48B. 3[ Further provision regarding directors.
(1) An insurer specified in sub- clause (b) of clause (9) of section 2 and carrying on life insurance business shall not have a common director with another such insurer.
(2) The Central Government may, for such period, to such extent and subject to such conditions as it may specify, exempt from the operation of this section--
(a) any insurer, who is a subsidiary company of another insurer, or
(b) two or more insurers, for the purpose of facilitating their amalgamation or the transfer of business of one insurer to the other.