Companies Act, 1956
Sec 198 - Overall
maximum managerial remuneration and managerial remuneration in case
of absence or inadequacy of profits.
(1) The total managerial remuneration payable
by a public company or a private company which is a subsidiary of a public
company, to its directors and its manager in respect of any financial year
shall not exceed eleven per cent of the net profits of that company for that
financial year computed in the manner laid down in sections 349 and 350, except
that the remuneration of the directors shall not be deducted from the gross
profits :
(2) The percentage aforesaid shall be
exclusive of any fees payable to directors under sub-section (2) of section
309.
(3) Within the limits of the maximum
remuneration specified in sub-section (1), a company may pay a monthly
remuneration to its managing or whole-time director in accordance with the
provisions of section 309 or to its manager in accordance with the provisions
of section 387.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in
sub-section (1) to (3), but subject to the provisions of section 269, read with
Schedule XIII, if, in any financial year, a company has no profits or its
profits are inadequate, the company shall not pay to its directors, including
any managing or whole-time director or manager, by way of remuneration any sum
exclusive of any fees payable to directors under sub-section (2) of section
309, except with the previous approval of the Central Government.
Explanation.- For the purposes of
this section and sections 309, 310, 311, 381 and 387, " remuneration
" shall include
(a) any expenditure incurred by the company in
providing any rent-free accommodation, or any other benefit or amenity in
respect of accommodation free of charge, to any of the persons specified in
sub-section (1) ;
(b) any expenditure incurred by the company in
providing any other benefit or amenity free of charge or at a concessional rate
to any of the persons aforesaid ;
(c) any expenditure incurred by the company in
respect of any obligation or service, which, but for such expenditure by the
company, would have been incurred by any of the persons aforesaid ; and
(d) any expenditure incurred by the company to
effect any insurance on the life of, or to provide any pension, annuity or
gratuity for, any of the persons aforesaid or his spouse or child.