Registry entry

India Company Incorporation — One Person Company (SPICe+ Part A & Part B, Form INC-32)

Reserve a company name and incorporate a One Person Company (OPC) in India through the integrated SPICe+ (Simplified Proforma for Incorporating Company Electronically Plus) web form on the MCA21 portal, administered by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) under the Companies Act, 2013 and the Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014. SPICe+ combines what were previously separate filings — name reservation (Part A), incorporation with allotment of Corporate Identification Number (CIN) and Director Identification Number (DIN) (Part B, Form INC-32), and PAN/TAN allotment — into a single form; it is the closest Indian analogue to a single-founder LLC formation, which is why this document is the GB counterpart-style scoped reference: a sole individual forming an OPC having equity share capital, who is the company's only subscriber to the Memorandum of Association and only director, is an Indian citizen resident in India, does not yet hold a Director Identification Number (the common case for a first-time founder — SPICe+ itself allots the DIN), and nominates one other Indian-citizen-resident individual under Section 3 of the Companies Act, 2013 as required for every OPC. Private (non-OPC) companies, Public companies, Producer companies, Section 8 (not-for-profit) companies, Nidhi companies, Part I LLP-to-company conversions, companies not having share capital, multiple share classes, non-individual/foreign subscribers, more than one company director, and the AGILE-PRO-S linked web form (GSTIN, EPFO, ESIC, PTEC/PTRC, Shops & Establishment registration, and bank account opening) are all out of scope — see VERIFICATION.md. Does not submit the application; the live MCA21 portal (mca.gov.in) is always authoritative.

Registry entry

in/mca/company-incorporation-spice-plus

Jurisdiction
India · national
Version
1.0.0
Verification
draft
Authority
Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India (MCA21 portal), under the Companies Act, 2013

GovSchema spec v0.3

Authoritative source SPICe+ Part A (Name Reservation) and SPICe+ Part B / Form INC-32 (Simplified Proforma for Incorporating Company Electronically Plus), pursuant to sections 4, 7, 8(1), 12, 152 and 153 of the Companies Act, 2013

Machine access

Schema document
registry/in/mca/company-incorporation-spice-plus/1.0.0/schema.jsonapplication/schema+json
Verification record
registry/in/mca/company-incorporation-spice-plus/1.0.0/VERIFICATION.mdtext/markdown
Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id

Field reference

124 fields across 8 steps, read from the published schema.json — names, types, requiredness, and validation as the document states them. The live government form remains the authoritative source.

Name reservation (SPICe+ Part A)

  • proposedName1 string required

    Proposed name for the One Person Company. Must include the suffix '(OPC) Private Limited' (e.g. 'ABC (OPC) Private Limited'). No abbreviation 'PVT'/'PVT.'/'(P)' is allowed, and 'LTD'/'LTD.'/'ltd'/'ltd.' is not allowed. Non-ASCII characters are not permitted.

    length: 1–75
  • proposedName2 string optional

    An optional second proposed name, used if the first choice is rejected on the resemblance/undesirability check. Same naming rules as proposedName1 apply.

    length: 0–75
  • nicCode1 string required

    Five-digit National Industrial Classification 2008 code identifying the company's primary industrial activity, selected via CRC's NIC search window. Up to three NIC codes may be selected in total; this one is the primary Industrial Classification the user is prompted to designate.

    pattern
  • nicCode2 string optional

    Industry sub-class (NIC 2008 code) — additional (optional)

    pattern
  • nicCode3 string optional

    Industry sub-class (NIC 2008 code) — additional (optional)

    pattern

Structure of the company and capital

  • aoaEntrenched boolean required

    Whether the Articles of Association contain entrenchment provisions (Section 5, Companies Act 2013) requiring a higher threshold than a special resolution to amend certain articles.

