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.
The Association is registered with the Companies Office, Dublin, with the registration number 23465.
Membership is open to all relevant individuals or organisations.
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Updated January 2009
VOTES OF MEMBERS
23. Every full member shall have one vote. Associate members and corporate members are not permitted to vote but may attend at any general meeting of the Association.
24. No member shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting unless all moneys immediately payable by him to the Association have been paid.
25. No objection shall be raised to the qualification of any voter except at the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote objected to is given or tendered, and every vote not disallowed at such meeting shall be valid for all purposes. Any such objection made in due time shall be referred to the chairman of the meeting whose decision shall be final and conclusive.
26. Votes may be given either personally or by post.
27. A postal vote shall be in writing under the hand of the member.
28. The postal vote shall be deposited at the office or at such other place as is specified for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting not less than 48 hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the member proposes to vote and in default the postal vote shall not be treated as valid.
29. A form of postal vote shall be in the following form or a form as near thereto as circumstances permit:
THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCAST METEOROLOGY
I/We .......................................................... of
............................................................
........................... being a member/members of the above named Association hereby vote on the following resolutions as follows:
1. ......................... .......................For/against
2. ......................... .......................For/against
3. ......................... .......................For/against
Signed:
Dated:
Please return this form to [registered office/other address] by registered post to be received no later than am/pm on
30. A postal vote shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death of the member if no intimation in writing of such death is received by the Association at the office before the commencement of the meeting.
BODIES CORPORATE ACTING BY REPRESENTATIVES AT MEETINGS
31. Any body corporate which is a member of the Association may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorize such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Association, and the person so authorized shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the body corporate which he represents as that body corporate could exercise if it were an individual member of the Association.
DIRECTORS
32. The number of the directors shall be no more than nine and no less than seven and shall consist of the chairman, the honorary treasurer, the honorary secretary, two vice chairmen, the membership secretary, the publications secretary and two other directors. The directors shall be known as the management committee.
33. The directors may be paid all expenses properly incurred by them in attending meetings of the management committee or any subcommittee or general meetings of the Association or in connection with the business of the Association.
BORROWING POWERS
34. The management committee may exercise all the powers of the Association to borrow money and to mortgage or charge its undertaking and property or any part thereof, and to issue debentures, debenture stock and other securities, whether outright or as security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Association or of any third party.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTORS
35. The business of the Association shall be managed by the management committee, who may pay all expenses incurred in promoting and registering the Association, and may exercise all such powers of the Association as are not by the Act or by these Articles required to be exercised by the Association in general meeting, subject nevertheless to the provisions of the Act and of these Articles and to such directions, being not inconsistent with the aforesaid provisions, as may be given by the Association in general meeting; but no direction given by the Association in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the management committee which would have been valid if the direction had not been given.
36. The management committee shall cause minutes to be made in books provided for the purpose:
(a) of all appointments of officers made by the directors;
(b) of the names of the directors present at each meeting of the directors and of any committee of the directors;
(c) of all resolutions and proceedings at all meetings of the Association, and of the directors and of committees of directors.
(a) of all appointments of officers made by the directors;
(b) of the names of the directors present at each meeting of the directors and of any committee of the directors;
(c) of all resolutions and proceedings at all meetings of the Association, and of the directors and of committees of directors.
DISQUALIFICATION OF DIRECTORS