Q.As per Section 173 of the Companies Act, 2013, the gap between two consecutive Board Meetings should not exceed:
(A) 60 days
(B) 90 days
(C) 120 days
(D) 180 days

The law spaces out Board Meetings across the year rather than letting a company cluster them all together and then leave the Board unconsulted for months.

Section 173 of the Companies Act, 2013 requires every company to hold a minimum of 4 Board Meetings in each calendar year. Alongside this minimum count, the Act also imposes a spacing requirement: the gap between any two consecutive Board Meetings must not exceed 120 days. This dual requirement — a minimum number of meetings AND a maximum permissible gap — ensures that Board oversight is spread evenly across the year, rather than a company technically satisfying the "4 meetings a year" rule by holding all of them bunched together in a short period and then leaving several months with no Board scrutiny at all. Among the given options, 120 days is the figure prescribed by the Act.

Students sometimes confuse the 120-day Board Meeting spacing rule with the 15-month maximum gap allowed between two AGMs — these are different meetings governed by different sections (173 for Board Meetings, 96 for AGMs) with different numeric limits.