  • entrenchmentArticleCount integer optional

    Must be greater than zero and less than or equal to 88 for a Private OPC.

    range: 1–88
  • hasShareCapital boolean required

    This document models only the 'having share capital' branch (the common case for an OPC formed to carry on business with equity ownership). 'Not having share capital' (a company limited by guarantee) is out of scope — see VERIFICATION.md.

    enum: true
  • equityShareClassDescription string optional

    Label for the single class of equity shares modelled by this document (e.g. 'Equity'). Scoped to one class; multiple share classes are out of scope.

    length: 1–100
  • authorizedEquityShares integer optional

    Value entered must be greater than zero. Total authorized share capital is computed by the system as authorizedEquityShares × nominalValuePerEquityShare and is not itself collected as a separate input.

    range: 1–∞
  • subscribedEquityShares integer optional

    Must be greater than zero and cannot exceed authorizedEquityShares. Equals the sole subscriber's shareholding for an OPC.

    range: 1–∞
  • nominalValuePerEquityShare number optional

    Must be the same value for both the authorized-capital and subscribed-capital columns.

    range: 0.01–∞

Address of the company

  • correspondenceAddressLine1 string required

    Correspondence address — Line 1

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • correspondenceAddressLine2 string optional

    Correspondence address — Line 2

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • correspondenceAddressPinCode string required

    Correspondence address — Pin code

    patternclassification: pii
  • correspondenceAddressAreaLocality string required

    Correspondence address — Area/Locality

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • correspondenceAddressCity string required

    Correspondence address — City

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • correspondenceAddressDistrict string required

    Correspondence address — District

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • correspondenceAddressState string required

    Correspondence address — State/UT

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • companyPhoneNumber string optional

    Company phone number (with STD code)

    length: 0–20
  • companyMobileNumber string required

    Verified on the live portal by a one-time password sent to this number; the OTP itself is a runtime verification step, not applicant-supplied form data, so it is not modelled as a separate field.

    pattern
  • companyEmail string required

    Verified on the live portal by a one-time password sent to this address; the OTP itself is a runtime verification step, not applicant-supplied form data, so it is not modelled as a separate field.

    length: 0–254
  • addressIsRegisteredOffice boolean required

    This document models only the common 'Yes' case (the correspondence address given above doubles as the registered office from day one). 'No' (a distinct registered office collected separately) is out of scope — see VERIFICATION.md.

    enum: true
  • registeredOfficeLongitude number optional

    Must correspond to the pin code given in the correspondence/registered address.

    range: -180–180
  • registeredOfficeLatitude number optional

    Must correspond to the pin code given in the correspondence/registered address.

    range: -90–90
  • registrarOfCompaniesOffice string required

    Name of the office of the Registrar of Companies in which the proposed company is to be registered

    length: 1–200

Sole subscriber-cum-director particulars

  • founderFirstName string required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — first name

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • founderMiddleName string optional

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — middle name

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • founderSurname string required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — surname

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • founderFatherFirstName string required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — father's first name

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • founderFatherMiddleName string optional

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — father's middle name

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • founderFatherSurname string required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — father's surname

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • founderGender enum required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — gender

    enum: male | female | transgenderclassification: pii
  • founderDateOfBirth date required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — date of birth

    classification: sensitive-pii
  • founderNationality enum required

    An OPC's sole subscriber-cum-director and its nominee must both be Indian citizens resident in India (Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014, Rule 3), so this document restricts the enum to 'india'.

    enum: india
  • founderPlaceOfBirth string required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — place of birth

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • founderOccupationType enum required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — occupation type

    enum: 7 values
  • founderAreaOfOccupation enum required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — area of occupation

    enum: it | others
  • founderAreaOfOccupationOtherDescription string optional

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — area of occupation, if 'Others'

    length: 1–200
  • founderEducationalQualification enum required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — educational qualification

    enum: masters | others
  • founderEducationalQualificationOtherDescription string optional

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — educational qualification, if 'Others'

    length: 1–200
  • founderPan string required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — Income-tax PAN

    patternlength: 0–10classification: sensitive-pii
  • founderMobileNumber string required

    Verified on the live portal by a one-time password; the OTP itself is a runtime verification step, not modelled as a separate field.

    pattern
  • founderEmail string required

    Verified on the live portal by a one-time password; the OTP itself is a runtime verification step, not modelled as a separate field.

