Secretarial Audit

Section 204 of the Companies Act, 2013 (the Act) and Regulation 24A of SEBI (LODR), 2015 requires companies to obtain Secretarial Audit Report / Secretarial Compliance Certificates. Section 204(1) of the Act read with Rule 9 of the Companies (Appointment and Remuneration of Managerial Personnel) Rules, 2014 and Regulation 24A of SEBI (LODR), 2015 requires following kind of companies to annex with its annual report, a secretarial audit report, given by a company secretary in practice
- Every listed entity and its material unlisted subsidiaries incorporated in India;
- Every public company having a paid-up share capital of INR 50 crore or more;
- Every public company having a turnover of INR 250 crore or more;
- Every company having outstanding loans or borrowings from banks or public financial institutions of INR 100 crore