Company secretary functions: report compliance, ensure adherence to secretarial standards and perform prescribed duties across governance roles. Company secretary functions require reporting to the Board on compliance with this Act, associated rules and other applicable laws, ensuring compliance with applicable secretarial standards, and discharging other prescribed duties; the term secretarial standards refers to standards issued by the professional body for company secretaries and approved by the Central Government, and these provisions do not affect the duties of the Board, chairperson, managing director or whole time director under the Act or other law.