law: Company Secretaries Act, 1980
  6. Certificate of Practice
  
  (1) No member of the Institute shall be entitled
  
  to practice, 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
  
  practice 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.