Banking Act · 2024 Revised Edition · Part 7
63. Appointment of chairman and new board members
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Where the Authority has assumed control of the business of a bank in pursuance of section 59 and it has made a determination that the value to be realised from the bank’s assets is less than the bank’s liabilities, it may —
Authority
“Authority” means the Brunei Darussalam Central Bank established by the Brunei Darussalam Central Bank Order, 2010;
serve notice upon any person who at the time of such determination was serving as a director of the bank and its subsidiaries that he shall cease to be director thereof without any right
Banking to compensation, whereupon he shall cease to be a director of the bank and any agreement between him and the bank which provides for compensation in respect of services of directors of the bank shall be unenforceable in so far as it relates to such compensation; and
direct that either all former directors of the bank or, as the case may be, such former director or directors of the bank as may be specified in the direction, shall cease to be entitled to compensation, whether by way of pension or otherwise, in respect of their service as directors, whereupon any agreement between any former director and the bank which provides for any such compensation shall be unenforceable in so far as it relates to such compensation.
In the event of the Authority serving notice upon a director of a bank pursuant to subsection (1)(a), such member of the Authority as it may appoint shall by virtue of this section become chairman and a director of a newly constituted board of directors of the bank to be appointed by the
director
“director” includes any person occupying the position of director of a company, whatever the title of his office, and includes a person in accordance with whose directions or instructions the directors of a company are accustomed to act and an alternate or substitute director;
Authority.
Under subsection (2), the Authority shall appoint to the new board of directors not less than three persons but not more than twenty persons, and including at least two persons who, in the opinion of the
Authority, possess expertise in banking.
The Authority in exercise of its control of a bank pursuant to section 59 shall take such steps as necessary to appoint the chairman and directors appointed pursuant to subsections (2), (3) and (4) as chairman and directors of every subsidiary of the bank and for the purposes of this subsection the Authority shall be entitled to exercise all voting rights pertaining to issued shares in any subsidiary of the bank.
bank
“bank” means a company which carries on banking business and holds a licence granted under section 4 or 23, and includes all branches and offices in Brunei Darussalam of any such company for the purposes of this Act;
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Subject to sections 64(2), no fee or reward, financial or otherwise shall be paid by the bank to any director who is appointed under this section.
Notwithstanding his removal from office by subsection (1), every former director shall remain liable for all his acts and omissions in respect of the period while he was a director.
Terms defined in s 2
agreement
Defined · s 2“agreement” means an agreement whether formal or informal and whether express or implied;
Authority
Defined · s 2“Authority” means the Brunei Darussalam Central Bank established by the Brunei Darussalam Central Bank Order, 2010;
bank
Defined · s 2“bank” means a company which carries on banking business and holds a licence granted under section 4 or 23, and includes all branches and offices in Brunei Darussalam of any such company for the purposes of this Act;
director
Defined · s 2“director” includes any person occupying the position of director of a company, whatever the title of his office, and includes a person in accordance with whose directions or instructions the directors of a company are accustomed to act and an alternate or substitute director;
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