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Draft Guidelines for Issuing Secretarial Audit Report, Signing and Certification of Annual Return - ICSI

Posted Date : 12-Mar-2015 , 12:05:49 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR print Print
Draft Guidelines for Issuing Secretarial Audit Report, Signing and Certification of Annual Return - ICSI.

In exercise of the powers conferred by Clause (1) of Part II of the Second Schedule to the Company Secretaries Act, 1980 (56 of 1980), as amended by the Company Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 2006, the Council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India hereby issues the following guidelines in supersession of the Guidelines for Issuing Compliance Certificate and Signing of Annual Return issued by the Council on 27th November, 2007:-

1. A member of the Institute in practice who is entitled –

(i)        to issue Secretarial Audit Report pursuant to Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013 (Act No. 18 of 2013); and/or

(ii)       to sign / certify an Annual Return pursuant to Section 92 of the Companies Act, 2013 (Act No. 18 of 2013),

shall be deemed to be guilty of professional misconduct if he/she -
-  issues Secretarial Audit Report for more than five companies in a financial year; and/or
-   signs /certifies Annual Return for more than eighty companies in aggregate, in a financial year. -

Provided, however, that in the case of a firm of Company Secretaries, the ceiling of five/eighty companies as aforesaid would apply to each partner therein who is entitled to

(i)        to issue Secretarial Audit Report pursuant to Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013 (Act No. 18 of 2013); and/or

(ii)       to sign/certify an Annual Return pursuant to Section 92 of the Companies Act, 2013 (Act No. 18 of 2013).

2. These Guidelines shall come into effect from 1st April, 2015. - ICSI

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