It's a Statutory Requirement, according to section 474 of the Companies Ordinance, a company must have a company secretary. According to the section 475(2) of the Companies Ordinance, the sole director cannot act as the company secretary of the same company. According to the section 475(3) of the Companies Ordinance, no private company having only one director may have a body corporate as its company secretary when the sole director of that body corporate is also the sole director of that private company.