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Archived Documents
CONSTITUTION OF THE ARCHIMEDEANS
adopted at the Constitutional General Meeting
on Wednesday 4 March 1981,
amended at the Annual General Meeting
on Wednesday 3 March 1982,
at the Extraordinary General Meeting
on Sunday 10 June 1984,
at the Annual General Meeting
on Wednesday 6 March 1985,
at the Annual General Meeting
on Wednesday 8 March 1989,
at the Annual General Meeting
on Wednesday 7 March 1990,
at the Annual General Meeting
on Wednesday 6 March 1991
at the Extraordinary General Meeting
on Sunday 2 May 1993.
and at the Annual General Meeting
on Wednesday 2 March 1994
CHAPTER I: INTERPRETATION
SECTION 1
The Society shall be called "THE ARCHIMEDEANS".
SECTION 2
Throughout the Constitution:
(i) "University" means the University of Cambridge,
England, and terms and phrases relating thereto
shall be interpreted as in its Statutes and
Ordinances.
(ii) "Day" means a day of University Full Term.
(iii) "Member", except where otherwise qualified, means
any Honorary Member or Senior Member or Ordinary
Member or Associate Member.
(iv) "Voting Member" means any Ordinary Member or any
Associate Member.
(v) "Subgroup" means a subsidiary concern authorised
by the Committee for a specific interest within
the Objects of the Society.
(vi) "Business Meeting" means a Committee Meeting or a
General Meeting.
(vii) "Meeting" means a Business Meeting or any activity
organised by the Society or a Subgroup.
(viii) "n" means the total number of Voting Members at
the time of reckoning.
(ix) "root n" means the greatest integer whose square
does not exceed n.
SECTION 3
If any provision of the Constitution shall be found to
conflict with the then current Statutes and Ordinances and
Regulations and Proctorial Edicts of the University then it
shall be deemed void insofar as it does so conflict.
SECTION 4
There shall be Standing Orders of the Society. Any pro-
vision of the Standing Orders shall govern the conduct of
Members as if it were a provision of the Constitution, save
that if it conflicts with any provision of the Constitution
then it shall be void insofar as it does so conflict.
SECTION 5
There shall be Procedures of the Society. Any provision
of the Procedures shall govern the conduct of Officers and
Agents as if it were a provision of the Constitution or the
Standing Orders, save that if it conflicts with any pro-
vision of the Constitution or the Standing Orders then it
shall be void insofar as it does so conflict.
SECTION 6
The Publicity and Entertainments Manager shall also post
one copy of the Constitution and the Standing Orders on
the Notice-Board.
SECTION 7
In case of doubt, the Junior Proctor shall interpret the
Constitution.
CHAPTER II: OBJECTS
SECTION 1
The Objects of the Society shall be:
(i) to promote enjoyment and understanding of mathe-
matics among students of all disciplines, and to
further the cause of mathematics and Mathemati-
cians in the University and elsewhere;
(ii) to cooperate with, and to cause cooperation be-
tween, the College Societies;
(iii) to cooperate with the Faculty of Mathematics in
the University;
(iv) to hold lectures and other events of interest to
its Members;
(v) to publish two journals, which shall be called
"Eureka" and "QARCH", and other publications of
mathematical interest;
(vi) to operate a Bookshop for the benefit of its
Members.
SECTION 2
The activities of the Society shall have no political,
religious, racial or sexual bias.
CHAPTER III: COLLEGE SOCIETIES
SECTION 1
The following shall be recognised as College Societies:
(i) "THE ADAMS SOCIETY",
(ii) "NEW PYTHAGOREANS",
(iii) "THE QUINTICS",
(iv) "THE TENSORS",
(v) "THE TRINITY MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY".
SECTION 2
It is a condition of recognition as a College Society
that it admit to its meetings as a guest both any Member
who is a member of their own College Society as defined in
the standing orders and any Honorary Member or Senior
Member.
SECTION 3
As long as a College Society conforms with SECTION 2 it
shall continue to be recognised until:
(i) it dissolves itself;
(ii) it fails to hold a meeting during any academic
year;
(iii) it is disaffiliated by a General Meeting.
CHAPTER IV: MEMBERSHIP
SECTION 1
The Society shall consist of Honorary Members, Senior
Members, Ordinary Members and Associate Members.
SECTION 2
The Committee may from time to time elect such persons as
it thinks fit to Honorary Membership. Unless refused such
Membership shall last for five years from the first day of
October following this election. Honorary Members may also
be elected by majority vote at any General Meeting of the
Society. Unless refused, such Membership shall last for
five years from the first day of October following the
election.
