Companies Act, 2013
Chapter
XIII
Appointment
and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel
196.
Appointment
of managing director, whole-time director or manager.
1. No company shall
appoint or employ at the same time a managing director and a manager.
2. No company shall
appoint or re-appoint any person as its managing director, whole-time director
or manager for a term exceeding five years at a time:
Provided
that no re-appointment shall be made earlier than one year before the expiry of
his term.
1.
2.
3. No company shall
appoint or continue the employment of any person as managing director,
whole-time director or manager who —
a.
is
below the age of twenty-one years or has attained the age of seventy years:
Provided
that appointment of a person who has attained the age of seventy years may be
made by passing a special resolution in which case the explanatory statement
annexed to the notice for such motion shall indicate the justification for
appointing such person;
a.
b.
is
an undischarged insolvent or has at any time been adjudged as an insolvent;
c.
has
at any time suspended payment to his creditors or makes, or has at any time
made, a composition with them; or
d.
has
at any time been convicted by a court of an offence and sentenced for a period
of more than six months.
4. Subject to the
provisions of section 197 and Schedule V, a managing director, whole-time
director or manager shall be appointed and the terms and conditions of such
appointment and remuneration payable be approved by the Board of Directors at a
meeting which shall be subject to approval by a resolution at the next general
meeting of the company and by the Central Government in case such appointment
is at variance to the conditions specified in that Schedule:
Provided
that a notice convening Board or general meeting for considering such appointment
shall include the terms and conditions of such appointment, remuneration
payable and such other matters including interest, of a director or directors
in such appointments, if any:
Provided
further that a return in the prescribed form shall be filed within sixty days
of such appointment with the Registrar.
5. Subject to the
provisions of this Act, where an appointment of a managing director, whole-time
director or manager is not approved by the company at a general meeting, any
act done by him before such approval shall not be deemed to be invalid.