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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 103

9. The following shall be eligible as fellows: Members who shall have been in practice as surveyors for not less than ten years.

10. The following shall be eligible as students: Cadets in General Government Survey or Public Works Department, or persons serving articles with surveyors.

11. Privileges.—Subject in all cases to compliance with these by-laws, members and fellows shall be entitled to all the privileges of the Institute. Associates shall have the same privileges as members, but shall not be entitled to become members of the Council or to nominate officers of the Institute, or to vote at any meeting of the Institute, or propose or second any resolution at any meeting. Honorary members shall not be entitled to take part in the management of the Institute, but shall in other respects be entitled to the privileges of members, and may be present at any meeting of the Institute.

Students may attend all meetings of the Institute, but may not take any part in the management of the Institute.

Admission to the Institute.

12. Persons seeking election as members or associates of the Institute shall first obtain the approval of the Local Committee in their respective districts, and shall have their names submitted to the Council in writing in Form A, signed by two members of the Institute, and shall submit to the Council such documentary evidence or proofs as may be required as to the nature of their qualifications; and the Council shall, at the next ordinary meeting ensuing after such application, proceed to consider the same; and, in the event of the Council deciding by a majority present to favourably entertain such application, it shall cause it to be submitted to the Institute at its first annual or ordinary meeting which shall take place after such application shall have been considered by the Council, and if such meeting shall not signify its disapproval of such person he shall be deemed elected.

13. Persons qualified for admission as honorary members may be proposed by not fewer than six fellows or members. The nomination paper shall state the reason for proposing to confer the honour, and shall be sent to the Council not less than twenty-eight days before the annual meeting, to allow of the case being dealt with in a manner approved of by the Council.

14. Students may be admitted by the Council on being proposed by a member.

15. All applications submitted to the Institute at any of its ordinary meetings or its annual meeting to admit persons as members, associates, or honorary members shall be decided by ballot, and by a majority of votes.

Local Committees.

16. The Council may from time to time appoint members of the Institute to be a Local Committee in any of the following “Post and Telegraph Districts” of the colony, viz.: Auckland, Blenheim, Christchurch, Dunedin, Gisborne, Greymouth, Hokitika, Invercargill, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Oamaru, Timaru, Wanganui, Wellington, and Westport.

The committee shall consist of not more than ten or less than four persons.

There shall be a chairman appointed by the committee, who shall have a casting vote as well as a deliberative one. The members of the committee shall hold office for three years from the date of their appointment, but may be removed by the Council.

The Council may on the death, resignation, or removal of any member of a Local Committee appoint some other member or associate of the Institute residing and practising in the district to be a member in his place, but the person so appointed shall hold office so long only as the person whom he succeeds would have held office.

The functions of Local Committees shall be—

(1.) To inquire into and report to the Council any facts or circumstances showing or tending to show a breach has been committed of the provisions of sections 16 and 20 of “The New Zealand Institute of Surveyors and Board of Examiners Act, 1900.”

(2.) To inquire into and report to the Council any facts or circumstances which, in the opinion of the committee, would render it advisable that any member, associate, fellow, or student should be suspended or cease to be such.

(3.) To inquire into and report to the Council any facts or circumstances which, in the opinion of the committee, would make it improper to admit any person to become a member, associate, fellow, or student of the Institute.

(4.) To report to the Council any facts or circumstances affecting the interests of the Institute or the members thereof, or in which the Institute may be concerned or interested.

Local Committees may make regulations for their good government, but such regulations shall require the consent of the Council to their validity.

Contribution to the Funds.

17. The subscription for members shall be £1 1s. per annum, due and payable in advance on the 1st day of December in each year; and any member while his subscription shall be six months in arrear shall not be entitled to be elected a member of the Council or to any office of the Institute, or to nominate any person to be a member, associate, honorary member, or fellow, or to vote at any meeting, or take any part in the management of the Institute; and any member whose subscription shall be two years in arrear shall be deemed to have severed his connection with the Institute, and his name shall be erased from the roll.

18. The subscription for associates shall be half a guinea per annum, and for students 5s. per annum, payable in advance on the 1st day of December in each year. Any associate or student whose subscription shall be two years in arrear shall be deemed to have severed his connection with the Institute, and his name shall be erased from the roll. New members or associates on admission shall pay an entrance fee of £1 1s. An associate, at the expiration of three years from the time of becoming an associate, shall (if not previously elected a member) become such without payment of any further entrance fee, but this proviso shall only apply to associates who hold the qualification required by section 9 of the said Act.

19. Any member not in arrears for subscription may compound for the payments of all future annual fees by the payment in advance of £10 10s.

Council.

20. The Council may, if it thinks fit, and upon payment of all arrears, reinstate any member, associate, or student who may have become disqualified under By-laws 17 and 18.

21. The Council shall be elected by ballot at the annual meeting of the Institute. The President shall hold office for two years, and three of the other members of the Council (not being the three members last appointed) shall retire annually by ballot, but be eligible for re-election.

22. In the event of an extraordinary vacancy occurring in the Council, by death, absence from the colony for six months (except by leave of the Council), incapacity from mental or bodily disease (of which fact the Council shall be the sole judge), or by resignation of any of its members, such vacancy may be filled by the Council, at its next or any subsequent ordinary meeting occurring after such vacancy, by the election of any member of the Institute.

23. The Council shall transact all the ordinary business of the Institute; it shall keep or cause to be kept proper minutes of its proceedings; it shall have power to appoint committees and to pass rules for the conduct of its own affairs, and from time to time to rescind, alter, or amend such rules, provided that such be not repugnant to the by-laws of the Institute; and it shall have power to appoint a secretary and other necessary officers, and at its discretion to cancel such appointments, and to order the payment out of the funds of the Institute of such salaries or allowances as it may determine. At all the meetings of the Council four members shall form a quorum.

24. At all meetings of the Council the President, or in his absence one of the Vice-Presidents, as shall be determined by the meeting, shall be the chairman, and, in the event of the voting being equal, shall give a casting vote in addition to his deliberative vote. In the absence of both the President and the Vice-Presidents the members present shall elect a chairman from among themselves, who shall for the time being exercise the functions of President.

25. The Honorary Treasurer shall, subject to the direction of the Council, have the supervision of the monetary affairs of the Institute; shall order the collection of all moneys on account of the Institute; shall keep a current account at such bank as the Council may direct; and shall furnish a properly audited account and balance-sheet to accompany each annual report.

26. The ordinary meetings of the Council shall be held at such time and place as it may from time to time determine; and, in the event of there not being a quorum present within a quarter of an hour of the time appointed for any meeting, the President, or in his absence the Secretary, may adjourn such meeting to such other time, distant not more than seven days, as he may see fit, or may declare such meeting to have lapsed.

27. The President of his own motion may, and upon a requisition signed by three members of the Council or ten members of the Institute shall, convene a special meeting thereof; and at any such special meeting no business shall be entertained other than that specified in the requisition.

28. At all meetings of the Council every question shall be decided by a majority of the members present, and by show of hands.