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Part VII · Management and Administration Registered Office

187. Duty of directors to act in good faith and in the interests of company

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

A person exercising powers or performing duties as a director of a company shall act in good faith, and subject to subsection (2), in what that person believes to be in the interests of the company.

(2)

A director of a company which is a wholly owned subsidiary of another company may, if expressly permitted to do so by the company’s articles, act in a manner which he believes is in the interest of that other company even though it may not be in the interests of the company of which he is a director.

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Part VIII

Amalgamations

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Part IX

Compromises with Creditors

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Part X

Approval of Arrangements, Amalgamations, and Compromises by Court

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Part XI

Provisions Relating to Offshore Companies

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Part XII

Winding Up

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Part XIII

Administrators Appointment of Administrator

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Part XIV

Floating Charges

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Part XV

Receivers and Managers

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Part XVI

Registrar-General of Companies and Registration Appointment of Officers

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Part XVII

Application of Act to Existing Companies

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Part XVIII

Overseas Companies

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Part XIX

Advisory Commission

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Part XX

Companies Disputes Board

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Part XXI

Offences Miscellaneous Offences

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Part XXII

Miscellaneous Prohibition of Partnership with More Than Twenty Members

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Part XXIII

Repeals and Amendments

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Schedules