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Updated January2010
The International Association of Broadcast Meteorology is established in the Republic
of Ireland as a company limited by guarantee.
The Association is registered with
the Companies Office, Dublin, with the registration number 23465.
Membership is open
to all relevant individuals or organisations.
MEMBERS
2. The number of members with which the Association proposes to be registered is 1,000, but the directors may from time to time register an increase of members.
3. The subscribers to the memorandum of association and such other persons as the directors shall admit to membership shall be members of the Association. Membership shall be divided into the categories set out in Article 4. The directors reserve the right to refuse an application for a person to be admitted as a member or to have his membership renewed.
4. (a) Full membership is open to individuals who are primarily involved in broadcast meteorology or who regularly broadcast on either radio or television.
(b) Associate membership is open to individuals who support or are interest in broadcast meteorology but are not engaged in broadcast meteorology as their primary occupation. Associate membership may include individuals involved in publishing.
(c) Corporate membership is open to organisation, companies or corporations involved in providing data and services supporting broadcast meteorology.
(b) Associate membership is open to individuals who support or are interest in broadcast meteorology but are not engaged in broadcast meteorology as their primary occupation. Associate membership may include individuals involved in publishing.
(c) Corporate membership is open to organisation, companies or corporations involved in providing data and services supporting broadcast meteorology.
5. The directors shall fix the subscription price for each category of membership. Application shall be made for membership by completing an application form which must be endorsed by two members and submitted to the secretary with the appropriate fee. The application shall be considered by a panel of three members appointed by the board for this purpose.
6. Any member who wishes to resign as a member of the Association may do so by sending notice of his resignation in writing to the management committee.
7. (1) If it appears to the management committee or shall be represented to the management committee by a requisition in writing signed by 25% or more of the members of the Association that there is reason to believe that any member has been guilty of conduct detrimental to the affairs of the Association which in the absence of satisfactory explanation would render him unfit to remain a member, the management committee shall send to such member a statement in writing of the conduct imputed to him and shall afford him an opportunity of giving an explanation in writing or in person as he may elect.
(2) If on consideration of such explanation or in the absence of any explanation within one month of written request by registered post from the management committee, the management committee shall be of the opinion that such member ought to be suspended or expelled from the Association, it shall pass a resolution accordingly, provided that at least seven directors must be present at the meeting at which the matter shall be considered and at least five present consent to the passing of the resolution.
(2) If on consideration of such explanation or in the absence of any explanation within one month of written request by registered post from the management committee, the management committee shall be of the opinion that such member ought to be suspended or expelled from the Association, it shall pass a resolution accordingly, provided that at least seven directors must be present at the meeting at which the matter shall be considered and at least five present consent to the passing of the resolution.
GENERAL MEETINGS
8. All general meetings of the Association may be held in any part of the world at the option of the directors.
9. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Association shall in each year hold a general meeting as its annual general meeting in addition to any other meetings in that year and shall specify the meeting as such in the notices calling it; and not more than 15 months shall elapse between the date of one annual general meeting of the Association and that of the next.
(2) So long as the Association holds its first annual general meeting within 18 months of its incorporation, it need not hold it in the year of its incorporation or in the following year. Subject to article 8, the annual general meeting shall be held at such time and at such place as the directors shall appoint.
(2) So long as the Association holds its first annual general meeting within 18 months of its incorporation, it need not hold it in the year of its incorporation or in the following year. Subject to article 8, the annual general meeting shall be held at such time and at such place as the directors shall appoint.
10. All general meetings other than annual general meetings shall be called extraordinary general meetings.
11. The directors may, whenever they think fit, convene an extraordinary general meeting and extraordinary general meetings shall also be convened on such requisition, or, in default, may be convened by such requisitionists being 10% of the members for the time being. If at any time there are not sufficient directors capable of acting to form a quorum, any director or any two members of the Association may convene an extraordinary general meeting in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which meetings may be convened by the directors.
NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETINGS
12. (1) Subject to sections 133 and 141 of the Act, an annual general meeting and a meeting called for the passing of a special resolution shall be called by at least 28 days' notice in writing, and a meeting of the Association (other than an annual general meeting or a meeting for the passing of a special resolution) shall be called by at least 14 days' notice in writing. The notice shall be exclusive of the day on which it is served or deemed to be served and of the day for which it is given and shall specify the place, the day and the hour of meeting and, in the case of special business, the general nature of that business and shall be given, in manner hereinafter mentioned, to such persons as are, under the Articles of the Association, entitled to receive such notices from the Association.
(2) The secretary shall be required to issue notices to all members at least 56 days before the date on which a general meeting shall be held requesting submission of resolutions to be proposed at the general meeting. Any resolution proposed shall be set out in writing proposed by a full member and seconded by a full member and returned to the secretary at least thirty-five days before the date of the meeting. The secretary shall include the resolutions with the notice to be issued to the members.
(2) The secretary shall be required to issue notices to all members at least 56 days before the date on which a general meeting shall be held requesting submission of resolutions to be proposed at the general meeting. Any resolution proposed shall be set out in writing proposed by a full member and seconded by a full member and returned to the secretary at least thirty-
20. At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands and counting postal votes.
21. Where there is an equality of votes the Chairman of the meeting shall be entitled to a second or casting vote.
22. Subject to section 141 of the Act, a resolution in writing signed by all the members for the time being entitled to attend and vote on such resolution at a general meeting (or being bodies corporate by their duly authorized representatives) shall be as valid and effective for all purposes as if the resolution had been passed at a general meeting of the Association duly convened and held, and if described as a special resolution shall be deemed to be a special resolution within the meaning of the Act.