A company secretary is an officer of the company and helps to ensure compliance of the company of its statutory obligations. The Companies Act requires the company to appoint a company secretary within 6 months of its incorporation date.

Therefore, it is important to engage a company secretary that is qualified to assist the company to keep track of changes in the company and reports to ACRA in a timely manner. Some examples are when there is a change of directors, shareholders, matters relating to your share capital etc. There are also several registers to maintain, likely the Register of Controllers or the Register of Directors. The company secretary also prepares and record board and general meeting minutes and that there is good corporate governance within the company.

The company secretary has to be a natural person and locally resident in Singapore.

No, the sole director of a company cannot be the secretary of the company

The process is extremely easy and hassle-free. We can liaise with your current provider with your approval and take over the documents, records and registers from them and ensure everything is in order. Fret not if they do not respond as the procedure will still be carried on.