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Guidance Note on Secretarial Standard on Meetings of the Board of Directors (SS-1) sets out the explanations, procedures and practical aspects in respect of the provisions contained in revised SS-1 (effective from 1st October, 2017) to facilitate compliance thereof by the stakeholders.
Notice shall specify the serial no., day, date, time and full address of the venue of the meeting. Meeting may be convened at any time and place, on any day. Notice is required to be given even if meeting is held on pre-determined date or interval.
To facilitate ease of doing business, a minimum time period is provided for preserving proof of sending by the company. The queries of stakeholders regarding period of maintenance of such records now get solved by this amendment as the discretion is given to the Board of Directors to decide the period of retention of such records, in any case not less than 3 years from the date of the meeting.
It was intended to apply the provisions of SS-1 to the committees constituted by the Board under the Act and not to various other committees constituted under the other laws/Regulations. The amendment in the definition is made accordingly, to reflect the intention.
We all are aware that the Secretarial Standards (SS) has been introduced by The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) w.e.f. 1st July, 2015 and the same got its authentication under section 118(10) of the Companies Act, 2013 (‘Act’). Time and again, there were modifications, alterations and amendments in the Companies Act, 2013 by […]
Revised Secretarial Standard – 2 General Meeting is applicable to all General Meetings of all companies incorporated under the Act except One Person Company (OPC) in which there is only one Director on its Board and a company licensed under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013 or corresponding provisions of any previous enactment thereof.
The Standard is applicable to the Meetings of Board of Directors of all companies incorporated under the Act except One Person Company (OPC) in which there is only one Director on its Board.
Secretarial Standards on Meetings of the Board of Directors (SS-1) and General Meetings (SS-2) were approved by the Central Government under Section 118(10) of the Companies Act, 2013 on 10th April, 2015 and were published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part III -Section 4 on 23rd April, 2015 vide ICSI Notification No. (1) SS of 2015, making them effective from 1st July, 2015.
Following is the text of the revised Secretarial Standard-2 (SS-2) on General Meetings, issued by the Council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and approved by the Central Government. Adherence by a company to this Secretarial Standard is mandatory, as per the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013.
The following is the text of the Revised Secretarial Standard-1 (SS-1) on Meetings of the Board of Directors, issued by the Council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and approved by the Central Government.
