¹[48A. (1) No Insurance agent who solicits or procures life insurance business, and no employer of agents who procures life insurance business, shall be eligible to be or remain a director of any insurance company carrying on life insurance business unless he suspends such solicitation or procurement. (2) Any insurance agent or employer of agents who contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) shall cease to be a director and shall also be liable to the cancellation of his licence as insurance agent or, as the case may be, certificate as employer of agents.]