"Entitlement to engage apprentices for imparting training at a time by the Practising Company Secretaries.

""The Council has decided that with effect from 1^st September, 2008, for the purpose of clause (c) of Regulation 48 of the Company Secretaries Regulations, 1982, the number of trainees to be sponsored to the Company Secretary in Practice (PCS) including a partner in a firm of Company Secretaries, will be equal to the number of years of continuous practice of the concerned member subject to a maximum of ten trainees. 

A PCS with two years of continuous practice will be entitled to engage only one trainee.

If the PCS surrenders his certificate of practice and starts his practice after a gap, he will be entitled to have the same number of trainees as he was entitled when he surrendered his certificate of practice.

This supercedes the earlier decision taken by Training & Education Facilities Committee of the Council in the matter.""