Md / ceo and company secretary to be key managerial personne

CS,CA F,Numrologi TusharSampat (CS CA F Numerologist Astrologer Graphologist Face reader Vastu Expert)   (85930 Points)

20 December 2011  

 

MD / CEO and Company Secretary to be Key Managerial Personnel (KMP), as per Cos Bill 2011, as introduced in Lok Sabha. CFOs has not been brought in the KMP bracket. Clause 203 of the Bill states that Every company belonging to such class or classes of companies as may be prescribed shall have the following whole-time key managerial personnel,— (i) managing director, or Chief Executive Officer or manager and in their absence, a whole-time director; and (ii) company secretary.

Provided further that whole-time key managerial personnel holding office in more than one company at the same time on the date of commencement of this Act, shall, within a period of six months from such commencement, choose one company, in which he wishes to continue to hold the office of key managerial personnel:

Provided also that a company may appoint or employ a person as its managing director, if he is the managing director or manager of one, and of not more than one, other company and such appointment or employment is made or approved by a resolution passed at a meeting of the Board with the consent of all the directors present at the meeting and of which meeting, and of the resolution to be moved thereat, specific notice has been given to all the directors then in India. In fact this proviso resembles Section 316 of the existing law.

Further, as per Sub-Clause (4) of 203 if the office of any whole-time key managerial personnel is vacated, the resulting  vacancy shall be filled-up by the Board at a meeting of the Board within a period of six months from the date of such vacancy. As per sub-clause (5) if a company contravenes the provisions of this section, the company shall be punishable with fine which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which may extend to five lakh rupees and every director and key managerial personnel of the company who is in default shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees and where the contravention is a continuing one, with a further fine which may extend to one thousand rupees for every day after the first during which the contravention continues.