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representatives have any interest in or claim against the funds or property of the Institute.

27. (1) The Council may refuse to accept the resignation of any member
    (a) If it has good cause for believing that the member has been guilty of conduct that would justify his expulsion from the Institute or his removal from the register; or
    (b) If the Council is informed of, and proposes to inquire into, any matters which, if proved to its satisfaction, would establish that the member has been guilty of such conduct; or
    (c) If the member is indebted to the Institute.
    (2) Such resignation shall not take effect if the Council refuses to accept it on any of the grounds mentioned in the last preceding subsection.

28. If any person while he is a member of the Institute :
    (a) Violates any fundamental rule of the Institute; or
    (b) Is convicted of crime or misdemeanour or is finally declared by any court of competent jurisdiction to have committed any fraud; or
    (c) Is held by the Council on the complaint of any member of the Institute or of any person aggrieved to have been guilty of any act or default discreditable to an architect; or
    (d) Being in practice as a registered architect, either solely on his own account or in partnership with any other person or persons, is interested or concerned in the profits of any building operations or in the acceptance of any trade discounts from any builder, timber merchant, hardware merchant, paper merchant, ironmonger, plumber, bricklayer, tiler, quarry-owner, pipe-maker or pipe merchant, plasterer, or any other merchant or tradesman dealing in materials for building; or
    (e) Conducts himself in, or out of, a meeting of the Institute in a manner which, in the opinion of the Council, is derogatory to his professional character, or that of a gentleman :
    he shall be excluded from membership or suspended for any period as the Council may determine.

29. Any charge under the preceding section preferred against a member must be in writing duly signed and forwarded to the Secretary, who shall lay it before the Council at its next meeting. Such charge shall be considered by the Council only, and the Council shall have power to appoint a committee of not fewer than three members to investigate and report thereon. Should the Council find prima facie grounds for further proceedings, the Secretary shall enclose in a Registered Letter to the member against whom the charge is preferred a copy of the charge, calling upon him to answer such charge and naming a time (not less than twenty-one days) when the Council will meet to consider such charge. The member so charged may either reply to such charge in writing or notify the Secretary seven days at least before the date fixed for considering such charge that he desires to be heard in person. The Council shall upon the day so fixed or upon any later day consider such charge and give the member charged fair and reasonable opportunity to be heard in his defence. And the Council shall have power to summon any member required to attend as a witness, and any member, after tender to him of reasonable expenses for his attendance, failing to attend, unless reasonable excuse is given, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding £5. The Council shall duly consider all matters brought before it and if a majority of at least two-thirds of the Council present at the meeting hearing such charge shall be of opinion that the charge is proved the Council shall have power to decree the suspension of such member for a period not exceeding twelve months or his expulsion from the Institute. And the Secretary shall thereupon communicate the decision of the Council by registered letter to such member.

Provided always that should any facts be subsequently brought to the knowledge of the Council which in its opinion shall justify it in rescinding its previous decision, it shall do so only with the concurrence of at least the number of votes required for the suspension or expulsion as herein provided, and in such case the Council shall notify its decision to each of the District Branches. In the case of any such expulsion or recision as herein mentioned, the fact shall be forthwith gazetted and recorded in the Journal of Proceedings, and in addition the Council may cause notice thereof to be published in such newspapers or journals as it may select.

In the event of the suspension or exclusion of a member, every certificate of membership then held by him shall be delivered by him to the Council, to be retained during his suspension or to be cancelled as the case may be, and any expelled or suspended member shall ipso facto cease to hold any office he may hold,

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30. Members, who are in the sole employ of the Government or any public body and are receiving a salary not less than £180 per annum and, at the same time, practice as architects or receive any emolument for professional services other than that which they receive out of public funds, shall be liable to expulsion from the Institute.

31. The fundamental rules of the Institute referred to in Rule 28 (a) relating to professional conduct are those rules more particularly set out in appendix “G” and known as the “Code of Ethics.”

IV. OF THE COUNCIL.

32. The Institute shall be governed by a Council consisting of the following persons, that is to say :—
    (a) All past presidents of the registered Institute;
    (b) All past presidents for the time being of the Institute;
    (c) The vice-presidents of the Institute for the time being; and
    (d) Twelve persons to be elected annually by the members from among their number in the following proportions: three to represent the Auckland District, three to represent the Wellington District, three to represent the Canterbury District, two to represent the Otago District and one to represent the Southland district.

Provided that the Council may at its discretion vary the number of representatives provided for under paragraph (d) of this subsection, if at any time a new district is created or any existing district is altered, enlarged, or subdivided as provided in subsection 5 of Section 12 of the Act.

33. The first Council of the Institute, elected under Sections 13 and 15 of the Act before the commencement of these regulations, shall consist of the following persons, namely :—

Members under Sec. 13 (1) (a) :
William C. Chatfield, Wellington; Francis W. Petre, Dunedin; Thomas Mahoney, Auckland; Cyril J. Mountfort, Christchurch; Cuthbert J. Brodrick, Invercargill; Alfred Atkins, Wellington; Patrick Y. Wales, Dunedin.

Elected under Sec. 13 (1) (c) :
William Arthur Cumming, Auckland; George Guido Schwartz, Wellington; Samuel Hurst Seager, Canterbury; John Louis Salmond, Otago; E. R. Wilson, Southland.

Elected under Section 13 (1) (d) :
George W. Allsop
George Selwyn Goldsbro’
John W. Warren
Joshua Charlesworth
William Crichton
Charles A. Lawrence
W. A. P. Clarkson
J. G. Collins
George A. J. Hart
Basil Bramston Hooper
E. W. Walden
E. R. Wilson

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Southland

Of the above, members under Sec. 13 (1) (a) are permanent Members of the Council, and the remainder shall hold office until the Annual Meeting of the Institute in the month of November, 1915, when they shall retire, but shall be eligible for re-election, excepting the president who shall become a permanent member as provided by Sec. 13 (1) (a) of the Act.

34. The members of the Council so representing any district shall be elected from time to time by the members of the Institute registered as resident in that district.

35. In the event of the Council being reduced in number by the death, resignation, or otherwise of a member, the Council may, upon the recommendation of the District concerned, elect a Fellow of the Institute (resident in that District) in his stead, who shall hold office only for the unexpired portion of the term of office of his predecessor.

36. The constitution or acts of the Council shall not be invalidated or questioned on the ground that the number of members of the Council is incomplete, or because of any error or irregularity in the election of any member thereof.

37. At the first meeting of the Council, or so soon thereafter as may be, and thereafter from year to year, the Council shall elect one of its members being a “Fellow” to be the President of the Institute. No President who has filled the position for two consecutive years shall again be eligible for the presidency until the expiration of at least two years from the termination of his previous term of office.

38. There shall be as many Vice-Presidents of the Institute as there are District Branches. The Chairman of each District Branch shall be, ex officio, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Institute.