A No Objection Certificate is an undertaking approval, more like a legal certificate issued by an organisation, persons, an association, a loose-body of individuals, an institution, a cooperating housing society or a person specific, stating a clear intention of the subject not being a hindrance to any particular motive, which would be stated in the certificate.

The certificate would also contain any past criminal record or insolvency in certain cases. Though,an NOC is a customised letter in a legal layout, dependant on the case