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Companies Act, 1973 (Act No. 61 of 1973)

Chapter IXA: Secretary for Public Companies

268E. Consent to act as Secretary, entries in Register of Directors and Officers and Lodging of Returns

 

 

1) A person who accepts an appointment as secretary shall sign and lodge with the company the prescribed form referred to in section 211 confirming such person's consent to act as secretary, or if a partnership or body corporate is appointed as secretary, the written consent of the partners or the directors of such partnership or body corporate to so act.

 

2) No person shall act as secretary and no appointment of secretary shall have legal force for the purposes of this Act or any other law, unless the prescribed form of consent has been lodged with the company and the company has complied with the provisions of sections 215 and 216.

 

3) The provisions of section 214 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the appointment of a secretary.