Section - 311 - Companies Act, 1956

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

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

[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.