(1) If a person, in contravention of section 142(1), purports to become, or purports to remain, a director of one or more companies he or she shall be guilty of a category 4 offence.

(2) An appointment of a person as a director of a company shall, if it contravenes section 142(1), be void.

(3) For the avoidance of doubt -

(a) each purported appointment, in excess of the limit (reckoned in accordance with section 142(3) to (7)) that is provided for by section 142(1), of a person as a director of a company shall constitute a separate contravention of section 142(1);

(b) an appointment, not in excess of the foregoing limit, of a person as a director of a company shall not, by virtue of this section, become unlawful, be rendered void or cease to have effect by reason of a subsequent appointment, in excess of that limit, of the person as a director of a company.

(4) If -