Hello Professionals!!
As per section 164(2)(a), no person who is or has been a director of a
company which has not filed financial statements or annual returns for any continuous period of three financial years shall be eligible to be re-appointed as a director of that company or appointed in other company for a period of five years from the date on which the said company fails to do so. Under the 1956 Act, such disqualification was with respect to non-filing of annual accounts or annual returns of a public company. In case, all the directors disqualify, how the company would function. Some time period needs to be given to regularize the default.