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Qualifications of secretary of public limited company.
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236.—It shall be the duty of the directors of a public limited company to take all reasonable steps to secure that the secretary (or each joint secretary) of the company is a person who appears to them to have the requisite knowledge and experience to discharge the functions of secretary of the company and who—
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(a) on the commencement of this section held the office of secretary of the company; or
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(b) for at least three years of the five years immediately preceding his appointment as secretary held the office of secretary of a company; or
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(c) is a member of a body for the time being recognised for the purposes of this section by the Minister; or
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(d) is a person who, by virtue of his holding or having held any other position or his being a member of any other body,appears to the directors to be capable of discharging those functions.
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