08 June 2009
No. Brother's Daughter is not a "Relative" under section 6 and /schedule IA of the Companies Act,1956. The "relatives" in the aforesaid section include as follows:
Relative outside the preview of section 6 and schedule IA of the Companies Act,1956 can not be consideed as relative for the purpose of companies act, 1956
08 June 2009
Agree with Vipual section 6 read with schedule IA of Cos Act, 1956 gives exhaustive list of relative. hence brother's daughter not included