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SFRR-E summer school

 

SFRR-E Annual Meeting Norway

 

Election of Committee members

 

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Our membership and business meetings

6. Membership
Membership of the Society will be open to any person, irrespective of place of residence, subject to the approval of the Committee. Membership of the Society implies membership of the Society for Free radical Research. The Committee may elect persons of distinction in the field as Honorary Members of the Society. Honorary members will have all the privileges of membership and will not pay a subscription.

 

8. General Meeting
(a) A General Meeting of the Society will take place not less frequently than once in every two years, at such a place as may be determined by the Committee. Twenty-eight days notice giving details of time, place, agenda and resolutions to change the Rules will be given to the members in the case of each  General Meeting.
(b) A quorum for a  General Meeting will comprise not less than three ordinary members of the Committee and twenty-five members or 15% of the total membership whichever is the smaller.

 

9. Special General Meeting of the Society
(a) The Committee may, whenever, they think fit convene a Special General Meeting of the Society.
(b) The Secretary may also convene a Special General meeting upon the requisition in writing of at least fifty members or at least 20% of the total membership of the Society whichever is the largest, stating the purpose for which the Meeting is required.
(c) At least twenty-eight days notice will be given of a Special General Meeting. Every such notice will specify the place, the day and the hour of the Meeting and the motion to be discussed. Members will be entitled to vote on the motion by post.
(d) A quorum at a Special General Meeting convened under sub-clause (a) hereof will be twenty members or 10% of the membership whichever is the largest. A quorum at a Special General Meeting convened under sub-clause (b) hereof will be fifty members or 20% of the membership whichever is the largest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10. Procedure of General Meeting
(a) The President of the Committee will preside as President at any General Meeting. If the President is not present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, then the numbers present if sufficient to form a quorum will choose a member of the Committee, or, if all members of the Committee present decline to preside, then they may choose any member present to preside.
(b) The President of the meeting may, with the consent of the meeting at which a quorum is present, or if such a meeting so decide, adjourn the meeting from time to time, or from place to place, but no business will be transacted at such adjourned meetings other than business for which the adjournment took place.
(c) At all general Meetings any resolution put to the vote at the meeting will, unless the rules otherwise provide, be decided by a show of hands by a majority of the members that a resolution has been carried or lost will be conclusive and the Secretary will make an entry to that effect in the minute-book.
(d) Every member present will have one vote and in the event of a tied vote the President will be entitled to a further or casting vote.
(e) If within half an hour of the time appointed for the holding of a  General Meeting a quorum is not present the meeting will stand adjourned to such time as the Chairman will decide. In the case of a Special General Meeting the meeting will be dissolved.

11. Election of the Committee
(a) The election of the President-Elect, Secretary, Treasurer  and Meeting Officer and Ordinary Members to the Committee shall take place by a secret ballot at every other  General Meeting and shall be open to all members of the Society. Members may either vote by post or personally at the Meeting. The postal votes received by the Secretary to the Committee or his representative will be added to those cast by other members at the meeting.
(b) In giving notice of the Election at the General Meeting, the Secretary will submit a list of the Committee, distinguishing those eligible for re-election, and will request nominations for the new Committee.
(c) Any member will be entitled to nominate any other member for each office, provided the nominee has consented to stand and is eligible for the office. Nominations will be seconded by five other members and will be received in writing not less than twenty-eight days before the date of the General Meeting. If there has not been at least one nomination of each office, the Secretary will, in consultation with Committee Members make such provision as ensures there will be at least one nominee for each office.
(d) All members of the Committee will be elected for a period of two years, to run from January 1st, provided that: (i)    The President and President- elect shall serve for a period of two calendar years. (ii)   The President-Elect shall serve as President in the two-year period following his/her election as President-Elect. (iii)   The Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Meeting officers shall serve for four calendar years and shall be eligible for re-election to a second four-year term. (iv)   After his/her period of office, any officer of the Committee shall be eligible to serve in another office, during the next four-year period, provided that they do not serve on the Committee for more than four consecutive terms."
(e) All corresponding Societies shall establish a Committee structure which will normally include a President, President-elect and a Secretary and/or Treasurer with elections to these posts every two, or three years. In respect of these posts, the corresponding Societies shall follow the rules of the European Society as given under section 11 of the Rules.

12. Procedure at Committee Meetings
(a) The Committee may meet and undertake business, adjourn and otherwise regulate their meetings as they think fit. Questions arising at any meeting will be decided by a simple majority of votes. In the case of a tied vote the President will have the casting vote.
(b) A quorum of the Committee will be four consisting of three members with the President or President-Elect or Secretary or Treasurer. In the absence of the President, the Committee will elect one of their number as President.
(c) On the request of any six members of the Committee, the Secretary will at any time summon a meeting of the Committee within three months.
(d) The Committee will ensure that proper minutes be made of the proceedings of all meetings of the Society and of the Committee and of all business transacted as such meetings, and all such minutes will be signed by the President of such meetings which will be sufficient evidence without any further proof of the facts therein stated.
(e) All acts done at any meetings of the members of the Committee or by any person acting as a member of the Committee will be deemed to have been done in good faith. Should it be afterwards discovered that there was some mistake in the appointment of any such member of the Committee or person acting as aforesaid, or that they or any of them were disqualified their actions would be deemed as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and was qualified to be a member of the Committee.

13. Accounts
(a) The Committee will cause proper books of accounts to be kept with respect to (i) all sums of money received and expended by the Society, (ii) all sales and purchases by the Society and (iii) all assets and liabilities of the Society.
(b) At each General Meeting, the Committee will present to the members of the Society an account of income and expenditure since the last General Meeting made up to the preceding March 31st, together with a balance sheet made up as at the same date.
(c) The Committee will have the accounts audited by an independent auditor.
(d) Banking account(s) will be held in the name of the Society and all cheques will be signed by two authorised persons who will be officers of the Society.

14. Change in Rules
(a) The Committee may alter, amend or add to the Rules any resolution passed at any meeting by a majority of not less than two thirds of the members present and voting subject to the approval of the next  General Meeting.
(b) Members unable to attend the General Meeting at which such a resolution is voted on, may vote on such resolution by post and all postal votes received by the Committee not later than thirty minutes before the time of the meeting will be added to those cast personally at the meeting.

15. Winding Up
The Society may only be dissolved by resolution at a General Meeting approved by seventy-five per cent of the members present and voting, postal votes will be allowed. In the event of winding up, the assets of the Society after payments of debts and liabilities, shall be transferred to a selected charitable institution having similar objectives to the Society.

 

The Catherine Pasquier award prize winner for 2009 is Consuela Borras