Companies Act, 1956
Sec 386 - Number of companies of which a person may be
appointed manager.
(1) No company shall, after the commencement
of this Act, appoint or employ any person as manager, if he is either the
manager or the managing director of any other company, except as provided in
sub-section (2).
(2) A company may appoint or employ a person
as its manager, if he is the manager or managing director of one, and not more
than one, other company:
Provided that such appointment or employment is
made or approved by a resolution passed at a meeting of the Board with the
consent of all the directors present at the meeting, and of which meeting and
of the resolution to be moved thereat, specific notice has been given to all
the directors then in India.
(3) Where, at the commencement of this Act,
any person is holding the office either of manager or of managing director in
more than two companies, he shall, within one year from the commencement of
this Act, choose not more than two of those companies as companies in which he
wishes to continue to hold the office of manager or managing director, as the
case may be; and the provisions of clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (1) and
of sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 276 shall apply mutatis mutandis in
relation to this case, as those provisions apply in relation to the case of a
director.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in
sub-sections (1) to (3), the Central Government may, by order, permit any
person to be appointed as a manager of more than two companies, if the Central
Government is satisfied that it is necessary that the companies should, for
their proper working, function as a single unit and have a common manager.