    length: 0–254
  • founderPermanentAddressLine1 string required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — permanent address, Line 1

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • founderPermanentAddressLine2 string optional

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — permanent address, Line 2

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • founderPermanentAddressPinCode string required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — permanent address, Pin code

    patternclassification: pii
  • founderPermanentAddressAreaLocality string required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — permanent address, Area/Locality

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • founderPermanentAddressCity string required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — permanent address, City

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • founderPermanentAddressDistrict string optional

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — permanent address, District

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • founderPermanentAddressState string required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — permanent address, State/UT

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • founderPermanentAddressPhone string optional

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — permanent address, phone (with STD/ISD code)

    length: 0–20
  • founderPresentAddressSameAsPermanent boolean required

    This document models only the common 'Yes' case. 'No' (a distinct present address collected separately) is out of scope — see VERIFICATION.md.

    enum: true
  • founderDurationOfStayYears integer required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — duration of stay at present address, years

    range: 0–∞
  • founderDurationOfStayMonths integer required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — duration of stay at present address, months

    range: 0–11
  • founderIdentityProofType enum required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — identity proof document

    enum: voters_identity_card | passport | driving_license | aadhaar
  • founderIdentityProofNumber string required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — identity proof document number

    length: 1–30classification: sensitive-pii
  • founderResidentialProofType enum required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — residential proof document

    enum: voters_identity_card | passport | driving_license | aadhaar
  • founderResidentialProofNumber string required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — residential proof document number

    length: 1–30classification: sensitive-pii
  • founderCitizenOfIndia boolean required

    Must be true: OPC eligibility (Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014, Rule 3) is restricted to a natural person who is an Indian citizen.

    enum: true
  • founderResidentInIndia boolean required

    Must be true: OPC eligibility (Rule 3) is restricted to a natural person resident in India (stayed in India for a period of not less than 120 days during the immediately preceding financial year).

    enum: true
  • founderDesignation enum required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — designation

    enum: director | managing_director | whole_time_director | nominee_director
  • founderCategory enum required

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — category

    enum: promoter | professional | independent | nominee
  • founderBoardRole enum optional

    Sole subscriber-cum-director — board role

    enum: chairman | executive_director | non_executive_director

OPC nomination

  • nomineeFirstName string required

    Nominee — first name

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • nomineeMiddleName string optional

    Nominee — middle name

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • nomineeSurname string required

    Nominee — surname

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • nomineeFatherFirstName string required

    Nominee — father's first name

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • nomineeFatherMiddleName string optional

    Nominee — father's middle name

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • nomineeFatherSurname string required

    Nominee — father's surname

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • nomineeGender enum required

    Nominee — gender

    enum: male | female | transgenderclassification: pii
  • nomineeDateOfBirth date required

    Nominee — date of birth

    classification: sensitive-pii
  • nomineeNationality enum required

    An OPC's sole subscriber-cum-director and its nominee must both be Indian citizens resident in India (Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014, Rule 3), so this document restricts the enum to 'india'.

    enum: india
  • nomineePlaceOfBirth string required

    Nominee — place of birth

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • nomineeOccupationType enum required

    Nominee — occupation type

    enum: 7 values
  • nomineeAreaOfOccupation enum required

    Nominee — area of occupation

    enum: it | others
  • nomineeAreaOfOccupationOtherDescription string optional

    Nominee — area of occupation, if 'Others'

    length: 1–200
  • nomineeEducationalQualification enum required

    Nominee — educational qualification

    enum: masters | others
  • nomineeEducationalQualificationOtherDescription string optional

    Nominee — educational qualification, if 'Others'

    length: 1–200
  • nomineePan string required

    Nominee — Income-tax PAN

    patternlength: 0–10classification: sensitive-pii
  • nomineeMobileNumber string required

    Verified on the live portal by a one-time password; the OTP itself is a runtime verification step, not modelled as a separate field.

    pattern
  • nomineeEmail string required

    Verified on the live portal by a one-time password; the OTP itself is a runtime verification step, not modelled as a separate field.

