6.6 The Role of the Company Secretary in the Corporate Governance System

The governance's linchpin (the exam's frame): the board's-and-the-governance's professional — the compliance's custodian (the Act's-and-the listing's-and-the regulators' requirements' master (the filings-and-the calendars: the OCR's-and-the exchange's-and-the SEBON's-and-the NRB's regimes' administration)); the meetings' engineer (the Unit-2's whole machinery's operator: the notices-and-agendas-and-proxies-and-minutes-and-polls-and-e-voting's craft); the records'-and-registers' keeper (the statutory books of 3.2; the members'-and-directors'-and- charges' registers); the disclosure's-and-the reporting's officer (the announcements'and-the filings'-and-the report's sections' coordination); the governance-advice's face (the board's-and- the chairman's counsel on the procedure-and-compliance; the governance-code's-and-the "comply-or-explain"'s administration); the stakeholders'-and-regulators' interface (the shareholders'-and-the-OCR's-and-the-exchange's-and-the-auditors' day-to-day channel); and the officer's liability (the secretary's own duty-and-liability faces — the officer's exposure of the Act's-and-the securities regime's world).