A person can not hold the director shift of more componyies than ... Companies
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According to Section 165 of Companies Act, 2013, from 1st April 2014, a person cannot hold directorship in more than 20 Companies and out of these 20 companies, he/she cannot be Director in more than 10 Public Companies. For this purpose, holding or subsidiaries of private companies shall be taken as public.
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According to Section 165 of Companies Act, 2013, from 1st April 2014, a person cannot hold directorship in more than 20 Companies and out of these 20 companies, he/she cannot be Director in more than 10 Public Companies. For this purpose, holding or subsidiaries of private companies shall be taken as public.
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165. Number 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.
Explanation.— 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) 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 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.