Section 177 — Companies Act 1993: Ratification of certain actions of directors

177 Ratification of certain actions of directors (1) The purported exercise by a director or the board of a company of a power vested in the shareholders or any other person may be ratified or approved by those shareholders or that person in the same manner in which the power may be exercised. (2) The purported exercise of a power that is ratified under subsection (1) of this section is deemed to be, and always to have been, a proper and valid exercise of that power. (3) The ratification or approval under this section of the purported exercise of a power by a director or the board does not prevent the Court from exercising a power which might, apart from the ratification or approval, be exercised in relation to the action of the director or the board. (4) Nothing in this section limits or affects any rule of law relating to the ratification or approval by the shareholders or any other person of any act or omission of a director or the board of a company.