Thursday, April 23, 2015

Appointment of Company Secretary

Whole-time Company Secretary

As per Companies Act 2013 every company should appoint a whole time company secretary whose paid up share capital is not less than Rs. 5.00 Crores.

A whole time Company secretary of a company can be appointed as a non executive Director of another company. However a Company secretary can not be appointed as whole-time company secretary of another company.

A whole time Company secretary can be appointed as a non-executive director of the same company provided there are more than two directors in the company.


Secretarial Audit Report

As per sub-section (1) of section 204 of the Companies Act 2013 every company that attracts the below listed criteria should carry out a Secretarial Audit and submit the Secretarial Audit Report in form No.MR.3

  1. Every public company having a paid-up share capital of not less than Rs.50 crores or
  2. Every public company having a turnover of not less than Rs.250 Crores

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