Companies Act, 1956
Sec 317 - Managing director not to be appointed for
more than five years at a time.
(1) No company shall, after the commencement
of this Act, appoint or employ any individual as its managing director for a
term exceeding five years at a time.
(2) Any individual holding at the commencement
of this Act the office of managing director in a company shall unless his term
expires earlier, be deemed to have vacated his office immediately on the expiry
of five years from the commencement of this Act.
(3) Nothing contained in sub-section (1) shall
be deemed to prohibit the re-appointment, re-employment, or the extension of
the term of office, of any person by further periods not exceeding five years
on each occasion:
Provided that any such re-appointment,
re-employment or extension shall not be sanctioned earlier than two years from
the date on which it is to come into force.
(4) This section shall not apply to a private
company unless it is a subsidiary of a public company.