Meetings of Board 285.

BOARD TO MEET AT LEAST ONCE IN EVERY THREE CALENDAR MONTHS In the case of every company, a meeting of its Board of directors shall be held at least once in every three months and at least four such meetings shall be held in every year : Provided that the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that the provisions of this section shall not apply in relation to any class of companies or shall apply in relation thereto subject to such exceptions, modifications or conditions as may be specified in the notification. 286. NOTICE OF MEETINGS
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(1) Notice of every meeting of the Board of directors of a company shall be given in writing to every director for the time being in India, and at his usual address in India to every other director. (2) Every officer of the company whose duty it is to give notice as aforesaid and who fails to do so shall be punishable with fine which may extend to 1[one thousand] rupees.

287. QUORUM FOR MEETINGS (1) In this section (a) "total strength" means the total strength of the Board of directors of a company as determined in pursuance of this Act, after deducting therefrom the number of the directors, if any, whose places may be vacant at the time ; and (b) "interested director" means any director whose presence cannot, by reason of section 300, count for the purpose of forming a quorum at a meeting of the Board, at the time of the discussion or vote on any matter. (2) The quorum for a meeting of the Board of directors of a company shall be one-third of its total strength (any fraction contained in that one-third being rounded off as one), or two directors, whichever is higher : Provided that where at any time the number of interested directors exceeds or is equal to two-thirds of the total strength, the number of the remaining directors, that is to say, the number of the directors who are not interested present at the meeting being not less than two, shall be the quorum during such time.

Board's powers and restrictions thereon 291. GENERAL POWERS OF BOARD (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Board of directors of a company shall be entitled to exercise all such powers, and to do all such acts and things, as the company is authorised to exercise and do : Provided that the Board shall not exercise any power or do any act or thing which is directed or required, whether by this or any other Act or by the memorandum or articles of the company or otherwise, to be exercised or done by the company in general meeting : Provided further that in exercising any such power or doing any such act or thing, the Board shall be subject to the provisions contained in that behalf in this or any other Act, or in the memorandum or articles of the company, or in any regulations not inconsistent therewith and duly made thereunder, including regulations made by the company in general meeting. (2) No regulation made by the company in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the Board which would have been valid if that regulation had not been made. 292. CERTAIN POWERS TO BE EXERCISED BY BOARD ONLY AT MEETING (1) The Board of directors of a company shall exercise the following powers on behalf of the company, and it shall do

so only by means of resolutions passed at meetings of the Board : (a) the power to make calls on shareholders in respect of money unpaid on their shares ; 1[(aa) the power to authorise the buy-back referred to in the first proviso to clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 77A ;] (b) the power to issue debentures ; (c) the power to borrow moneys otherwise than on debentures ; (d) the power to invest the funds of the company ; and
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(e) the power to make loans : Provided that the Board may, by a resolution passed at a meeting, delegate to any committee of directors, the managing director, 2[***] the manager or any other principal officer of the company or in the case of a branch office of the company, a principal officer of the branch office, the powers specified in clauses (c), (d) and (e) to the extent specified in sub-sections (2), (3) and (4) respectively, on such conditions as the Board may prescribe : Provided further that the acceptance by a banking company in the ordinary course of its business of deposits of money from the public repayable on demand or otherwise and withdrawable by cheque, draft, order or otherwise, or the placing of moneys on deposit by a banking company, with another banking company on such conditions as the Board may prescribe, shall not be deemed to be a borrowing of moneys or, as the case may be, a making of loans by a banking company within the meaning of this section.