG-4 (satisfaction of charge)
The intimation a company gives the Registrar once a registered charge is paid or satisfied in full.
Payment or satisfaction in full
Counted from payment or satisfaction in full of a registered charge
- MCA
- MCA event filings
- CHG-4
- 2026-09-01
CHG-4 is due within 30 days of the payment or satisfaction in full of a registered charge. Guidance that gives 300 days is reading superseded text: the 300-day figure was replaced with 30 days by the Companies (Registration of Charges) Amendment Rules, 2018 of 5 July 2018. The Registrar may still allow up to 300 days on additional fee, but only on an application under the proviso to section 82(1).
Deadlines counted from an event
Within 30 days of the payment or satisfaction, under section 82(1) and rule 8(1) of the Charges Rules. The proviso to section 82(1) lets the Registrar allow the intimation up to 300 days on additional fee, on an application by the company or the charge-holder.
The rule
Within 30 days of the payment or satisfaction, under section 82(1) and rule 8(1) of the Charges Rules. The proviso to section 82(1) lets the Registrar allow the intimation up to 300 days on additional fee, on an application by the company or the charge-holder.
Who must comply
- Every company whose registered charge has been paid or satisfied in full
- The charge-holder, whom rule 8(1) also names as a person who may give the intimation
Statutory basis
Before you file
- Pay or otherwise satisfy the charge in full.
- Get the no-dues letter or release from the charge-holder.
- Confirm the date of payment or satisfaction. This date starts the 30-day window.
How to file
- Log in to the MCA21 V3 portal as a business user.
- Open Form CHG-4.
- Enter the charge identification number of the registered charge.
- Enter the date of payment or satisfaction in full.
- Attach the letter of satisfaction from the charge-holder.
- Sign the form with the digital signature of an authorised signatory.
- Pay the filing fee.
- Submit the form within 30 days of the payment or satisfaction.
- Answer the Registrar's show-cause notice to the charge-holder if one is issued under section 82(2).
- Collect the certificate of registration of satisfaction in Form CHG-5.
If you miss it
Section 86(1) sets one penalty for any default in Chapter VI, so a late CHG filing costs the same whichever form it was: ₹5 lakh on the company and ₹50,000 on every officer in default. It is a flat amount rather than a daily one, so it does not grow with the delay, but it also does not shrink for a filing that is one day late.
- Section 77(3) keeps an unregistered charge out of the liquidator's and any other creditor's reckoning, so the charge-holder's security fails at the moment it matters most
- Section 86(2) sends a person who wilfully files false or incorrect charge particulars, or suppresses material information, to section 447 fraud proceedings
Common questions
Is CHG-4 due in 30 days or 300 days?
Thirty. Rule 8(1) was substituted on 5 July 2018 and now reads 30 days. Our published rule still shows the old 300-day sub-rule alongside the current one, and so does a lot of secondary guidance, but the live rule is 30 days.
What if the 30 days have already passed?
Apply to the Registrar under the proviso to section 82(1) for up to 300 days on additional fee. Past that, the route is a condonation application to the Central Government in Form CHG-8 under section 87.
Does the Registrar notify the charge-holder?
Usually yes. Section 82(2) has the Registrar give the charge-holder up to fourteen days to show cause. That notice is not required where the intimation is in the specified form and signed by the charge-holder.