(1) An Advocate and Solicitor shall notify the Bar Council within 1 month of his/her first becoming a company secretary, or if he/she is already a company secretary, within 1 month of the coming into effect of this Ruling.
(2) He/she shall perform his/her role as a company secretary within his/her full-time practice in a law firm.
(3) The fees for his/her secretarial work shall be paid to his/her law firm. The fees prescribed by the Malaysian Institute of Chartered Secretaries are to be used as a guide.
(4) He/she shall comply with the Etiquette Rules and all other applicable laws and Rulings whilst acting as a company secretary.
(5) In his/her conduct as a company secretary, he/she 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/her holding a valid practising certificate, he/she shall cease to act as a company secretary when he/she ceases to practise as an Advocate and Solicitor, or when he/she does not hold a valid practising certificate; and he/she shall, upon ceasing to be a company secretary, notify the Bar Council within 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/her law firm handles the secretarial work and secretarial fees are paid directly to the law firm.
(Updated as at 8 June 2015)