Revised Secretarial Standards on Meetings of the Board of Directors (SS-1) and General Meetings (SS-2) issued by ICSI
Author(s): City Air NewsRight to Left: Shri Arun Jaitley Union Minister of Finance, Corporate Affairs and Defence, CS (Dr.) Shyam Agrawal, President, ICSI, CS Pavan Kumar Vijay, Chairman Secretarial Standards Board of ICSI, CS Dinesh C.Arora,...
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Right to Left: Shri Arun Jaitley Union Minister of Finance, Corporate Affairs and Defence, CS (Dr.) Shyam Agrawal, President, ICSI, CS Pavan Kumar Vijay, Chairman Secretarial Standards Board of ICSI, CS Dinesh C.Arora, Secretary, ICSI and CS Ranjeet Kumar Pandey, Council Member, ICSI.
(SS-1) Secretarial Standards - I and ( SS-2 )Secretarial Standards-2 have been revised by ICSI and the same have been approved by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) vide it’s letter No. 1/3/2014-CL.I dated 14th June, 2017.
Secretarial Standards on Meetings of the Board of Directors (SS-1) and Secretarial Standards on General Meetings (SS-2) issued by The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) 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.
The revised Secretarial Standards SS-1 & SS-2 were released at the hands of Shri Arun Jaitley, Hon’ble Union Minister for Finance,Corporate Affairs and Defence.
On this occasion, CS(Dr.) Shyam Agrawal,President ICSI, said that, “benchmarking excellence in every sphere of corporate activities is the need of the day, Secretarial Standards strengthen board processes and General Meetings and promote shareholders’ democracy, facilitate better interpretation of Law and compliments Corporate Governance.”
The revised SS-1 and SS-2 shall be applicable to all the companies (except the exempted class of companies) w.e.f. 1st October, 2017 and accordingly all Board Meetings (including meetings of committees of Board) and General Meetings in respect of which Notices are issued on or after 1st October, 2017 need to comply with the revised SS-1 and SS-2. The existing SS-1 and SS-2 will be applicable to the Board Meetings and General Meetings held on or before 30th September, 2017.
Need for Revision in the Secretarial Standards
Revisions in Secretarial Standards (SS-1 & SS-2) have been made considering the following:
ü Companies (Amendment) Act, 2015 and amendments to the Rules notified by MCA
ü Exemption Notification(s) issued by MCA dated 5th June 2015
ü Relaxations aimed to further ease of doing business
ü Feedback received from members on practical difficulties that emerged during the first time implementation of Secretarial Standards
ü To remove the interpretation issues
ü Issues/suggestions received from different stakeholders
