Board Resolution Format for General Authorisation

General authorisation means authorising someone to do something in general whenever the occasion or necessity arises to do that.

General authorisation may be given in favor of a director or an employee of the company to carry out certain activities when it is required to be done at any point of time in the future.

Following are templates of board resolution for giving general authority.

Draft Board Resolution for Giving General Authorisation

#. To authorise (Name of the Officer) to sign (document)

"RESOLVED THAT the consent of the board of directors of the company be and is hereby accorded in favor of (Name of the Officer), (Designation) to sign and execute the (name of the document) with the vendors/distributors as and when necessary.

RESOLVED FURTHER THAT (Name of the Officer), (Designation) be and is hereby authorised to do all such acts, deeds and things as may be necessary to give effect to the foregoing resolution."

#. To authorise (Name of the Officer) to (purpose of work)

"RESOLVED THAT (Name of the Officer), (Designation) be and is hereby authorised to carry out the following activities on behalf of the company as and when such situations arise:

1. .......................

2. .........................

3. ........................

RESOLVED FURTHER THAT (Name of the Officer), (Designation) be and is hereby authorised to do all such acts, deeds and things as may be necessary to give effect to the foregoing resolution."

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The Board of Directors may authorise certain officials as per their rank/cadre and functional areas to sign some of the very important documents of the company. This is generally called the delegation of powers of the board.

Sample Board Resolution for Authority to Sign

#. To authorise the officials to sign the documents

"RESOLVED THAT the following employees of the company be and is hereby authorised to sign and execute the following documents as and when necessary:

Sl. No.	Name of the Officer(s)	Designation	Authority	Type of Documents	Amount
1.	Ms. ABCD	Managing Director	Singly	Agreements & related documents – All Units	No limit
2.	Mr. XYZ	Whole-time Director	Singly	Agreements & related documents - ……… Unit	Up to Rs. ………
3.	Ms. MLN	GM-Finance	Singly	Agreements & related documents - ……… Unit	Up to Rs. ………
4.	Ms. MLN & Mr. XYZ	- do -	Jointly	Agreements & related documents - ……… Unit	Rs. ……… & above
5.	Mr. JKLM	GM-Operations	Singly	Tender documents	Up to Rs. ………..
6.	Mr. JKLM & Mr. XYZ	- do -	Jointly	Tender documents	Rs. …………. & above.

RESOLVED FURTHER THAT the above mentioned authorised signatories be and is hereby authorised to all such acts, deeds and things as may be necessary or incidental in this connection."