Section 311 - Increase in remuneration of managing director on re-appointment or appointment after Act to require Government sanction. - Companies Act, 1956

Increase in remuneration of managing director on re-appointment or appointment after Act to require Government sanction. 311. In the case of a public company, or a private company which is a subsidiary of a public company, if the terms of any re-appointment or appointment of a managing or whole-time director, made after the commencement of this Act, purport to increase or have the effect of increasing, whether directly or indirectly, the remuneration which the managing or whole-time director or the previous managing or whole-time director, as the case may be, was receiving immediately before such re-appointment or appointment, the re-appointment or appointment [1] [shall not have any effect ____ (a) in cases where Schedule XIII is applicable, unless such increase is in accordance with the conditions specified in that Schedule; and (b) in any other case, unless it is approved by the Central Government] and shall become void if, and in so far as, it is disapproved by that Government. --------------------------------------- Notes:- [1] Substituted by the Companies (Amendment) Act, 1988, section 47, w.e.f. 15-6-1988, for the words "shall not have any effect unless approved by the Central Government".