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The Society shall be called the 'The Exeter Medico-Legal Society'. The object of the Society shall be the promotion of medico-legal knowledge in all its aspects. This object shall be attained by holding meetings at which there shall be presented and discussed papers, and by such other means as the Committee shall approve. The Society shall consit of members of the legal and of the medical professions, and of such other persons as may be interested in medico-legal work. Members of the Society may be elected by the Committee on such terms and conditions and for such period or periods as the Committee may from time to time think fit. Election for membership shall rest with the Committee. Every candidated for membership, shall submit a membership application with the appropriate fee. OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE
The officers of the Society shall be:
The affairs of the Society shall be managed by a Committee, which shall consist of the Officers and at least three other fully paid up members of the Society. Four shall form a quorum.
The Chairman, Vice Chairman, Treasurer and Secretary shall be elected annually.
Any casual vacancy occurring in the office of Officer or of the Committee may be filled by the Committee, but any person so chosen shall retain his office so long only as the vacating member in whose place he is appointed would hve retained the same if no vacancy occurred.
Any Committee member, including the Officers, who do not attend 50% of the Committee business during a business year will be deemed to have resigned from the Committee. The business year will run from 1 July to 30 June.
The Committee may from time to time appoint for such purposes as the Committee thinks fit a sub-committee with or without pwoer to add to their number, where matters of specific expertise require the appointment of such a sub-committee.
MEETINGS
The Committe shall submit to the Annual General Meeting nominations for each of the offices and Committee. Any two fully paid up members of the Society may nominated any fully paid up member of the Society for election to the Committee or to any office, four weeks before the Annual General Meeting. The Committee may nominate any fully paid up member of the Society for election to any office or to the Committee at or before its meeting prior to the Annual General Meeting. All nominations, whether by the Committee or by individual members of the Society, shall be printed on the notice convening the Annual General Meeting.
An Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held no later than the first week of july in each year, at which a report of the proceedings since the preceding Annual General Meeting shall be presented and the Officers of the Society and members of the Committee shall be elected. The statement of accounts duly audited shall be presented at the next Ordinary Meeting of the Society. Only fully paid up members of the Society shall be entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting and to vote thereat.
No rule shall be made, altered or rescinded, except by the Society in General Meeting.
ENTRANCE FEE AND SUBSCRIPTION
There shall be an entrace fee of £10 and the annual subscription of each member of the Society shall be £40 payable on application for election for membership and on each succeeding January. The annual subscription and entrance fee shall be subject to review from time to time.
The membership of any member whose subscription is one year in arrear is terminated automatically but any such member may be reinstated by the Committee on such terms as the Committee think fit.
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