Constitution

6. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(a) The affairs of the Institute shall be managed by an Executive Committee consisting of a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 10 members who shall be resident in the Republic of South Africa during their term of office. At the inaugural meeting of the Institute the members shall elect the first Executive Committee, if necessary by ballot or a show of hands, and such first Executive Committee shall hold office until the conclusion of the first annual general meeting of the Institute. At the first annual general meeting of the Institute half of the members of the Executive Committee shall retire (to be decided by ballot amongst themselves) and those vacant positions shall be filled by ballot or show of hands conducted among members at that meeting; the remaining half shall serve until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting. After the first annual general meeting half of the members of the Executive Committee shall retire annually by rotation at the conclusion of each annual general meeting and elections for filling such vacant positions shall be conducted to fill such positions. The procedures for nominations and conducting elections shall, if necessary, be set out in the by-laws.
(b) The Executive Committee may, at the request of any member of the Executive Committee, appoint one or more alternate members to act as alternate for one or more of the members of the Executive Committee. An alternate member so appointed, in the absence or inability to act of one of the members to whom he has been appointed as alternate, shall exercise and discharge all the powers, duties and functions of such member.
(c) All members of the Executive Committee will be eligible for re-appointment provided that no person shall hold office as a member of the Executive Committee for more than 5 consecutive years.
(d) A casual vacancy occurring in the membership of the Executive Committee shall be filled by the Executive Committee; an Executive Committee member so elected shall retire at the next annual general meeting.
(e)

Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (c) hereof, the appointment of a member or alternate member of the Executive Committee as the case may be shall terminate ipso facto and he shall vacate his office on the happening of any of the following events:

(i) he ceases to be a member of the Institute;
(ii) he resigns his office by notice in writing to the Executive Committee;
(iii) he is absent for more than three consecutive meetings of the Executive Committee without its leave;
(iv) he is declared insane or incapable of managing his affairs;
(v) he is sequestrated, provisionally or finally, or surrenders his estate for the benefit of his creditors or makes an offer of compromise to his creditors;
(vi) he is convicted in the Republic of South Africa or elsewhere of any criminal offence which, in the opinion of the Executive Committee, is of a disgraceful or dishonourable nature;
(vii) he ceases to be resident in the Republic of South Africa.

(f)

The appointment or removal of a member or alternate member to the Executive Committee shall

(i) In the case of removal be confirmed by a letter signed by the Executive Committee member or the President or Vice-President on behalf of the Executive Committee whichever is appropriate to the circumstance giving the name of the member or alternate member removed and the date from which his removal took effect; and
(ii) in the case of appointment take effect only on receipt by the Institute of a consent to act as a member or alternate member of the Executive Committee signed by the person concerned.

 
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