SECTION 3
A Senior Member shall be any member of the Faculty of
Mathematics in the University.
SECTION 4
An Ordinary Member shall be any resident member of the
University (or any other person whom the Committee shall
approve) for whom a currently valid subscription to
Ordinary Membership shall have been paid as specified in
CHAPTER V SECTION 2.
SECTION 5
An Associate Member shall be any person not a resident
member of the University for whom a currently valid sub-
scription
(i) to Associate Membership shall have been paid as
specified in CHAPTER V SECTION 4 or
(ii) to Ordinary Membership shall have been paid as
specified in CHAPTER V SECTION 2 and commuted in
accordance with CHAPTER V SECTION 5.
SECTION 6
The Registrar shall keep a record of all current Members.
The Registrar shall place on the the Membership List the
name of any member who requests this. Except as proved
otherwise to the Registrar the Membership list shall be
taken as an accurate list of Members for any business of
the Society. A truncated version of the Membership list
shall be posted on the Notice-Board by the Registrar.
Information carried by the Membership list about any
particular Member shall be omitted in the truncated version
at the request of that Member or in accordance with the
Data Protection Act or any other relevant legislation.
SECTION 7
A Former Member of the Society shall be any non-resident
member of the University for whom a currently valid sub-
scription to Ordinary Membership shall have been paid as
specified in CHAPTER V SECTION 2.
SECTION 8
Membership shall cease under the following circumstances:
(i) the conditions of Membership, in the appropriate
SECTION 2,3,4,5, are not met;
(ii) the Member resigns from the Society and notifies
the Registrar in writing of this resignation.
(iii) a General Meeting cancels any subscription held
and terminates the Membership.
SECTION 9
All Members shall be entitled to receive notification of
all Meetings other than Committee Meetings. All Members and
Former Members may attend all Meetings other than Committee
Meetings.
SECTION 10
At the discretion of the Registrar, any non-Member may be
admitted to a Meeting other than a Business Meeting by
ticket which may be purchased from the Registrar on payment
of an amount to be set by the Committee.
CHAPTER V: SUBSCRIPTIONS
SECTION 1
Honorary Members and Senior Members shall not be required
to pay any subscription. Honorary Members shall be sent
free of charge a copy of each issue of Eureka published
during their Honorary Membership.
SECTION 2
Subscriptions to Ordinary Membership shall be available,
valid as follows:
(i) for one academical year and seven Days,
(ii) for two academical years and seven Days,
(iii) for life,
(iv) in special circumstances for other periods as
approved by the Committee.
SECTION 3
The subscription in SECTION 2 part (iii) shall be known
as Life Subscription. If subscriptions to Ordinary Member-
ship of a total validity for not less than three years are
taken out for one person then they compound to Compounded
Life Subscription which is valid for life also. The sub-
scriptions listed in SECTION 2 parts (i), (ii) and (iv) may
be compounded to Life Subscription by payment of the diffe-
rence from life subscription, only before the thirty-first
day of January in the Financial Year in which the subscrip-
tion becomes valid.
SECTION 4
Subscriptions to Associate Membership shall be available,
valid for five academical years and the next seven Days, at
a cost to be set by the Committee. They may be renewed
upon expiry.
SECTION 5
Should the conditions of Ordinary Membership cease to
hold, the subscriptions listed in SECTION 2 may be commuted
to subscriptions to Associate Membership, on application to
the Registrar, for the remainder of the period of the
original subscription, except for Life Subscription whose
commuted validity shall be for the first three academical
years and the next seven Days of the original subscription
and if this period has elapsed then commutation is not
possible. Only the last subscription paid towards any Com-
pounded Life Subscription is commuted; previous subscript-
ions lapse even if they are still valid. Entitlement to
Eureka is the same as for the original subscription, except
that postage must be paid in advance.
SECTION 6
Voting Membership may be valid either from the time of
payment of the subscription (the remainder of the current
academical year being counted as the first year of validity
of the subscription) or from the start of the next follow-
ing Michaelmas Full Term. Subscriptions to Voting Member-
ship are valid for the first seven Days following the last
academical year of their validity.
SECTION 7
Voting Members and Former Members shall be entitled to a
free copy of each issue of Eureka published during their
Membership or Former Membership, not exceeding the number
specified in SECTION 8 for their respective subscriptions.
Unclaimed free copies shall be counted towards this limit-
ing total.
