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1991 - 1999 : Raising the Profile of MAICSA e-mail print
With these epochal and momentous events behind it, MAICSA entered the decade of the nineties stronger and surer of itself. A series of memorable events marked the chairmanship of Mardzuki Abdullah who served for two years from 1990 to 1991. The year 1991 witnessed the first convocation ceremony for ICSA graduates held on 27 July. It was officiated by Datuk Dr Fong Chan Onn, the Deputy Minister of Education. It was a historic and personally satisfying moment for graduates of the December 1990 examination in particular and the Association in general.
In the course of the same year, the Association together with its ICSA International fraternity celebrated, , the Centenary of ICSA. To mark this grand occasion, the Association held a centenary dinner on 18 October, 1991 and various other functions and dinners in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Johor Bahru in the course of the year. The ICSA as a parent body had weathered many a storms in the course of a century and in that period had guided the practitioners of company secretaryship to justly claim due recognition for their role in a world that was increasingly characterised by the rise of modern corporations.
In Malaysia, under the chairmanship of Muhamad Nor Muhamad, MAICSA achieved a strategic milestone in 1992 when the Association was granted recognition as a prescribed body by the Government under Section 139 (a) of the Companies (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1992 which took effect from September of the same year. Fellow and Associate members of MAICSA would now automatically qualify to act as company secretaries without having to apply for a license from the Registrar of Companies (ROC).
The long and arduous journey towards the achievement of this recognition began as early as in 1977 during the chairmanship of Dato' Junus Sudin when the Association made the first overtures on the issue of the qualification of company secretaries with the relevant
With these epochal and momentous events behind it, MAICSA entered the decade of the nineties stronger and surer of itself. A series of memorable events marked the chairmanship of Mardzuki Abdullah who served for two years from 1990 to 1991. The year 1991 witnessed the first convocation ceremony for ICSA graduates held on 27 July. It was officiated by Datuk Dr Fong Chan Onn, the Deputy Minister of Education. It was a historic and personally satisfying moment for graduates of the December 1990 examination in particular and the Association in general.
In the course of the same year, the Association together with its ICSA International fraternity celebrated, , the Centenary of ICSA. To mark this grand occasion, the Association held a centenary dinner on 18 October, 1991 and various other functions and dinners in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Johor Bahru in the course of the year. The ICSA as a parent body had weathered many a storms in the course of a century and in that period had guided the practitioners of company secretaryship to justly claim due recognition for their role in a world that was increasingly characterised by the rise of modern corporations.
In Malaysia, under the chairmanship of Muhamad Nor Muhamad, MAICSA achieved a strategic milestone in 1992 when the Association was granted recognition as a prescribed body by the Government under Section 139 (a) of the Companies (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1992 which took effect from September of the same year. Fellow and Associate members of MAICSA would now automatically qualify to act as company secretaries without having to apply for a license from the Registrar of Companies (ROC).
The long and arduous journey towards the achievement of this recognition began as early as in 1977 during the chairmanship of Dato' Junus Sudin when the Association made the first overtures on the issue of the qualification of company secretaries with the relevant