06 February 2010
The Companies (Amendment )Act,1974 added two new sub sections,viz., 224(1B) and 224(1C), with a view to restricting the number of Companies in which a person can be appointed an an auditor. U can see the wordings of the query in section 224(1B).
07 February 2010
Section 224(1B)> On and from the financial year next following the commencement of the Companies (Amendment) Act, 1974 (41 of 1974), no company or its Board of directors shall appoint or reappoint any person who is in full-time employment elsewhere or firm as its auditor if such person or firm is, at the date of such appointment or re-appointment, holding appointment as auditor of the specified number of companies or more than the specified number of companies :
Explanation I : For the purposes of sub-sections (1B) and (1C), "specified number" means, - (a) in the case of a person or firm holding appointment as auditor of a number of companies each of which has a paid-up share capital of less than rupees twenty-five lakhs, twenty such companies; (b) in any other case, twenty companies, out of which not more than ten shall be companies each of which has a paid-up share capital of rupees twenty-five lakhs or more.