General Meetings

General Meetings shall be held once in every year at such time and place as may be determined by the Executive Committee but provided that the date be fixed so that not more fifteen months shall be allowed to elapse between any two Annual General Meetings.

The above General Meetings shall be called Ordinary Meetings. All other General Meetings shall be called extraordinary.

The Executive Committee may call an Extraordinary Meeting whenever they deem it advisable, but the Executive Committee shall call an Extraordinary Meeting on receipt by the Secretary of a requisition to that effect signed by not less than five members of the Association, such requisition to specify the Objects of such Extraordinary Meetings.

If the Executive Committee does not proceed to convene a Meeting to be held within twenty one days from the date of the requisi tion being so received, they may themselves convene the meeting. All meetings convened in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which meetings are to be convened by the Executive Committee.

Fourteen days’ notice at least specifying the place, t he day and the hour of the meetings and in the case of special business, the general nature of such business, shall be given in the manner hereinafter mentioned to such as are under the provisions of this constitution entitled to receive notices from the A ssociation, provided that the accidental omission to give such notice to or the non recipient of such notice by any member, shall not invalidate any resolution passed on proceeding had any meeting, and provided further that in the case of grave emergency, such as the consideration of legislation introduced at short notice in parliament or new regulations passed by Parliament or new regulations imposed by Government Departments which are considered prejudicial to the interest of members o f the Associatio n, or any other matter which the Executive Committee may consider as urgent an Extraordinary Meeting may be convened by the giving of 48 hours’ notice by electronic communication..