Lawgist165Number of directorships
(1) No person, after the commencement of this Act, shall hold office as a director, including any alternate directorship, in more than twenty companies at the same time:
Provided that the maximum number of public companies in which a person can be appointed as a director shall not exceed ten.
1[Explanation I ].-- For reckoning the limit of public companies in which a person can be appointed as director, directorship in private companies that are either holding or subsidiary company of a public company shall be included.
2[Explanation II.-- For reckoning the limit of directorships of twenty companies, the directorship in a dormant company shall not be included.]
(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), the members of a company may, by special resolution, specify any lesser number of companies in which a director of the company may act as directors.
(3) Any person holding office as director in companies more than the limits as specified in sub-section (1), immediately before the commencement of this Act shall, within a period of one year from such commencement,--
(a) choose not more than the specified limit of those companies, as companies in which he wishes to continue to hold the office of director;
(b) resign his office as director in the other remaining companies; and
(c) intimate the choice made by him under clause (a), to each of the companies in which he was holding the office of director before such commencement and to the Registrar having jurisdiction in respect of each such company.
(4) Any resignation made in pursuance of clause (b) of sub-section (3) shall become effective immediately on the despatch thereof to the company concerned.
(5) No such person shall act as director in more than the specified number of companies,--
(a) after despatching the resignation of his office as director or non-executive director thereof, in pursuance of clause (b) of sub-section (3); or
(b) after the expiry of one year from the commencement of this Act, whichever is earlier.
(6) If a person accepts an appointment as a director in contravention of sub-section (1), he shall be 3[liable to a penalty of five thousand rupees for each day after the first during which such contravention continues].
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1. The Explanation renumbered as Explanation I thereof by s. 53, ibid. (w.e.f. 9-2-2018).
2. Ins. by s. 53, ibid. (w.e.f. 9-2-2018
3. Subs. by Act 22 of 2019, s. 27, for "punishable with fine which shall not be less than five thousand rupees but which may extend to twenty-five thousand rupees for every day after the first during which the contravention continues" (w.e.f. 2-11- 2018).
- 149 Company to have Board of Director
- 150 Manner of selection of independent directors and maintenance of data bank of independent directors
- 151 Appointment of director elected by small shareholders
- 152 Appointment of director
- 153 Application for allotment of Director Identification Number
- 154 Allotment of Director Identification Number
- 155 Prohibition to obtain more than one Director Identification Number
- 156 Director to intimate Director Identification Numbe
- 157 Company to inform Director Identification Number to Registrar
- 158 Obligation to indicate Director Identification Number
- 159 Penalty for default of certain provision
- 160 Right of persons other than retiring directors to stand for directorship
- 161 Appointment of additional director, alternate director and nominee director
- 162 Appointment of directors to be voted individually
- 163 Option to adopt principle of proportional representation for appointment of directors
- 164 Disqualifications for appointment of director
- 165 Number of directorships
- 166 Duties of directors
- 167 Vacation of office of director
- 168 Resignation of director
- 169 Removal of director
- 170 Register of directors and key managerial personnel and their shareholding
- 171 Members‘ right to inspect
- 172 Punishment
