law: Company Secretaries Act, 1980
  2. Definitions and Interpretation
  
  (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires, -
  (a)
  
  "Associate" means an Associate Member of the Institute;
  (b) "Companies
  
  Act" means the Companies Act, 1956, (1 of 1956);
  (c) "Company
  
  Secretary" means a person who is a member of the Institute;
  (d)
  
  "Council" means the Council of the Institute constituted under
  
  section 9;
  (e) "dissolved
  
  company" means the Institute of Company Secretaries of India registered
  
  under the Companies Act;
  (f) "Fellow"
  
  means a Fellow Member of the Institute;
  (g) "Institute"
  
  means the Institute of Company Secretaries of India constituted under this Act;
  (h)
  
  "prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made under this Act;
  ( i )
  
  "President" means the President of the Council;
  (j)
  
  "Register" means the Register of members of the Institute maintained
  
  under this Act;
  (k)
  
  "Vice-President" means the Vice-President of the Council;
  (l) "year"
  
  means the period commencing on the 1st day of April of any year and ending on
  
  the 31st day of March of the succeeding year;
  (m) words and
  
  expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Companies Act shall
  
  have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act.
  (2) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, a
  
  member of the Institute shall be deemed "to be in practice" when,
  
  individually or in partnership with one or more members of the Institute in
  
  practice or in partnership with members of such other recognized professions as
  
  may be prescribed, he, in consideration of remuneration received or to be
  
  received,-
  (a) engages himself in
  
  the practice of the profession of Company Secretaries to, or in relation to,
  
  any company; or
  (b) offers to perform
  
  or performs services in relation to the promotion, forming, incorporation,
  
  amalgamation, reconstruction, reorganization or winding up of companies; or
  (c) offers to perform
  
  or performs such services as may be performed by -
  ( i )
  
  an authorized representative of a company with respect to filing, registering,
  
  presenting, attesting or verifying any documents (including forms, applications
  
  and returns) by or on behalf of the company,
  (ii) a share transfer agent,
  (iii) an issue house,
  (iv) a share and stock
  
  broker,
  (v) a secretarial
  
  auditor or consultant,
  (vi) an adviser to a
  
  company on management, including any legal or procedural matter falling under
  
  the Capital Issues (Control) Act, 1947, (29 of 1947), the Industries
  
  (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951, (65 of 1951), the Companies Act, 1956
  
  the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956, (42 of 1956), any of the rules
  
  or bye-laws made by a recognized stock exchange, the Monopolies and Restrictive
  
  Trade Practices Act, 1969, (54 of 1969), the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act,
  
  1973, (46 of 1973), or under any other law for the time being in force.
  (vii) issuing
  
  certificates on behalf of, or for the purposes of, a company; or
  (d) holds himself out
  
  to the public as a Company Secretary in practice; or
  (e) renders professional services or assistance with respect to matters of
  
  principle or detail relating to the practice of the profession of Company
  
  Secretaries, or
  (f) renders such other
  
  services as, in the opinion of the Council, are or may be rendered by a Company
  
  Secretary in practice; and the words "to be in practice" with their
  
  grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall be construed accordingly.