C2C1Part 10A company's directors
Pts. 1-39 (except for Pt. 7 and ss. 662-669), 45-47 extended (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 2
C2Chapter 1Appointment and removal of directors
Appointment
157Minimum age for appointment as director
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A person may not be appointed a director of a company unless he has attained the age of 16 years.
2
This does not affect the validity of an appointment that is not to take effect until the person appointed attains that age.
3
Where the office of director of a company is held by a corporation sole, or otherwise by virtue of another office, the appointment to that other office of a person who has not attained the age of 16 years is not effective also to make him a director of the company until he attains the age of 16 years.
4
An appointment made in contravention of this section is void.
5
Nothing in this section affects any liability of a person under any provision of the Companies Acts if he—
a
purports to act as director, or
b
acts as a shadow director,
although he could not, by virtue of this section, be validly appointed as a director.
6
This section has effect subject to section 158 (power to provide for exceptions from minimum age requirement).
Pts. 1-39 modified (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EC) No. 2157/2001, Art. AAA1(3) (as inserted by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 97 (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))