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Lecture notes Business Law and Practice (LW1704) Directors and Secretaries Notes

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Lecture notes on directors and secretaries within companies - fourth year MLaw

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Directors and Secretaries


Directors
 Executive director employee that work for the company
 Managing director/chief executive
 Non-executive director (NED)  not employed by the company  advise on
directors pay and remuneration etc  typically in large companies
 Alternate director  Table A only
 Chairman
 De Jure  directors appointed by law following CA
 De Facto  acting as directors but weren't appointed under CA efficiently
 Shadow director  s.251(2) not a professional adviser  can influence the board
 Corporate directors  changes brought in under SBEE 2015  another company
that appoints a representative to the board  cease to exist under the act but this
hasn't been brought into force.


 Run the company on behalf of the shareholders  officer of the company
 May also be shareholders but this is not a general requirement  more likely to be
shareholders in smaller company's
 Agent (actual or apparent authority)  authority to act on behalf of the company.
 Employee
 Fiduciary  fiduciary duties to the company  statutory and common law positions
on this
 Directors can generally manage the company without reference to shareholders due
to a delegation of authority through the articles  there will be things they have to
go back to shareholders to do  stipulated in CA or articles
 General position  the directors have those powers delegated to them under the
company's articles to act on behalf of the company  directors are responsible for
the management of the company and can exercise all the company's powers  Art 3
MA/Art 70 TA
 Private companies  s.154(1)  statutory minimum of 1
 Public companies  S.154(2)  statutory minimum of 2
 s.155(1)  no statutory maximum
 At least 1 director must be a natural person (human)  changes to s.155 on
corporation directors not yet in force  corporate aren’t natural as they are other
companies
 Details of directors, members and secretary kept in statutory books available for
inspection
 s.157  minimum age of 16
 Directors named on incorporation on IN01 or subsequently appointed using AP01
 There are specific provisions for appointing directors dependent on articles
 Appointment
o MA  Art 17  Appoint a willing person by:
 OR by the shareholders
 Decision of the directors

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