Act Number: 47

Act Name: The Oil Industry (Development) Act, 1974

Year: 1974

Enactment Date: 1974-09-26

Long Title: An Act to provide for the establishment of a Board for the development of oil industry and for that purpose to levy a duty of excise on crude oil and natural gas and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

Department:

Section 10: Power of Board to appoint Directors of oil industrial concern.
    When the management of an oil industrial concern is taken over by the Board, the Board may, by order notified in the Official Gazette, appoint as many persons as it thinks fit to be the Directors of that concern and nothing in the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) or in any law or instrument relating to the concern, in so far as it makes, in relation to a Director, any provision for the holding of any share qualification, age limit, restrictions on the number of directorships, retirement by rotation or removal from office shall apply to any Director appointed by the Board under this section.
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