Format of Annual Secretarial Compliance Report by Company Secretaries for Stock Exchanges

Up-to-date Format of Annual Secretarial Compliance Report by Company Secretaries for submission to Stock Exchanges

MS Word Format of Annual Secretarial Compliance Report 

Regulation 24A of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 require that  every listed entity and its material unlisted subsidiaries incorporated in India shall undertake secretarial audit and shall annex with its annual report, a secretarial audit report, given by a company secretary in practice, in such form as may be prescribed with effect from the year ended March 31, 2019.

Accordingly, a listed entity and its material unlisted subsidiaries apart from Annual secretarial audit report are also required to submit an Annual secretarial compliance report to the stock exchanges within 60 days of the end of the financial year.

The format of the Annual Secretarial Compliance Report by Company Secretaries was mandated by SEBI in 2019. In view of the amendment of several SEBI Regulations required to be examined, ICSI has released the updated format of the Annual Secretarial Compliance Report for Stock Exchanges.

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