(English) The Competent Company Secretary: Best Practices of Corporate Secretary under CA2016 by Mah Li Chen (MAICSA Chartered Secretary)

INTRODUCTION

The Companies Act 2016 demands for a competent Company Secretary who understands his or her key role in a company to ensure compliance with the Companies Act 2016 and so a good understanding of this key role in order to carry out the duties and responsibilities is of utmost important.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The seminar is aimed at giving participants will get have an overall understanding of their respective roles, responsibilities and liabilities as Company Secretaries under the Companies Act 2016 including the Corporate Governance Code 2017 to better equip them with the necessary skill-set to carry out their duties professionally and responsibly to ensure full compliance.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Directors, Company secretaries, corporate advisors, governance professionals and corporate professionals, entrepreneurs, lawyers.

COURSE OUTLINES

• Qualification of Company Secretaries under the new regime;
• Appointment, re-appointment, resignation, removal and vacancy of office of Company Secretaries;
• Company Secretaries’ duties, responsibilities and liabilities under the Companies Act 2016;
• Disclosure requirements to Registrar of Companies;
• Special coverage on section 223 Companies Act 2016 - shareholders’ approval for disposal by directors of company’s undertaking or property;
• Introducing and step-by-step elimination rule on related party transactions under section 228 of the Companies Act 2016, the new and modified version of the former highly controversial section 132E of the Companies Act 1965;
• Enforcement and hefty fines and penalties of non-compliance and/or non-disclosure; and
• Director of a one person company and wholly owned subsidiary.