12.02. Advocate and Solicitor acting as company secretary
(1) An Advocate and Solicitor shall notify the Bar Council within one (1) month
of his first becoming a company secretary, or if he is already a company
secretary, within one (1) month of the coming into effect of this Ruling.
(2) He shall perform his role as a company secretary within his full-time
practice in a law firm.
(3) The fees for his secretarial work shall be paid to his law firm. The fees
prescribed by the Malaysian Institute of Chartered Secretaries are to be used as
a guide.
(4) He shall comply with the Etiquette Rules and all other applicable
laws and Rulings whilst acting as a company secretary.
(5) In his conduct as a company secretary, he shall be subject to all
disciplinary rules governing an Advocate and Solicitor.
(6) Where an Advocate and Solicitor is qualified to act as a company secretary
by virtue of his holding a valid practising certificate, he shall cease to act
as a company secretary when he ceases to practise as an Advocate and Solicitor,
or when he does not hold a valid practising certificate; and he shall, upon
ceasing to be a company secretary, notify the Bar Council within one (1) month
of such cessation.
(7) Any law firm providing secretarial service may describe itself as providing
company secretarial services on its letterhead.
(8) No Advocate and Solicitor is permitted to merely supervise a company
secretarial firm, unless his law firm handles the secretarial work and
secretarial fees are paid directly to the law firm.
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