COMPANY SECRETERIAL & LEGAL

All limited companies must have a company secretary. The company secretary of a private limited company needs no formal qualifications, but it is important for the directors to ensure, that the secretary, is a person who appears to them to have the proper knowledge and experience to carry out the functions of company secretary.

As the secretary is an officer of the company, they may be criminally liable for defaults committed by the company. For example failure to file documents and forms within a specified time, any change in the details of the company's directors & secretary and the company's annual return.

The company secretary usually undertakes the following duties:

• Maintaining the statutory registers These are:


• The register of members
• The register of directors and secretaries
• The register of directors' interests
• The register of charges &
• For public companies only, the register of interests in shares.


• Ensuring that statutory forms are filed promptly
• Providing members and auditors with notice of meetings
• Sending the Registrar copies of resolutions and agreements
• Supplying a copy of the accounts to every member of the company, every debenture holder and every person who is entitled to receive notice of general meetings
• Keeping, or arranging for the keeping, of minutes of directors' meetings and general meetings
• Ensuring that people entitled to do so can inspect company records
• Custody and use of the company seal.

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