Appointment of directors to be voted individually
📚 Law Minded summary
At a general meeting, two or more directors cannot be appointed by a single resolution.
Each appointment is voted on separately, unless the members first agree unanimously to do it together. A resolution passed in breach of this is void.
It stops a Board being presented as a package, where members must accept an unwanted candidate to get a wanted one.
(1) At a general meeting of a company, a motion for the appointment of two or more persons as directors of the company by a single resolution shall not be moved unless a proposal to move such a motion has first been agreed to at the meeting without any vote being cast against it.
(2) A resolution moved in contravention of sub-section (1) shall be void, whether or not any objection was taken when it was moved.
(3) A motion for approving a person for appointment, or for nominating a person for appointment as a director, shall be treated as a motion for his appointment.
All sections in Chapter XI — Appointment and Qualifications of Directors