Company Secretary

 Responsible for:

• convening and providing administration for annual general meetings (AGMs): for example, producing agendas, taking minutes, conveying decisions and handling meeting correspondence.
• providing legal, financial and/or strategic advice during and outside of meetings.
• advising directors and members of the senior leadership team on corporate governance matters.
• keeping up to date with regulatory or statutory changes and policies that might affect the organisation.
• ensuring that policies are up to date and are approved.
• communicating with external professionals involved in corporate governance, such as auditors.
• in public companies, acting as a point of contact and building good relationships with shareholders.
• implementing processes or systems to help ensure good management of the organisation or compliance with legislation.

The secretary must be a natural person

• of full age and capacity;
• be ordinarily resident in Mauritius;
• have consented to act as secretary; and
• have the relevant qualification.

(a) a law practitioner, a legal consultant, a law firm, a member of one of the bodies referred to in section 198(1);, a member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of the United Kingdom or a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of United Kingdom; or

(b) a member of a professional association of company secretaries approved by the Minister under section 111(2) of the Companies Act 1984 or by the Minister under subsection (2).