Dear Charuji,
I have reproduced Clause 47 of the BSE listing agreement with it's clauses. Although it stipulates to appoint a Company Secretary as a Compliance Officer, nowhere does it speak of penalty for not appointing him. I hold by my statement that the company as mentioned by Mr. Arun Jaiswal can even do without a Wholetime Company Secretary & Compliance Officer. However, none of our members are wrong in expressing their views.
Clause 47 of the BSE listing agreement :
The Company agrees-
a) to appoint the Company Secretary to act as Compliance Officer who will be responsible for monitoring the share transfer process and report to the Company’s Board in each meeting. The compliance officer will directly liaise with the authorities such as SEBI, Stock Exchanges, Registrar of Companies, etc., and investors with respect to implementation of various clauses, rules, regulations and other directives of such authorities and investor service and complaints of related matter;
b) to undertake a due diligence survey to ascertain whether the Registrars and Share Transfer Agent/s (RTA) and/or In-house Share Transfer facility, as the case may be, are sufficiently equipped with infrastructure facilities such as adequate manpower, computer hardware and software, office space, documents handling facility, etc., to serve the shareholders.
c) that it will ensure that the RTA and/or the In-house Share Transfer facility, as the case may be, produces a certificate from a practicing Company Secretary within one month of the end of each half of the financial year, certifying that all certificates have been issued within one month of the date of lodgment for transfer, sub-division, consolidation, renewal, exchange or endorsement of calls/allotment monies and a copy of the same shall be made available to the Exchange within 24 hours of the receipt of the certificate by the Company;
d) to furnish to the Exchange both by way of floppy disks and printed details, within 48 hours of its getting information regarding loss of share certificates and issue of the duplicate certificates;
e) to maintain copies of Memorandum of Understanding entered into with the RTA setting out their mutual responsibilities, at the Registered Office of the Company for Public inspection and the company further agrees to submit within 48 hours a copy of the same to the Exchange for its records.
f) to designate an e-mail ID of the grievance redressel division/compliance officer exclusively for the purpose of registering complaints by investors. The company shall display the e-mail ID and other relevant details prominently on their websites and in the various materials / pamphlets / advertisement campaigns initiated by them for creating investor awareness”.
Regards,
Veeral Gandhi