    length: 0–254
  • nomineePermanentAddressLine1 string required

    Nominee — permanent address, Line 1

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • nomineePermanentAddressLine2 string optional

    Nominee — permanent address, Line 2

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • nomineePermanentAddressPinCode string required

    Nominee — permanent address, Pin code

    patternclassification: pii
  • nomineePermanentAddressAreaLocality string required

    Nominee — permanent address, Area/Locality

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • nomineePermanentAddressCity string required

    Nominee — permanent address, City

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • nomineePermanentAddressDistrict string optional

    Nominee — permanent address, District

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • nomineePermanentAddressState string required

    Nominee — permanent address, State/UT

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • nomineePermanentAddressPhone string optional

    Nominee — permanent address, phone (with STD/ISD code)

    length: 0–20
  • nomineePresentAddressSameAsPermanent boolean required

    This document models only the common 'Yes' case. 'No' (a distinct present address collected separately) is out of scope — see VERIFICATION.md.

    enum: true
  • nomineeDurationOfStayYears integer required

    Nominee — duration of stay at present address, years

    range: 0–∞
  • nomineeDurationOfStayMonths integer required

    Nominee — duration of stay at present address, months

    range: 0–11
  • nomineeIdentityProofType enum required

    Nominee — identity proof document

    enum: voters_identity_card | passport | driving_license | aadhaar
  • nomineeIdentityProofNumber string required

    Nominee — identity proof document number

    length: 1–30classification: sensitive-pii
  • nomineeResidentialProofType enum required

    Nominee — residential proof document

    enum: voters_identity_card | passport | driving_license | aadhaar
  • nomineeResidentialProofNumber string required

    Nominee — residential proof document number

    length: 1–30classification: sensitive-pii
  • nomineeConsentAndDeclaration boolean required

    Combines the nominee's consent to become a member of the company on the subscriber's death/incapacity with their declaration of Indian citizenship/residency, absence of prior conviction or disqualification under company/LLP law in the last five years, that they are not already a nominee in any other OPC, and that they will comply with Rule 3(3)'s eligibility criteria within the prescribed period. Modelled as one combined field per this registry's convention for a single-signature declaration block (cf. in/eci/voter-registration's declarationAndConsent).

  • nomineeDigitallySigned boolean required

    Nominee — to be digitally signed by nominee

Stamp duty

  • stampDutyState string required

    State or union territory in respect of which stamp duty is paid or to be paid

    length: 1–100
  • stampDutyPaidElectronically enum required

    Whether stamp duty is to be paid electronically through MCA21 system

    enum: yes | no | not_applicable
  • stampDutyTotalAmountPaid number optional

    Manual (non-MCA21-electronic) stamp duty payment on the SPICe+/MOA/AOA documents, evidenced by physical stamp papers/franking/challan.

    range: 0–∞
  • stampDutyModeOfPayment enum optional

    Mode of payment of stamp duty already paid

    enum: manual | electronic
  • stampDutyVendorName string optional

    Name of vendor/treasury/authority who collected/embossed the stamp duty

    length: 1–200
  • stampDutyPurchaseDate date optional

    Date of purchase of stamps/stamp paper or payment of stamp duty

PAN and TAN allotment

  • panAreaCode string required

    Jurisdictional codes for the PAN allotted through this integrated SPICe+ filing, based on the registered office address.

    length: 1–20
  • panAoType string required

    PAN jurisdiction — AO type

    length: 1–20
  • panRangeCode string required

    PAN jurisdiction — Range code

    length: 1–20
  • panAoNumber string required

    PAN jurisdiction — AO number

    length: 1–20
  • tanAreaCode string required

    TAN jurisdiction — Area code

    length: 1–20
  • tanAoType string required

    TAN jurisdiction — AO type

    length: 1–20
  • tanRangeCode string required

    TAN jurisdiction — Range code

    length: 1–20
  • tanAoNumber string required

    TAN jurisdiction — AO number

    length: 1–20
  • sourceOfIncome enum required

    Source of Income

    enum: business_or_profession | capital_gains | house_property | other_source | no_income
  • businessProfessionCode string optional

