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Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 · Part B · Chapter 11

Section 307 Multiple directorships

(1)
The fact that a person holds more than one directorship shall not derogate from his fiduciary duties to each company, including a duty not to use the property, opportunity or information obtained in the course of the management of one company for the benefit of the other company, or to his own or other person’s advantage.
(2)
Subject subsection (3), a person shall not be a director in more than five public companies.
(3)
Any person who is a director in more than five public companies shall, at the next annual general meeting of the companies after the expiration of two years from the commencement of this Act, resign from being a director from all but five of the companies.
(4)
Any person who acts as a director of a public company in contravention of the provisions of this section is liable to a daily penalty in such amount as the Commission shall specify in its regulations and shall refund to each of the companies every remuneration and allowances paid to him as a director in each of the companies.
Cite as: Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020, section 307

Amended since the gazette

The Business Facilitation Act 2023 changed this section. The text above is the 2020 gazette text. See what changed.

What this section means

From the guide: Directors’ duties under CAMA 2020: good faith, conflicts and care

  • A person may not be a director in more than five public companies (section 307(2)).
  • A person who breaks this faces a daily penalty set by the Commission and must refund the remuneration and allowances paid to him by each company (section 307(4)).

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Source: Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 (Act No. 3 of 2020), Official Gazette No. 124, Lagos, 10 August 2020. General information, not legal advice.