SECTION 8
The maximum number of free copies of Eureka to which a
Voting Member or Former Member is entitled depends exclus-
ively upon the last subscription paid by or for that Voting
Member or Former Member. The number shall be, for sub-
scriptions under:
CHAPTER V SECTION 2 part (i), one;
CHAPTER V SECTION 2 part (ii), two;
CHAPTER V SECTION 2 part (iii), three;
CHAPTER V SECTION 4, five.
For subscriptions under Chapter V Section 2 part (iv),
the number shall be set by the Committee.
SECTION 9
Copies of Eureka will only be sent by post to Members or
Former Members who leave a forwarding address with the
Registrar. Former Members and Associate Members by commut-
ation must leave postage money in advance with the Business
Manager of "Eureka".
SECTION 10
Neither may free copies of Eureka be claimed more than
one year after their publication nor is any entitlement to
any issue transferable to any other issue.
CHAPTER VI: THE COMMITTEE AND PLENUM
SECTION 1
The affairs of the Society shall be governed by a Com-
mittee consisting only of the following Officers, who shall
be Ordinary Members, and of whom the first five shall be
distinct:
(i) President,
(ii) Vice-President,
(iii) Secretary,
(iv) Junior Treasurer,
(v) Registrar,
(vi) Publicity and Entertainments Manager,
(vii) Chronicler and
(viii) Business Manager.
SECTION 2
Each Officer of the Committee resident in Cambridge shall
be given 24 hours notice of any Business Meeting, normally
by the Vice-President, unless all officers resident in
Cambridge agree to hold a meeting earlier. A provisional
agenda shall be made available by the secretary 24 hours in
advance (except under exceptional circumstances as defined
above). Each Officer resident in Cambridge shall be
expected to attend and shall attempt to inform the
President if unable so to do.
SECTION 3
The following shall constitute the Plenum:
(i) the Committee;
(ii) the Senior Treasurer;
(iii) all Agents;
(iv) representatives of the College Societies, mandated
by the respective College Societies;
(v) Voting Members who shall have been Officers;
(vi) Voting Members who shall have been Agents;
(vii) members of the Faculty Board of Mathematics in the
University;
(viii) any other persons at the invitation of the Com-
mittee.
SECTION 4
Each Agent shall be accountable to the Committee, and if
entrusted with any monetary of other assets of the Society
shall keep true and accurate records of all such assets,
which shall be made available to the Junior Treasurer and
the Senior Treasurer.
SECTION 5
The Committee shall meet upon the request of any Officer.
SECTION 6
The Committee may invite any other member of the Plenum
to discuss business under that Member's charge at a
Committee Meeting.
SECTION 7
The entire Plenum shall normally be invited by the Vice-
President at least seven Days in advance to the following
special Committee Meetings:
(i) during the Lent Full Term, after the Annual Gener-
al Meeting;
(ii) during the first thirteen Days of the Easter Full Term,
or on the day preceding it;
(iii) during the first thirteen Days of the Michaelmas Full
Term, or on the day preceding them;
(iv) after the division of the Lent Term, before the
Annual General Meeting.
SECTION 8
At a Committee Meeting each member of the committee
present shall have just one vote. No decision shall be
executed without four votes having been cast in its favour.
However all members of the Plenum present may vote
regarding an amendment of the Standing Orders of the
society, the result being decided by a two-thirds majority
provided at least four members of the Committee vote in
favour.
The President shall inform officers of all relevant
decisions taken at Committee meetings. All officers shall
inform those agents for whom they are responsible of all
relevant decisions taken at Committee Meetings.
SECTION 9
The person chairing the Meeting shall ensure that the
minutes of Committee Meetings are taken. The minutes
of each Committee Meeting shall be read at the next
Committee Meeting. In order to be considered a true and
accurate record of the proceedings of a Committee Meeting,
the minutes shall have to be signed by each Officer present
at the Committee Meeting to which they refer.
CHAPTER VII: DUTIES
SECTION 1
The President shall:
(i) uphold the Objects of the Society;
(ii) chair all Business or Speaker Meetings except
possibly Extraordinary General Meetings, and
if absent from any Business or Speaker Meeting
shall have appointed a deputy to chair the
Meeting;
(iii) be responsible for the entertainment of any
guests of the Society.
SECTION 2
The Vice-President shall manage the Plenum, and in
particular shall be responsible for the following:
(i) the Caterer, who shall provide, or cause to be
provided, refreshments at Meetings;
(ii) Subgroups.