    Business/Profession code

    length: 1–20

Declaration and professional certification

  • nameAndRegistrationDeclaration boolean required

    Combines the director's declaration that the proposed name was checked against the MCA/LLP register and registered trademarks and complies with the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950 and is not offensive; that all Companies Act 2013 requirements relating to DIN allotment and company registration have been complied with; that the company will not commence business until required sectoral-regulator approvals (RBI, SEBI, etc.) are obtained; and that the registered office is capable of receiving communications at the address given at §4A. Modelled as one combined field per this registry's convention for a single-signature declaration block.

  • directorDisqualificationDeclaration boolean required

    Declares the proposed director(s) are not restrained/disqualified/removed under Companies Act 2013 ss.164/169, not a proclaimed offender, and not already allotted a DIN under s.154.

  • borderingCountryNationalSecurityClearance boolean required

    If true, security clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs must be attached (see the borderingCountrySecurityClearanceDocument entry in documents[]). founderNationality is restricted to 'india' in this document, so this declares 'No' for the sole scoped scenario; retained as a field because it is a printed, always-asked declaration on the form regardless of the subscriber's own nationality.

  • directorDigitalSignature boolean required

    To be digitally signed by director

  • professionalCertificationCategory enum required

    Certifying professional — category

    enum: company_secretary | chartered_accountant | cost_accountant | advocate
  • professionalMembershipCategory enum optional

    Not applicable to an Advocate signatory.

    enum: associate | fellow
  • professionalMembershipOrCertificateNumber string required

    Membership number for a chartered accountant/cost accountant in whole-time practice, or certificate of practice number for a company secretary in whole-time practice.

    length: 1–30
  • professionalPan string required

    Certifying professional — Income-tax PAN

    patternlength: 0–10classification: sensitive-pii
  • professionalDigitalSignature boolean required

    Certifying professional — digitally signed

Verification record

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice.

Current claim

  • status: draft
  • verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
  • verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-03

draft, not verified, because no live walkthrough of the MCA21 portal wizard was performed — see "What was not done" below. This schema is sourced from the MCA's own downloadable instruction kits plus a very recent Wayback Machine capture of the live Adaptive Form HTML itself.

Sources examined

  • Document (id, version): in/mca/company-incorporation-spice-plus / 1.0.0
  • Spec version: GovSchema 0.3.0
  • Authority: Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India (MCA21 portal), under the Companies Act, 2013 and the Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014.
  • Direct access attempts to mca.gov.in all failed with HTTP 403 (curl, WebFetch, and a headless Playwright pass with a realistic desktop user agent all returned Akamai's Access Denied edge page, errors.edgesuite.net). This is an IP/ASN-level WAF block, not a JavaScript bot-challenge — the same class of permanent block previously hit at nzta.govt.nz and i-kfz.de (see gov474-dmv-business-formation- vertical-and-xfa-extraction in prior-cycle notes) — so a real browser from this environment's egress does not defeat it.
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20230331084143/https://www.mca.gov.in/content/dam/mca-aem-forms/instructionkits/Instruction%20Kit_SPICe+Part%20A.pdf — "Instruction Kit for webform SPICe+ Part A (Name Reservation)" (11 pages). Retrieved via curl against the Wayback Machine mirror (HTTP 200, 499,364 bytes), text-extracted with a scratch npm install of pdfjs-dist (legacy build). Supplies the name-reservation field-level instructions (proposed name rules, NIC-code search, fee schedule) referenced by proposedName1/proposedName2/nicCode1..3.
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20230714092841/https://www.mca.gov.in/content/dam/mca-aem-forms/instructionkits/Instruction%20Kit_SPICe%20+%20Part%20B.pdf — "Instruction Kit for Form No. SPICe+ Part B" (19 pages). Retrieved and decoded the same way (HTTP 200, 439,593 bytes). Supplies the numbered field-level validation rules quoted in several descriptions (e.g. entrenchmentArticleCount's 88-article cap for a Private OPC, the authorized/subscribed-capital comparison rule, OPC eligibility criteria under Rule 3, DIN-count caps).
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20260109225642/https://www.mca.gov.in/content/forms/af/mca-aem-forms/spice-part-b/spice-plus-part-b.html — a Wayback Machine snapshot of the live SPICe+ Part B Adaptive Form HTML itself, captured 2026-01-09 (six months before this review), retrieved via curl (HTTP 200, 5,730,099 bytes as served by web.archive.org). Unlike the two instruction kits (which only narrate "fields that require detailed instructions," per their own stated scope), this capture's rendered DOM text contains the complete field-by-field structure of the actual portal form: every section heading, numbered sub-section (1(a), 3A(i), 4A/4B/4C, 5, 6A/6B/6C, 7A/7B/7C/7D, 8A/8B, 9A/9B, 10, 11, 12, 13), every printed field label, every dropdown's enumerated options, and every mandatory-field asterisk. This is this document's primary field-level source — every field name, label, enum option, and sourceRef in this schema is drawn from this capture's text (a Python regex-stripped rendering of the archived HTML's visible DOM text, saved to a scratch file and read section-by-section; no client-side JSON/AEM guide metadata was present in the archived capture, only the server-rendered text nodes).
  • Web search confirmed OPC eligibility (Section 3, Companies Act 2013; Rule 3, Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014 — natural person, Indian citizen, resident in India, one nominee required) and the AGILE-PRO-S linked-form scope (GSTIN/EPFO/ESIC/PTEC-PTRC/Shops & Establishment/bank account) cited in this schema's top-level description and "Out of scope" section below — used only to state those rules in prose, not as a field-level source.

