Section 386(2) provides that a company may appoint or employ a person as its manager if he is the manager or managing director of one, and not more than one other company. Moreover, such appointment or employment shall be 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.
However, the Central Government may, by order, permit any person to be appointed as a manager of more than two companies, if the Central Government is satisfied that it is necessary that the companies should, for their proper working, function as a single unit and have a common manager. Section 386 does not apply to an independent private company [section 388A]. Further, a Government Companies is also exempted from the provisions of this section.