Companies Act, 2013
204.
Secretarial
audit for bigger companies.
1. Every listed company
and a company belonging to other class of companies as may be prescribed shall
annex with its Board’s report made in terms of sub-section (3 ) of
section 134, a secretarial audit report, given by a company secretary in
practice, in such form as may be prescribed.
2. It shall be the duty
of the company to give all assistance and facilities to the company secretary
in practice, for auditing the secretarial and related records of the company.
3. The Board of
Directors, in their report made in terms of sub-section (3 ) of section
134, shall explain in full any qualification or observation or other remarks
made by the company secretary in practice in his report under sub-section (1 ).
4. If a company or any
officer of the company or the company secretary in practice, contravenes the
provisions of this section, the company, every officer of the company or the
company secretary in practice, who is in default, shall be punishable with fine
which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which may extend to five lakh
rupees.