Certificate of practice.6. (1) No member of the Institute shall be entitled to practise, whether in India or elsewhere, unless he has obtained from the Council a certificate of practice.[(2) A member who desires to be entitled to practise shall make an application in such form and pay such annual fee, for his certificate as may be determined, by notification, by the Council, [***] and such fee shall be payable on or before the 1st day of April in each year.[***][(3) The certificate of practice obtained under sub-section (1) may be cancelled by the Council under such circumstances as may be prescribed.]
1. Substituted by the Company Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 2006, w.e.f. 8-8-2006. Prior to its substitution, sub-section (2) read as under :-(2) A member who desires to be entitled to practise shall make an application in such form and pay such annual fee, for his certificate as may be prescribed which shall not exceed two hundred rupees in any case, and such fee shall be payable on or before the 1st day of April in each year.-
2. Inserted by the Company Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 2006, w.e.f. 8-8-2006.
3. Words "which shall not exceed rupees three thousand," omitted by the Chartered Accountants, the Cost and Works Accountants and the Company Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 2022, with effect from a date yet to be notified.
4. Proviso omitted by the Cha .... To read the full section download the app from Google Play store