SECTION 3
The Secretary shall conduct the Society's correspondence,
shall invite speakers to address Meetings, and shall also
be responsible for :
(i) the booking of rooms for Meetings, obtaining equipment
for Meetings , and the booking of rooms for speakers
to stay in;
(ii) writing, producing and distributing the Programme Card
which is to be produced annually in the Michaelmas
term, and seeking the cooperation of the Secretaries
of the affiliated College Societies in doing so;
(iii) informing the Junior Proctor of the University and Se-
nior Treasurer, and officers, of changes in the Con-
stitution;
(iv) informing any other person , on demand , of any other
information to which that person is legally entitled
and which the Secretary is legally obliged to give.
SECTION 4
The Junior Treasurer shall be responsible to the Senior
Treasurer for the financial affairs of the Society, keeping
true and accurate accounts thereof which shall be available
to any Member, and shall also inspect regularly on behalf of
the Senior Treasurer the accounts of the following Agents:
(i) the Bookshop Manager, who shall be available at
some reasonable hours to buy second-hand
textbooks at rates above and sell at rates below
those normally offered by town bookshops;
(ii) any other Members entrusted with any monies or
other assets of the Society.
All such Agents shall present the Junior Treasurer with
true and accurate accounts for the Society monies or assets
for which they are responsible, in time for inclusion in the
Junior Treasurer's annual report to the Senior Treasurer.
The Junior Treasurer shall also supervise the Business
Manager's handling of the finances of Eureka and QARCH.
SECTION 5
The Registrar shall maintain the Membership List,
shall coordinate the recruiting of new Members, and shall
oversee the activities of, and be responsible for, the
following Agents: the Distribution Manager and the
Dihebdominalist. The Distribution Manager shall distribute
the Society's newsletter and cooperate with the Business
Manager in the distribution of the Society's other
publications, and with the Secretary in the distribution of
the Programme Card. The Dihebdominalist, who shall be two
persons if possible, shall be responsible for producing a
newsletter for the Society at regular intervals, which
shall contain information about Society and College Society
talks and other Society activities as seen fit.
SECTION 6
The Publicity and Entertainments Manager shall:
(i) coordinate, and be responsible
for, the advertising of Meetings of the Society
through posters, entries in the newsletter and
other suitable methods;
(ii) coordinate and arrange social events, and other
events which are not Speaker Meetings;
(iii) cooperate with the Registrar in recruiting new
Members.
SECTION 7
The Chronicler shall be responsible for ensuring that the
annals of the Society are kept up to date and made
available to members of the Society. The annals shall
provide a complete and accurate account of the activities
of the Society. The Chronicler ought to have both a good
command of the English language and sufficient ability as a
mathematician to make sense of talks delivered to the
Society. The Chronicler shall keep minutes of business
meetings in a separate volume from other minutes.
SECTION 8
The Business Manager shall:
(i) coordinate and be responsible for the production
and printing of Eureka and QARCH;
(ii) deal with all correspondence relating to Eureka
and QARCH outwith the remit of the Editors or the
Subscription Manager;
(iii) on publication of an issue of Eureka or QARCH take
charge of its distribution to all bodies who have
requested that issue other than by means of a
subscription acccount held with the Society. The
Committee shall give all reasonable help to the
Business Manager to facilitate this, and to
ensure that the issue is distributed to all such
bodies within forty-two Days of publication, or
by the end of the Term in which the issue is
published, whichever be the earlier;
(iv) make all reasonable efforts to attract advertising
and sponsorship for Eureka and QARCH;
(v) manage the finances of Eureka and QARCH in an
orderly and responsible manner under the
supervision of the Junior Treasurer;
(vi) be responsible for the Editors of Eureka and
QARCH, who shall collect articles for their
respective magazines, and shall seek contact with
the mathematical societies of other universities;
but the Business Manager shall not have editorial
control over any publication, unless also the
appointed Editor of that publication;
(vii) be responsible for the Subscription Manager, who
shall:
(a) deal with all correspondence relating to
subscription accounts with the Society for
Eureka and QARCH, including requests from
existing or new subscribers for back issues
of Eureka and QARCH;
(b) on publication of an issue of Eureka or
QARCH take charge of its distribution to
subscribers. The Committee shall give all
reasonable help to the Subscription Manager
to facilitate this, and to ensure that the
issue is distributed to all subscribers
within twenty-eight Days of publication, or
by the end of the Term in which the issue
is published, whichever be the earlier.
