Members to the organization will include the subscribers to this constitution and shall not be less than 5 at any time. The following classes of membership are available:

Ordinary Membership

• All members subscribing to this Constitution shall be ordinary members.

Corporate Membership

• Corporate Membership shall be open to any association, institution or business that is interested in supporting and furthering the aims and objectives of the Organization.

Honorary Membership

• The Organization may admit to Honorary Membership any person or corporate body whom it wishes to honor for services to the Organization.

Application for Membership requires proposer and seconder

• Every application for membership of the Organization shall be proposed by one and seconded by another Member of the Organization.

Form of application

• The form of application for membership will be in the form approved by the Board from time to time.

Admission to membership

• The Board must consider an application for membership at the next meeting of the Board after its receipt and determine, in its discretion, the admission or rejection of the applicant.
• The Board does not have to give reasons for rejecting an application.
• If an applicant is accepted for Membership the Secretary must notify the applicant of admission in such form as the Board determines and must enter the name and details of the applicant in the register of Members.

Limits on nomination of Members

• Current employees of the Organization or any subsidiary of the Organization will not be eligible for nomination as Members.
• Persons who have been excluded from membership under the terms of clause 6.9 will not be eligible for nomination as members for a period of two years from the end of their employment with the Organization or any subsidiary of the Organization (as applicable).

 The Membership of persons who subsequently become employees of the Organization will lapse on the date that they become an employee of the Organization or subsidiary.

Register of Members

• A register of the Members of the Organization must be kept at the registered offices of the organization.
• The following details must be entered in the register of Members in respect of each Member:
• The full name of the Member.
• The address of the Member and, if any, their telephone and facsimile number and email address.
• The date of admission to and cessation of membership.
• In the case of a Member other than an individual the full name, address, telephone and facsimile number and email address, if any, of its corporate representative.
• Such other information as the Board may require.

Change of details

6.14 Each Member must notify the Secretary in writing of any change in that person’s name, address, telephone or facsimile number within one month after the change.

7           Removal and cessation of Membership

Resignation

A Member may resign from membership of the Organization by giving written  notice to the Secretary.

The resignation of a Member is deemed to take effect from the date of receipt of  the notice of resignation or such later date as is provided in the notice.

Termination of Member Membership of the Organization will terminate in the following instances:

  a)If a Member is an individual, the death or bankruptcy of that Member or that Member becoming of unsound mind or becoming a person whose property is liable to be dealt with under a law about mental health.

  b) If a Member is a body corporate, the de-registration or other dissolution of that Member.

Removal from membership for wilful disregard of this Constitution

If a Member wilfully refuses or neglects to comply with the provisions of this Constitution or any regulations of the Board made under this Constitution or is otherwise guilty of conduct which in the opinion of the Board is unbecoming of a Member or prejudicial to the interests of the Organization, the Board may by way of a two-thirds or unanimous vote, order the removal of that person from the register of Members. The member being removed should be accorded a right to fair hearing by the Board.

• Rights of Members non-transferable

 The rights and privileges of a Member are not transferable during the life of the Member and cease upon the person ceasing to be a Member.

Responsibilities of the members

 Members will govern and oversee the operations of the Organization through acting as fiduciaries. The Members will be legally, financially and morally responsible for the Organization.