OBLIGATION TO ABIDE LABOUR LAWS
SEBI LISTING AGREEMENT
Clause 49.
Clause 49.
Corporate Governance
(C) Other provisions as to Board and Committees
iii. The Board shall periodically review compliance reports of all laws applicable to the
company, prepared by the company as well as steps taken by the company to rectify
instances of non-compliances.
Section 2. subsection
(51) “key managerial personnel”,
in relation to a company, means—
(i) the Chief Executive Officer or
the managing director or the manager;
(ii) the company secretary;
(iii) the whole-time director;
(iv) the Chief Financial Officer;
and
(v) such other officer as may be
prescribed;
(59) “officer” includes any
director, manager or key managerial personnel or any person in accordance with whose
directions or instructions the Board of Directors or
any one or more of the directors
is or are accustomed to act;
Section 2. subsection
(60)
“officer
who is in default”, for the purpose of any provision
in this Act
which enacts
that an officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to any penalty or punishment by way of
imprisonment, fine or otherwise, means any of the
following officers of a company, namely:—
(i)
whole-time director;
(ii)
key managerial personnel;
(iii)
where there is no key managerial personnel, such director or directors
as specified by the Board in this
behalf and who has or have given his or their
consent in writing to the Board
to such specification, or all the directors, if no
director is so specified;
(iv)
any person who, under the immediate authority of the Board or any
key managerial personnel, is
charged with any responsibility including
maintenance, filing or
distribution of accounts or records, authorises, actively
participates in, knowingly
permits, or knowingly fails to take active steps to prevent, any
default;
(v) any person in accordance with
whose advice, directions or instructions the Board
of Directors of the company is accustomed to act, other than a person
who gives
advice to the Board in a professional capacity;
(vi) every director, in respect
of a contravention of any of the provisions of this Act, who is aware of such
contravention by virtue of the receipt by him of
any proceedings of the Board or
participation in such proceedings without objecting to the same, or where such
contravention had taken place with his
consent or connivance;
(vii) in respect of the issue or
transfer of any shares of a company, the share transfer agents, registrars and
merchant bankers to the issue or transfer;
Section 134
(5) The Directors’ Responsibility
Statement referred to in clause (c) of sub-section (3) shall state that—
(f) the directors had devised
proper systems to ensure compliance with the provisions of all applicable laws and that such systems were adequate and operating
effectively.
(8) If a company
contravenes
the provisions of this section, the company shall
be
punishable with
fine which shall not be less than fifty thousand rupees but
which may
extend to
twenty-five
lakh rupees and every
officer of
the company who is in default shall be punishable with
imprisonment
for
a term which may extend to three years or
with fine which
shall not
be less than fifty thousand rupees but which may extend to five
lakh rupees,
or with
both.
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