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Amendment of section 200 of Act of 1963 (avoidance of provisions exempting officers and auditors from liability).
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56.—Section 200 of the Act of 1963 is amended by renumbering that section as section 200(1) and by adding the following:
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“(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a company may purchase and maintain for any of its officers or auditors insurance in respect of any liability referred to in that subsection.
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(3) Notwithstanding any provision contained in an enactment, the articles of a company or otherwise, a director may be counted in the quorum and may vote on any resolution to purchase or maintain any insurance under which the director might benefit.
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(4) Any directors' and officers' insurance purchased or maintained by a company before the date on which the amendments made to this section by the Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Act 2003 came into operation is as valid and effective as it would have been if those amendments had been in operation when that insurance was purchased or maintained.
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(5) In this section a reference to an officer or auditor includes any former or current officer or auditor of the company, as the case may be.”.
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