Constitution

9. MEETINGS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(a) The term of office of the Executive Committee shall be from the end of the annual general meeting in one year until the end of the next annual general meeting in the following year.

(b) The Executive Committee shall meet whenever and as often as it considers necessary but at least quarterly during its term of office at such times and places as it may determine.

(c) The quorum for meetings of the Executive Committee shall be not less than half its number.

(d) Questions arising at a meeting of the Executive Committee shall be decided by a majority of votes of members (or their alternates) personally present and the President shall have a casting vote in addition to his deliberative vote.

(e) A resolution in writing signed by not less than a quorum of the members of the Executive Committee (including in the absence or inability of a member to act by his alternate) shall be as valid and effective as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Executive Committee duly convened and constituted: provided that, for purposes of approving technical statements only, a written resolution assented to by a majority of all the members of the Executive Committee shall be as valid and effective as if it had been passed at a meeting of the Executive Committee duly convened and constituted.

(f)

The Executive Committee shall cause proper minutes to be kept in separate bound Minute Books of:

(i) all meetings of the Executive Committee;
(ii) all general meetings of members of the Institute.



10. DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE

The Executive Committee shall appoint a disciplinary committee, which shall have the powers to carry out the duties, and exercise the functions granted to it by the Executive Committee.

 

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