What was not done — the one honest gap

No live walkthrough of the MCA21 portal's SPICe+ wizard was performed. mca.gov.in returned HTTP 403 (Akamai WAF) for every access path attempted in this environment — direct curl, WebFetch, and a headless Playwright browser session with a realistic desktop Chrome user agent. This is consistent with prior-cycle findings for the same domain (GOV-887: "MCA21 (mca.gov.in) 403-blocks direct WebFetch/curl, the same class of block hit at nzta.govt.nz/i-kfz.de"). Because the block operates at the IP/ASN level rather than via a JavaScript challenge, a real browser did not change the outcome — this rules out the ie/irishimmigration-style bot-check-defeat technique for this particular source.

A future review with different network egress, or MCA account credentials for an authenticated session, should drive the live wizard directly to confirm on-screen field ordering, client-side validation masks, and whether the OTP-verification steps noted in this schema's field descriptions (companyMobileNumber, companyEmail, and each person's mobile/email) match the modelled fields exactly.

Test run performed

Phase 4 of this cycle's research brief calls for a test run with valid mock data. Since the live wizard could not be reached, this was performed as a structural test: a scratch Node script (/tmp/spice-test/mocktest.mjs, not checked into the registry) implements the GSP-0013 condition grammar (equals/in/all/any/not) and resolves visibleWhen/requiredWhen against three independent mock OPC incorporations:

  1. A retail-trading OPC with a single founder and nominee, e-stamp duty paid electronically through MCA21, and a Company Secretary as the certifying professional.
  2. The same OPC but with an entrenched AOA (entrenchmentArticleCount gated field), manually-paid (non-electronic) stamp duty (four conditionally-required fields), and an Advocate as the certifying professional (exercising professionalMembershipCategory's requiredWhen — not required for an Advocate).
  3. The same OPC with sourceOfIncome set to no_income (so businessProfessionCode is correctly not required) and both optional second/third NIC codes and a second proposed name supplied.

All three scenarios: (a) supply every field that is required given its resolved visibility, (b) pass each field's own validation (pattern/enum/min-max), and (c) contain no reference to a field name absent from fields[] across every visibleWhen, requiredWhen, documents[] requiredWhen, and steps[].fields entry. All three passed on the first run; no schema defect was found by this test.

