# Companies Act 1948, Section 177: Secretary.


(1) Every company shall have a secretary and a sole director shall not also be secretary.
(2) Anything required or authorised to be done by or to the secretary may, if the office is vacant or there is for any other reason no secretary capable of acting, be done by or to any assistant or deputy secretary or, if there is no assistant or deputy secretary capable of acting, by or to any officer of the company authorised generally or specially in that behalf by the directors.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/38/section/177 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1948/section-177
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