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company secretary
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A company which has a sole director is required by s. 283 to have another person as its company secretary.
▪ According to company secretary Lawrence Bland, the aim was to get rid of excess capacity.
▪ For company secretary they settled on a 34-year-old chartered accountant called Michael Henshaw.
▪ Having said that, the fact is that Mrs X is company secretary and therefore a company employee.
▪ He is a cost accountant and also acts as company secretary in respect of share issues, pensions and the like.
▪ Its chairman and company secretary are being questioned by police investigating allegations of fraud.
▪ The company secretary had simply passed on an oral instruction.
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Company secretary

A company secretary is a senior position in a private sector company or public sector organisation, normally in the form of a managerial position or above. In large American and Canadian publicly listed corporations, a company secretary is typically named a corporate secretary or secretary.

The company secretary is responsible for the efficient administration of a company, particularly with regard to ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements and for ensuring that decisions of the board of directors are implemented.

Despite the name, the role is not a clerical or secretarial one in the usual sense. The company secretary ensures that an organisation complies with relevant legislation and regulation, and keeps board members informed of their legal responsibilities. Company secretaries are the company’s named representative on legal documents, and it is their responsibility to ensure that the company and its directors operate within the law. It is also their responsibility to register and communicate with shareholders, to ensure that dividends are paid and to maintain company records, such as lists of directors and shareholders, and annual accounts.

In many countries, private companies have traditionally been required by law to appoint one person as a company secretary, and this person will also usually be a senior board member.

Usage examples of "company secretary".

It had one hundred ordinary shares, of which he held ninety-nine and his lawyer, Signor Ponti, held one plus the position of company secretary.

One thing I certainly was not, and that was the company secretary.

He doubled as company secretary and accountant, our policy being to keep down overheads, and he owned a slice of the firm which made him properly miserly and disinclined to build any administrative empires which did not add to profits.

The company rented it for ten months of the year at a nominal sum to Nigel Philiman and his wife Delia, who, it turned out, happened to be managing director and company secretary respectively of the holding company that had set up Zephyr.

She was company secretary there and I've had the most wonderful reference from the firm.