The schema also validates against both the zero-dependency structural checker (tools/validate.mjs) and the full JSON Schema draft 2020-12 meta-schema via ajv (tools/validate-ajv.mjs).

Modelling decisions

  • Scoped to a One Person Company (OPC), not a Private/Public/Producer/ Section 8/Nidhi company or a Part I LLP-to-company conversion. SPICe+ is one generic web form spanning every Indian company type; modelling every branch in one document would require enumerating each type's distinct subscriber/capital/nomination rules. OPC is chosen as the closest Indian analogue to a single-founder LLC formation — the same scoping instinct gb/companies-house/company-incorporation-in01 used picking "the common case where one person is the sole director, the sole initial shareholder/subscriber" for GB's IN01. An OPC's structural minimum (one individual subscriber-cum-director, one mandatory nominee, one share class) also keeps the subscriber/director particulars in §§6–7 to a single block (§7B) instead of the form's repeating non-individual/multiple- subscriber tables.
  • typeOfCompany is not modelled as a field. The live form's dropdown offers Private (OPC)/Private/Public/Producer/Part I Others/etc., but since this document's scope is fixed to OPC, the dropdown's other branches would never be exercised — same precedent as gb/companies-house/company- incorporation-in01, which likewise omits a "type of company" field because its scope is fixed to private-limited-by-shares.
  • Founder modelled as "not having valid DIN" (§7B), not "having valid DIN" (§7A). A first-time solo founder incorporating their first company does not yet hold a Director Identification Number — SPICe+ itself is how DIN gets allotted (Companies Act 2013 s.7 read with s.153/154). The "having DIN" branch (§7A) is the case of someone who already directs another company and is out of scope.
  • founderNationality/nomineeNationality enums restricted to ["india"], and founderCitizenOfIndia/founderResidentInIndia fixed to true via validation.enum: [true]. Rule 3, Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014 restricts OPC eligibility (as subscriber or nominee) to a natural person who is an Indian citizen resident in India. Rather than model these as free enums that could accept a value this document's scope can't otherwise support (a non-Indian OPC subscriber is not legally possible), the constraint is encoded directly in validation, following this registry's convention of using enum: [true]/enum: [<value>] to pin a field to its only legally-possible value for the documented scope (see also hasShareCapital, addressIsRegisteredOffice, and each person's PresentAddressSameAsPermanent below).
  • hasShareCapital, addressIsRegisteredOffice, and each person's PresentAddressSameAsPermanent are real printed form fields, pinned to their common-case value (true) via validation.enum: [true], rather than omitted. Unlike typeOfCompany (a branch-selector this document's scope makes moot), these three are genuine yes/no questions every OPC filer answers, and the false branch in each case leads to real, additional on-screen fields (a company limited by guarantee's member-count table at §3B; a registered office distinct from the correspondence address; a present address distinct from the permanent one) that this version does not model. Pinning the field with validation.enum: [true] keeps the question itself faithful to the source form while making the scope boundary machine-checkable rather than only prose-documented.
  • Preference share capital (§3A(ii)) not modelled. Optional and rare for a newly-incorporated OPC (which typically issues only equity shares); omitted along with the "not having share capital"/§3B member-count branch.
  • Entrenchment sub-table (Sr. No./Article number/description, under §1(b)) not modelled beyond the boolean gate and article count. A rare edge case (custom AOA entrenchment clauses) whose repeating-row detail would add a disproportionate number of fields for a first version; the gating boolean and numeric cap are kept since they are simple, always- visible-on-the-form fields.
  • Duration-of-stay-less-than-one-year → previous-residence-address branch (§7B(i), §8B) not modelled. An edge case (a founder or nominee who moved within the last year); DurationOfStayYears/Months are collected, but the conditional previous-address sub-block is out of scope for this version.
  • PAN/TAN jurisdiction codes (panAreaCode/AoType/RangeCode/AoNumber and their TAN counterparts) modelled as free-form strings, not enums. These are official area/AO/range codes assigned by the Income Tax Department based on the registered office's jurisdiction (a large, address-dependent lookup table not published in either instruction kit or captured in the Adaptive Form snapshot), so no closed enum could be sourced faithfully; left as validated strings per this registry's practice of not inventing enum values the source does not publish.
  • Multi-paragraph declaration blocks (§12 "Declaration", §13 "Declaration and Certification by Professional") each combined into one or two boolean fields (nameAndRegistrationDeclaration, directorDisqualificationDeclaration), rather than one field per sentence, since each block is attached to a single digital signature on the live form — the same discipline used for in/eci/voter-registration's declarationAndConsent and nz/dia/passport-renewal-adult's combined declaration fields.
  • OTP verification (mobile/email, throughout §§4A, 7B, 8B) not modelled as separate fields. The OTP itself is a live-session runtime verification step performed against the value already collected in the mobile/email field, not a further piece of applicant-supplied data — documented in each affected field's description instead.
  • borderingCountryNationalSecurityClearance retained even though this document's founderNationality is pinned to india. This declaration is a printed, always-asked yes/no on the live form regardless of the signing director's own nationality (it exists to cover cases where a different proposed director is a bordering-country national), so it remains a real field; its true branch requires the borderingCountrySecurityClearanceDocument attachment (documents[], requiredWhen).
  • Comb/derived/system-computed amounts omitted. Total classified/ unclassified authorized share capital (§3A) and the §9B(i) auto-computed stamp-duty-payable table are system-calculated from other collected values (number of shares × nominal value; authorized capital → fee schedule) rather than independently applicant-supplied, so — consistent with how this registry omits purely derived/prefilled fields elsewhere — they are not modelled; only the inputs that drive those computations are.
  • AGILE-PRO-S, eMoA/eAoA, INC-9, and URC-1 linked web forms not modelled. SPICe+ Part B's submission enables access to these as separate linked forms (GSTIN/EPFO/ESIC/PTEC-PTRC/Shops & Establishment registration and bank-account opening via AGILE-PRO-S; electronic MOA/AOA; declaration-in-lieu-of-affidavit via INC-9; Part I company conversion via URC-1) — each is its own webform with its own field set, out of scope for this version. Per Annexure A of the SPICe+ Part B instruction kit, e-MoA/ e-AoA is used automatically (not a manual attachment) whenever total subscribers ≤ 7, which is always true for an OPC's single subscriber, so documents[] omits a manual MOA/AOA attachment entry for this scope.

