Sec 297.

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Sanjeev (Querist)
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23 September 2013 Please let me know , if a public limited company (S) has sold goods to a private limited company (T) on prevailing market prices but on a credit terms of more than 30 but less than 90 days, will the central government approval be required by the Public Limited Company (S)under provisions of Sec 297. Waiting for a response from the learned experts here.

In the current case company (T) has made payments min 30 days after the invoice was raised by company (S)

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C A S.S.Agarwal, M.Com.,LL.B,

C A S.S.Agarwal, M.Com.,LL.B, (Expert)
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04 October 2013 As regards Section 297 is concerned it requires that if the sale and purchase is made at the market price and within credit allowing policies then no sanction is required. For your reference provisions are as under:

Section 297 in The Companies Act, 1956
297. Board' s sanction to be required for certain contracts in which particular directors are interested.
(1) Except with the consent of the Board of directors of a company, a director of the company or his relative, a firm in which such a director or relative is a partner, any other partner in such a firm, or a private company of which the director is a member or director, shall not enter into any contract with the company-
(a) for the sale, purchase or supply of any goods, materials or services; or
(b) after the commencement of this Act, for underwriting the subscription of any shares in, or debentures of, the company: 1[ Provided that in the case of a company having a paid- up share capital of not less than rupees one crore, no such contract shall be entered into except with the previous approval of the Central Government.]
(2) 2[ Nothing contained in clause (a) of sub- section (1) shall affect-
(a) the purchase of goods and materials from the company or the sale of goods and materials to the company, by any director, relative, firm, partner or private company as aforesaid for cash at prevailing market prices; or
(b) any contract or contracts between the company on one side and any such director, relative, firm, partner or private company on the other for sale, purchase or supply of an goods, materials and services in which either the company, or the director, relative, firm, partner or private company, as the case may be, regularly trades or does business: Provided that such contract or contracts do not relate to goods and materials the value of which, or services the cost which, exceeds five thousand rupees in the aggregate in any year comprised in the period of the contract or contracts; or
(c) in the case of a banking or insurance company any tran- saction in the ordinary course of business of such
1. Ins. Act 41 of 1974, s. 28 (w. e. f. 1- 2- 1975 ).
2. Subs. by Act 65 of 1960, s. 104, for subsection (2) to (5).
company with any director, relative, firm, partner or private company as aforesaid.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub- sections (1) and (2), a director, relative, firm, partner or private company as aforesaid may, in circumstances of urgent necessity, enter, without obtaining the consent of the Board, into any contract with the company for the sale, purchase or supply of any goods, materials or services even if the value of such goods or cost of such services exceeds five thousand rupees in the aggregate in any year comprised in the period of the contract; but in, such a case, the consent of the Board shall be obtained at a meeting within three months of the date on which the contract was entered into.
(4) Every consent of the Board required under this section shall be accorded by a resolution passed at a meeting of the Board and not otherwise; and the consent of the Board required under sub- section (1) shall not be deemed to have been given within the meaning of that sub- section unless the consent is accorded before the contract is entered into within three months of the date on which if was entered into.
(5) If consent is not accorded to any contract under this section, anything done in pursuance of the contract shall be voidable at the option of the Board.
(6) Nothing in this section shall apply to any case where the consent has been accorded to the contract before the commencement of the Companies Amendment Act 1960 .] (65 of 1960 .)