1. Companies that are issuers of shares admitted to trading on a regulated market must appoint a company secretary and an alternate.
1 - As sociedades emitentes de acções admitidas à negociação em mercado regulamentado devem designar um secretário da sociedade e um suplente.
2. The secretary and the alternate must be appointed by the members in the instrument incorporating the company, or by the board of directors or the executive board of directors by a resolution recorded in the minutes.
2 - O secretário e o seu suplente devem ser designados pelos sócios no acto de constituição da sociedade ou pelo conselho de administração ou pelo conselho de administração executivo por deliberação registada em acta.
3. The office of secretary is held by a person with a higher-education degree appropriate to the performance of the duties or by a solicitador; the secretary may not hold that office in more than seven companies, except in companies in the situations provided for in Title VI of this Code.
3 - As funções de secretário são exercidas por pessoa com curso superior adequado ao desempenho das funções ou solicitador, não podendo exercê-las em mais de sete sociedades, salvo nas que se encontrem nas situações previstas no título VI deste Código.
4. If the secretary is absent or unable to act, the secretary’s duties are performed by the alternate.
4 - Em caso de falta ou impedimento do secretário, as suas funções são exercidas pelo suplente.
The obligation for issuers of shares on a regulated market to appoint a secretary and an alternate, the appointing bodies, the qualification requirement, the limit of seven companies (with the Title VI exception) and substitution by the alternate are retained.
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Unofficial English translation prepared by BCA Portugal for reference. Only the Portuguese text published in the Diário da República has legal force. Editorial notes are ours and are not part of the statute.