Out of scope

  • Private (non-OPC), Public, Producer, Section 8, and Nidhi companies, and Part I LLP-to-company conversions — each has distinct subscriber- count minimums, capital-structure rules, and/or additional licensing fields (e.g. Section 8's license application) not modelled here.
  • Non-individual (corporate) subscribers and multiple individual subscribers/directors (SPICe+ Part B §§6A, 6B, 6C, 7A, 7C, 7D) — an OPC has exactly one subscriber-cum-director by definition, so this document models only §7B.
  • Companies not having share capital (§3B) and preference share capital (§3A(ii)).
  • A registered office address distinct from the correspondence address, and a present address distinct from the permanent address for the founder or nominee — both pinned to their common-case true value (see Modelling decisions).
  • AGILE-PRO-S, eMoA/eAoA, INC-9, and URC-1 linked forms (GSTIN, EPFO, ESIC, PTEC/PTRC, Shops & Establishment registration, bank account opening) — separate webforms with their own field sets; a natural candidate for a future GovSchema document once SPICe+ Part B itself is promoted past draft.
  • Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) non-debt-instruments declarations (printed throughout §§6–7 for subscribers subscribing to shares) — not applicable given founderNationality/nomineeNationality are pinned to india.
  • Resubmission flow (a rejected/Resubmission Required SRN resubmitted with corrections) — this document models only the initial-submission data shape.

Re-verification

Per the practice's cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-03 (6 months). Re-check whether mca.gov.in is reachable from a different network egress or via an authenticated MCA account session, and attempt a live walkthrough of the SPICe+ Part A + Part B wizard; if successful, promote status to verified and confirm the Adaptive Form snapshot used here has not since changed field structure.

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