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STATUTES AND RULES
The Society for Free Radical Research (European Region) founded
in 1988, is an international Society registered as a charity in the United Kingdom.
It is a regional branch of the Society for Free Radical Research.
1. The name of the Institution (hereinafter called the 'Society') is the Society for Free Radical Research (European Region).
2. The Society shall be a voluntary non-
3. The objective of the Society is to advance knowledge of free radicals and the
processes in which they participate with particular reference to those processes
of industrial and medical importance, such knowledge being for the benefit of the
public. In furtherance of the above object the Society shall have the following powers:
(a)
to provide a forum for discussions;
(b) to receive and utilise donations, subscriptions
and funds from persons or organisations;
(c) to do all lawful things necessary to
advance the object;
(d) to undertake research and publish the useful results of the
research.
4. The Society shall be a constituent Regional Organisation of the Society for Free
Radical Research with the following responsibilities:
(a) the Society shall have identical
objectives to those of the Society for Free Radical Research;
(b) the Society shall
have its own elected Committee and office bearers;
(c) the Society shall be completely
responsible for its own financial viability and liability and shall determine its
own rules governing subscription. The subscription will comprise a regional organisation
component and an international component;
(d) the Society shall be responsible for
registering a list of members and raising subscriptions.
5. The Committee*
(a) The affairs of the Society will be managed by a body to be called
the Committee which shall be the governing body of the Society and which will exercise
all such powers of the Society and do on behalf of the Society all such acts as may
be done within the Rules.
(b) The office bearers of the Committee will be a President,
President-
(c) In drawing
up a list for election of the officers of the Committee, the Secretary will consider
nominations representative of academic or independent research institutions as well
as of industry;
(d) Subject to the above mentioned maximum number, the existing members
of the committee may, from time to time, appoint any member of the Society to be
an additional member of the Committee to fill any vacancy arising. Any member so
appointed will retain his/her office until the next General meeting of the Society
but he/she will then be eligible for reelection.
(e) A member of the Committee may
resign his/her office at any time by giving notice in writing to the Committee.
(f)
The Committee will decide the venue and timing of the Committee Meetings.
(g) The
Committee will assist in the coordination of meetings on free radicals. The timing
and venue of the General Meeting of the Society will be the responsibility of the
Committee. As far as is possible the General Meeting of the Society will be held
in conjunction with the General Meeting of the Society for Free Radical Research.
(h)
A restricted committee, consisting of the President, President-
The composition of the Committee may be amended by the General
Meeting of the Society.
* (as amended following the decision of the General meeting held in Paris, July 19, 2002, where the proposal of a new officer post, denominated “Meeting Officer” has been approved.) For the Complete Statutes click here
( Officer to be called “The Bureau” will have the task of preparing material for
consideration by the full committee. The Bureau will have no executive power.
The
composition of the Committee may be amended by the General Meeting of the Society.
* (as amended following the decision of the General meeting held in Paris, July 19, 2002, where the proposal of a new officer post, denominated “Meeting Officer” has been approved.)
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.
7. Subscriptions
(a) The annual subscription for members of the Society will be paid
to Taylor&Francis at a sum set by the Society on the recommendation of the Committee.
A proportion of the annual membership fee, determined by the Committee of the Society
for Free Radical Research, will be payable to the Treasurer of the International
Society for Free Radical Research.
(b) Annual subscriptions will be payable in advance
on the first day of January in each year, and every person at whatever time he/she
becomes a members will forthwith pay his/her annual subscription in respect of the
whole of the current year. Provided that he/she will become a member after the first
of October in any year he/she will not be called upon to pay another subscription
until the 1st January of the year following that in which he/she was elected.
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-
(b)
A quorum for a General Meeting will comprise not less than three ordinary members
of the Committee and twenty-
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-
(d) A quorum at a Special General
Meeting convened under sub-
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-
(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-
(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-
(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-
(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-
(e) All corresponding
Societies shall establish a Committee structure which will normally include a President,
President-
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-
(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-
May 8, 2006