law: Company Secretaries Act, 1980
  38. Reciprocity
  
  
  (1) Where any country, notified by the Central Government in this behalf in the
  
  Official Gazette, prevents persons of Indian domicile from becoming members of
  
  any institution similar to the Institute established under this Act or from
  
  practicing the profession of Company Secretary ship or subjects them to unfair
  
  discrimination in that country, no subject of any such country shall be
  
  entitled to become a member of the Institute or practice the profession of
  
  Company Secretaries in India.
  (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), the Council may prescribe the
  
  conditions, if any, subject to which foreign qualifications relating to Company
  
  Secretary ship shall be recognized for the purposes of entry in the Register.