Constitution of Stakeholders Relationship Committee under Section 178(5) of Companies Act 2013

     

Constitution of Stakeholders Relationship Committee under Section 178(5) of Companies Act 2013

Section 178(5) of the Companies Act 2013 provides that the Board of directors of a company which consists of more than one thousand shareholders, debenture-holders, deposit-holders and any other security holders at any time during a financial year shall constitute a Stakeholders Relationship Committee consisting of a chairperson who shall be a non-executive director and such other members as may be decided by the Board. Section 178 (6) provides that the Stakeholders Relationship Committee shall consider and resolve the grievances of security holders of the company.

The chairperson of each of the committees constituted under this section or, in his absence, any other member of the committee authorised by him in this behalf shall attend the general meetings of the company.

In case of any contravention of the provisions of this section, the company shall be punishable with fine which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which may extend to 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 one year or with fine which shall not be less than twenty-five thousand rupees but which may extend to one lakh rupees, or with both:

Provided that non-consideration of resolution of any grievance by the Stakeholders Relationship Committee in good faith shall not constitute a contravention of this section.

Explanation.—The expression ‗‗senior management‘‘ means personnel of the company who are members of its core management team excluding Board of Directors comprising all members of management one level below the executive directors, including the functional heads.

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