Memorandum
and Articles of Association
General Meetings
An Annual General Meeting of members of the Association shall be
held each year in accordance with the provisions of the Code at
a time and place to be determined by the Committee. All general
meetings other than the Annual General Meetings shall be called
Extra-ordinary General Meetings.
Extra-ordinary General Meetings
Any
member of the Committee or ten members of the Association may whenever
he or she thinks fit or whenever that think fit convene an extra-ordinary
general meeting and extra-ordinary general meetings shall be convened
on such requisition or in default may be convened by such requisitionists
as provided by the Code.
Quorum
at General or Notice of Meeting
Subject to the provisions of the Code relating to special resolutions
and agreements for shorter notice, twenty-eight days' notice at
the least (exclusive of the day on which the notice is served or
deemed to be served, and exclusive of the day for which notice is
given) specifying the place and day and the hour of meeting and
in case of special business the general nature of that business
shall be given to such persons as are entitled to receive such notice
from the Association.
For the purpose
of Article 18 all business shall be special that is transacted at
an extra-ordinary general meeting, and also all that is transacted
at an annual general meeting, with the exception of the consideration
of the accounts, balance sheets, and the report of the Committee
and auditors, the election of officers and other members of the
Committee in the place of those retiring, the appointment of the
auditors if necessary, and arrangements for the conduct of scientific
sessions.
No business
shall be transacted at any annual general meeting unless a quorum
of members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business.
Save as herein otherwise provided forty (40) ordinary financial
members shall be a quorum. For the purpose of this Article "member"
includes a person attending as a proxy.
If within half
an hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not
present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of members,
shall be dissolved; in any other case it shall stand adjourned to
the same day in the next week at the same time and place, or to
such other day at such other time and place, as the Committee may
determine, and if at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present
within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting, the
members present (being not less than three) shall be a quorum.
The President
shall preside as Chairman at every general meeting of the association,
or if there is not a President, or if he is not present within fifteen
(15) minutes after the time appointed for the holding of the meeting
or is unwilling to act, the Vice-President shall be the Chairman
or if the Vice-President is not present or is unwilling to act then
the members present shall elect one of their number to be Chairman
of the meeting.
The Chairman
may, with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present
(and shall if so directed by the meeting) adjourn the meeting from
time to time and from place to place, but not business shall be
transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left
unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.
When a meeting is adjourned for thirty (30) days or more, notice
of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original
meeting. Save as aforesaid it shall not be necessary to give any
notice of an adjourned meeting or the business to be transacted
at an adjourned meeting.
|
