law: Company Secretaries Act, 1980
  16. Staff, Remuneration and Allowances
  
  (1) For the efficient performance of its duties
  
  and functions, the Council shall appoint a Secretary who shall be a member of
  
  the Institute and may -
  (a) appoint such other
  
  persons on the staff of the Institute as it deems necessary;
  (b) prescribe the terms and conditions of service and the scales of pay of the
  
  Secretary and other employees of the Institute, including persons who have
  
  become employees of the Institute under section 33;
  (c) fix the allowances
  
  of the President, Vice-President and other members of the Council and its
  
  Committees.
  (2) The Secretary of the Institute shall be
  
  entitled to participate in the meetings of the Council and the Committees
  
  thereof but shall not be entitled to vote there at.