(viii) keep true and accurate accounts of the finances of
Eureka and QARCH and shall make them available
for inspection by any officer of the Society on
demand, at a week's notice.
CHAPTER VIII: TENURE
SECTION 1
(i) Nominees for election as Officers shall be Ordin-
ary Members and shall have been proposed and
seconded by different Voting Members. Nominations
shall be made in writing to the Secretary at
least twenty-four hours in advance of the elect-
ion indicating the candidate's willingness to
stand, understanding of the duties entailed
and agreement to be bound by the Constitution,
the Standing Orders and the Procedures,
accompanied by the signature of the candidate.
(ii) A nomination may only be withdrawn by the candid-
ate, in writing to the Secretary.
(iii) In the event of no valid nomination for election
to an Office at the time of the election, the re-
quirement that nominations for election to that
Office shall be submitted in advance shall be
waived.
(iv) Ordinary Members may stand for election to more
than one Office, and retiring Officers may stand
for re-election, but if, at the time of the
election for a particular post, there is a
candidate in that election whose being elected
would infringe Chapter VI Section 1, then that
candidate's candidature in the election for that
post is void. If wishing to stand at an
Extraordinary General Meeting, the person
chairing the Meeting shall vacate the Chair, and
the Voting Members present and voting shall
appoint a new person to chair the Meeting from
among the Voting Members present and willing to
take the Chair.
SECTION 2
In the event of more than one nomination for election to
any Office, there shall be a secret ballot to be conducted
by the method of single transferable vote as laid out in
the single transferable vote Regulations on pages 11 to 14
of the Ordinances of the first day of August 1979, except
that:
(i) section 1 shall not apply;
(ii) in section 2 delete "(see diagram below)";
(iii) in section 4 replace "There shall be appended to
the form of voting paper a note to the following
effect:" by "Voting Members shall be given the
following instructions:";
(iv) in section 17 "the Vice-Chancellor" shall be re-
placed by "an Ordinary Member who is not
standing in any election, appointed by the person
chairing the Meeting".
The ballots shall occur in the order of CHAPTER VI SECT-
ION 1 and each election shall occur only after the results
of the previous election shall have been declared. The
candidates in each election shall leave the room during the
voting in that election.
SECTION 3
If an Office falls vacant at a General Meeting and is not
filled at that General Meeting or falls vacant at any other
time then the remaining Officers shall meet within seven
Days to co-opt a willing Ordinary Member to that Office.
SECTION 4
Each Officer shall serve on the Committee until:
(i) resigning in writ-
ing to the President (or, in the case of the Pre-
sident, to the Secretary);
(ii) ceasing to be an Ordinary Member;
(iii) the election of the President at the Annual Gener-
al Meeting;
(iv) being dismissed at an Extraordinary General Meet-
ing;
(v) being requested to resign by all the other members
of the committee at a Committee Meeting, provided
that notice of the intention of this request shall
have been given to the officer at least 3 days
before this Committee Meeting.
SECTION 5
Each Agent shall have been appointed by the Committee
from among the Voting Members willing to accept such Ag-
ency.
SECTION 6
Each Agent shall serve on the Plenum until:
(i) resigning in writ-
ing to the Vice-President;
(ii) ceasing to be a Voting Member;
(iii) the end of the Financial Year in which is held the
next Annual General Meeting after the agent's
appointment; or
(iv) being relieved of the Agency by the Committee.
CHAPTER IX: GENERAL MEETINGS
SECTION 1
The Annual General Meeting shall be held in the afternoon
of the penultimate Wednesday of the Lent Full Term within
the University precincts. Its date shall have been advert-
ised in the Programme Card, and its time and venue on the
Noticeboard for at least the fourteen Days in advance.
SECTION 2
The business of the Annual General Meeting shall be con-
ducted in the following order:
(i) reading, amendment if necessary, and acceptance of
the minutes of any previous General Meeting not
already accepted by an Annual General Meeting,
unless held on the same Day;
(ii) presentation and acceptance of Annual Reports, in-
cluding:
(a) the Junior Treasurer's interim report for the
current financial year; including Society
accounts, consolidated accounts covering the
Bookshop, and a provisional budget for the next
financial year;
(b) an audited set of accounts for the previous
financial year, including consolidated accounts
as in (a), and a comparison of the budget to
actual expenditure;
(c) reports from the Business Managers of 'Eureka'
and 'QARCH';
(d) report from the Bookshop Manager;
(e) possibly further reports from the subgroups.
