6.5 Historical Perspective of the Company Secretary Role and Function

The secretary's genealogy: the clerk's origin (the nineteenth-century's "servant" — the minutes- and-the register's keeper (the Turquand-era's-and-the "mere servant" doctrine's world)); the officer's elevation (the twentieth-century's cases-and-statutes: the secretary's officer-status (the signature's-and-the authority's growth — the Panorama's-era's comparative lore by name only)); the governance-professional's maturity (the modern company-secretary's-and-the governance-professional's world (the CS's institute's-and-the qualified-secretary's rise)); and Nepal's line: the Act's-and-the practice's faces (the private-company's-optional vs the prescribed- companies'-compulsory secretary (the public-and-listed companies' statutory-secretary of 6.7's faces); the profession's-and-the CS-institute's development).