Ma3. Ain Farha works as an administrative clerk at OUS Consultant, a secretarial and business management firm. She assists the legal officer in filing members' minutes of meetings and preparing documents to lodge to the Company Commission of Malaysia (CCM). Despite receiving excellent results in SPM five years ago, she is not interested in pursuing her studies at university and instead wishes to work as a company secretary. Recently, she submitted to CCM to apply for a company secretary's licence attaching the letter of support from the employer. She applied for the position of the secretarial officer with OUS Consultant to fulfil the vacant position as the company secretary of their newly incorporated company, Sri Mas Berhad. However, most of the directors of Sri Mas Berhad opposed her appointment because she lacked a degree qualification and was presumed disqualified. REQUIRED: b) Briefly explain the roles of the company secretary to the Board of Directors.

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Ain Farha works as an administrative clerk at OUS Consultant, a secretarial and business management firm. She assists the legal officer in filing members' minutes of meetings and preparing documents to lodge to the Company Commission of Malaysia (CCM). Despite receiving excellent results in SPM five years ago, she is not interested in pursuing her studies at university and instead wishes to work as a company secretary. Recently, she submitted to CCM to apply for a company secretary's licence attaching the letter of support from the employer. She applied for the position of the secretarial officer with OUS Consultant to fulfil the vacant position as the company secretary of their newly incorporated company, Sri Mas Berhad. However, most of the directors of Sri Mas Berhad opposed her appointment because she lacked a degree qualification and was presumed disqualified.

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b) Briefly explain the roles of the company secretary to the Board of Directors. 

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