(iii) election of auditors to examine the Junior
Treasurer's books for the next Annual General
Meeting;
(iv) any business in SECTION 5;
(v) election of the Officers for the coming year;
(vi) any other Society business.
SECTION 3
An Extraordinary General Meeting shall be held at a time
and place calculated to be to the convenience of Voting
Members neither more than twenty-eight Days nor less than
fourteen Days after the motion requesting it shall have
been passed by the Committee or the Secretary shall have
received a petition for it signed by root n Voting Members.
The Secretary shall ensure that the time and venue of an
Extraordinary General Meeting are advertised on the Notice-
Board, and in the newsletter where possible, at least 14
Days in advance.
SECTION 4
At the beginning of an Extraordinary General Meeting:
(i) the Voting Members present shall appoint someone
to chair the Meeting from among the Voting
Members present and willing to take the Chair;
(ii) the person chairing the Meeting shall appoint some
Ordinary Member present and willing to be
responsible for keeping minutes of this Extra-
ordinary General Meeting.
An Extraordinary General Meeting may conduct any Society
business. No Society business may be conducted at a Meeting
other than a Business Meeting.
SECTION 5
General Meetings may conduct the following business, of
which notice shall have been given to all Voting Members at
least seven Days in advance, only with a quorum of root
n Voting Members, and voting on such business shall require
a majority of at least two thirds of the Voting Members
present and voting:
(i) dismissal from Voting Membership of any Voting
Member;
(ii) reinstatement of Voting Membership to a person de-
prived of it by part (i);
(iii) election to Honorary Membership of any person
nominated in accordance with CHAPTER IV: SECTION
2
(iv) disaffiliation of any College Society;
(v) dismissal from Office of any Officer;
(vi) amendment of the Constitution or the Standing
Orders.
SECTION 6
Unless otherwise specified, the voting on matters of dis-
pute at General Meetings shall be by a simple majority of
those Voting Members present and voting. In the event of a
tie the person chairing the Meeting shall have a casting
vote.
CHAPTER X: INDEMNITY
SECTION 1
The Society shall have a Senior Treasurer who shall be ex
officio an Honorary Member. Should the post of Senior
Treasurer fall vacant at any time, within fourteen Days the
Committee shall invite a willing Senior Member to accept
the post.
SECTION 2
The Senior Treasurer shall be responsible for the financ-
ial affairs of the Society as required by the Statutes and
Ordinances and Regulations and Proctorial Edicts of the
University.
SECTION 3
No Member other than the Senior Treasurer shall be held
responsible for the debts incurred on behalf of the Soci-
ety. "On behalf of the Society" shall be taken to mean with
the approval of at least four Officers including the Junior
Treasurer and with the written consent of the Senior
Treasurer. The Society shall not be held responsible for
debts otherwise incurred.
SECTION 4
Although Officers and Agents and guests may be reimbursed
for reasonable expenses incurred on behalf of the Society,
at the discretion of the Committee, no Officer or Agent or
guest shall be paid any fee for any service.
SECTION 5
The Financial Year of the Society shall run from the
first day of April in any calendar year to the thirty-first
day of March in the following calendar year.
SECTION 6
The Society shall be responsible in all circumstances for
Eureka, QARCH, the Bookshop, and all Subgroups. The back
numbers of both journals and other Society publications,
the stock of the Bookshop, the collection of magazines and
books owned by the Society in the care of the Bookshop
Manager, and any monies in the cash reserves or bank
accounts of these concerns, and any assets accumulated
by any Subgroup, shall be the property of the Society.
SECTION 7
Such controversial opinions as may be expressed in any
publication of the Society shall not be deemed to be those
of the Committee.
CHAPTER XI: AMENDMENT
SECTION 1
The Constitution may be amended only at a General Meet-
ing. The notice to be given to all Voting Members may just
outline the nature of the proposed changes provided that
they shall have been posted in full on the Notice-Board for
at least the seven Days preceding the General Meeting.
The person chairing the Meeting shall strictly confine the
business to those matters pertinent to the motions
advertised for at least the seven Days in advance but,
this notwithstanding, shall accept the proposition of
further motions, which do not affect this SECTION, not
advertised for at least the seven Days in advance, if the
alterations or amendments are relevant and called-for as
a result of the previous
dismissal of another motion concerning the same subject.
SECTION 2
The Standing Orders may be amended at a Plenum Meeting.
SECTION 3
The Procedures may be amended only at a Committee Meet-
ing.
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