Section 174
Assignment of office is not VALID
Prohibition on assignment of office by directors;
A director of any company shall not assign his office to any other
person and any such appointment shall be void ab-initio.
Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1),
The appointment by a director, with the approval of the board, of
an alternate or substitute director to act for him during his absence
from Pakistan of not less than ninety days, shall not be deemed to
be an assignment of office. (It means that it is allowed)
The alternate director appointed under sub-section (2) shall ipso
facto vacate office if and when the director appointing him returns
to Pakistan.