Company Secretary – Personal Checklist Before Accepting Appointment
To finalise my personal due diligence before accepting the role of
Company Secretary with your organization I would like to:
meet with
you and the other Directors
obtain...
Company secretary: Liability under the corporations act
Part 2D.4
of the Corporations Act prescribes in relation to a Company Secretary:
must be
appointed for a Public Company (and is optional for a Proprietary Company)
can...
Company secretaries – working in Australia
You have asked my
opinion on employing Mr Singh from India as Company Secretary.
A foreign trained Company Secretary can work and practice in
Australia, subject to...
Display company name
In response to your questions about displaying our new company name
on the office door, I comment hereunder (with some general information about
different offices, etc).
Display...
Incorporation of a pty ltd company
Summarised hereunder
are the actions and requirements to incorporate and register a new (Proprietary
Limited) company subsidiary:
Form 201 needs to be completed and the
incorporation fee paid...
Company formation by foreign shareholder
Below is
my response to your comments/questions.
The basic
form of company in Australia is a ‘proprietary company limited by shares’ (ie, it
has “Pty Ltd” at the...
Company documents – signing by one director
You have asked if the director/s of various of the group companies
may sign company documents on their own with or without another director or...
Companies limited by guarantee
Generally, companies comprise 2 main types: proprietary (private)
and public companies – see section 112 of the Corporations Act – either of which
may be limited...
Committee evaluation
In my experience good corporate governance – for all companies,
whether stock exchange listed or not – includes establishing audit and other
committees (eg, remuneration) to...
Change to public company type
The Board of a company may seek to change its “type” to “public” for
a number of reasons, the principal one usually being to enable...
Change of name: Pty ltd company
To change
its name a Proprietary Limited company MUST either:
have ALL shareholders (including both
parties where joint holdings) sign a Circulating Resolution in favour of the
name...
Change of company name: Public company
Choice of
Name
As discussed, we can
change the company’s name to any name that is not already taken, subject to
shareholders’ approval.
The
Corporations Act section 147 states that...
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