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of the Council for a specific purpose, and no other business than that specified shall be discussed at such a meeting. And any such Special Meeting shall be held within twenty-one days after the delivery of such requisition to the Secretary. If within half an hour of the time appointed for such meeting there is not a quorum present no meeting shall take place, and all notice in respect thereof shall be held to have lapsed.

127. Any member whose payments are in arrear beyond three months, or who shall have owed any money to the Institute for that period, and still owes the same, shall not be entitled to vote or take part in any of its meetings. It shall not be the duty of the Secretary to notify members of the fact that they are so in arrear.

128. The office of a member of the Council shall be vacated :—
     (1) If he cease to be a member of the Institute or be excluded or suspended for any period from membership.
     (2) If he be absent from the meetings of the Council for more than two consecutive meetings without the consent of the Council.

129. A member of the Council may resign his office by sending in his resignation to the Council and on its acceptance by the Council he shall cease to be a member of the Council.

130. The Council may at any time, for sufficient cause, by a resolution passed by a majority of two-thirds of the votes of members present and voting at a Special Meeting called for the purpose, remove any member of the Council from his office, provided that the member of the Council concerned shall have been given, twenty-one days before such meeting, notice in writing of intention to propose such resolution, and the Council may, by a resolution passed by a majority of the votes of members present and voting at that meeting, elect another qualified person in his stead, in the manner provided by Section 35 of these regulations.

V. OF DISTRICT BRANCHES.

131. The Council is empowered to establish District Branches and may, subject to the Act and to these Regulations, make special by-laws for the regulation of such District Branches.

132. (a) Fifteen or more members of the Institute, at least seven being Fellows, and all being resident not less than fifty miles from the meeting-room of the nearest District Branch, may make application to the Council to form themselves into a District Branch, and after obtaining the consent of the Council they shall become a District Branch, subject to the rules of District Branches as hereinafter provided.
     (b) The foregoing clause shall not, however, apply to the present constitution and members of the Southland District Branch, this Branch being hereby empowered to continue as a District Branch so long as its membership shall not be less than seven.

VI. OF THE GENERAL MEETINGS OF THE INSTITUTE.

133. The Council may, whenever it thinks fit, call a Special or Ordinary General Meeting of the members of the Institute, and shall do so within twenty-one days from the receipt by it of a requisition in writing signed by not less than thirty members, and stating the object of the proposed meeting; the notice calling the meeting shall state the business to be transacted.

134. A member wishing to bring before a General Meeting as aforesaid a motion, not relating to the ordinary business of the Institute, shall give notice thereof to the Council in time to conveniently allow it to be referred to in the notice calling such meeting and no motion shall come before the meeting unless notice thereof has been so given.

135. The Secretary shall, not less than fourteen clear days before such General Meeting of the Institute, send to each member, at his address as registered at the Institute, a notice mentioning the day, place and hour of meeting, and the business to be transacted thereat. The non-receipt of such notice by any member shall not invalidate the proceedings of any such meeting.

136. At all such General Meetings of the Institute each member shall be entitled to one vote.

At all such General Meetings of the Institute the chair shall be taken by the President, or in his absence by a Vice-President, or in his absence by any member of the Council, who shall be chosen at the meeting, or in the absence of all of them then from among the members present.

137. At an ordinary General Meeting, unless twenty members are present within half-an-hour after the time appointed for the meeting, the meeting shall stand adjourned until such date as the Chairman shall direct, to be held at the same hour and place, and unless twenty members are present within half-an-hour after the time appointed for the adjourned meeting, the meeting shall lapse. At any Special General Meeting held on the requisition of members unless forty members are present within half-an-hour after the time appointed for the meeting, the meeting shall thereupon and thereby be dissolved.

138. Subject to the provisions of the foregoing Regulations, the Chairman of a General Meeting of the Institute may, with the consent of the meeting, adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. No notice need be given of an adjourned meeting unless it is so directed in the resolution for adjournment.

139. At every meeting of the Institute at which a vote by voting papers is prescribed or demanded, the meeting shall appoint three of their members as Scrutineers, any two of whom shall be competent to act. The Scrutineers shall reject the vote of any member who at the date of the said meeting is in arrear for more than three months in the payment of any subscription or other sum payable by him under these Regulations.

VII. OF STUDENTS.

140. (a) Students shall be persons not under fifteen years of age, actually engaged in the study of architecture.
     (b) Every person desirous of being recognized as a student shall apply to the Council in such form as the Council may from time to time prescribe.
     (c) Students shall not be deemed to be members, but shall have the use of the library, and may attend all lectures, and be present at the reading of papers or essays.
     (d) The Council may suspend or withdraw any or the whole of these privileges in the case of a Student who may appear to them to have been guilty of any improper conduct.
     (e) Any qualified person who has passed the preliminary examination of the Institute shall be entitled to be registered as “Student of the N.Z. Institute of Architects,” subject to such conditions and to such restrictions as to continuance as the Council may determine, and a register of such Students shall be kept, setting forth their names in the chronological order in which they have passed.
     (f) The Council shall, subject to the terms and conditions of any deed of gift or trust, define the programmes and conditions of competitions for such prizes, medals, exhibitions, studentships, or scholarships as may from time to time be established by the Institute, and shall, by a deed of writing under the common seal, award the same, and shall announce such awards at the next meeting immediately following such award being made.

VIII. OF ARTICLED PUPILS OR APPRENTICES.

141. Before a member of the Institute shall be entitled to receive a person to serve under articles, the person about to be articled shall be obliged to produce a certificate of the Institute to the effect that he has passed the Preliminary Examination of the Institute, or has been exempted therefrom by the Council; and no member of the Institute shall receive any person under articles without production of the said certificate.

142. Every member employing an articled pupil or apprentice shall, within one month after the execution of his articles, lodge the same with the Council to be registered and shall pay a registration fee of one guinea. The Council shall thereupon cause the said articles to be registered in a book or register to be kept for this purpose and shall forthwith return the said Articles to the said member or, at his request, retain them in safe keeping until they shall have expired.

143. Every articled pupil or apprentice shall at the expiration of his articles and before he shall be entitled to be admitted to the final examination produce to the Council a certificate from the member of the Institute to whom he has been articled to the effect that he has duly served his articles, and is a fit and proper person to be admitted a member of the Institute or, failing such certificate, shall otherwise prove to the satisfaction of the Council that he has duly served his term and is a fit and proper person as aforesaid.

144. If the employer of an articled pupil or apprentice ceases to be a member, or is suspended from membership, the articles may be transferred to another member. In the event of the death of the employer or his suspension or dismissal from the Institute the articled pupil or apprentice may enter into fresh articles for the remainder of his term of service with another member of the Institute.