Section 26: Companies not to engage in Company Secretaryship.

The Company Secretaries Act, 1980Central Act · Act 56 of 1980

(1) No company, whether incorporated in India or elsewhere, shall practise as Company Secretaries.

[Explanation.-- For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the company shall include any limited liability partnership which has company as its partner for the purposes of this section.]

[(2) If any company contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1), then every director, manager, Secretary and any other officer who is knowingly a party to such contravention shall be punished on first conviction with fine which shall not be less than two lakh rupees but which may extend to ten lakh rupees, and on any subsequent conviction with fine which shall not be less than four lakh rupees but which may extend to twenty lakh rupees.].

Where this provision sits

Act	The Company Secretaries Act, 1980
Section	26
Marginal note	Companies not to engage in Company Secretaryship.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

inserted, Act 4 of 2012. . Explanation ins. by Act 4 of 2012, s. 3 (w.e.f. 8-1-2012)
substituted, Act 12 of 2022. . Subs by Act 12 of 2022, s. 98, for sub-section (2) (w.e.f. 10-5-2022).

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