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Section 38: Reciprocity

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

(1) Where any country, notified by the Central Government in this behalf in the Official Gazette, prevents persons of Indian domicile from becoming members of any institution similar to the Institute established under this Act or from practising the profession of Company Secretaryship or subjects them to unfair discrimination in that country, no subject of any such country shall be entitled to become a member of the Institute or practise the profession of Company Secretaries in India.

(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), the Council may prescribe the conditions, if any, subject to which foreign qualifications relating to Company Secretaryship shall be recognised for the purposes of entry in the [Register of members].

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ActThe Company Secretaries Act, 1980
Section38
Marginal noteReciprocity
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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

  • substituted, Act 12 of 2022. . Subs. by Act 12 of 2022, s. 102, for “Register” (w.e.f. 10-5-2022).

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