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ance with the subject. Due regard will also be given to style of composition and accuracy of spelling and grammar.

170. No candidate shall be allowed to present himself for the Intermediate Examination within twelve months after he has passed the Preliminary Examination, and until he has attained the age of eighteen years at the least; or for the Final Examination within twelve months after he has passed the Intermediate Examination or has reached the age of 21 years, whichever is the sooner.

171. The time to be allowed for writing answers on each subject shall be left to the discretion of the Board of Examiners, to be determined before the commencement of the Examination, and to be clearly printed in a conspicuous place on the question paper.

172. The Presiding Officer shall have discretion to expel any candidate from the room for misconduct or other good and sufficient cause, and shall forthwith report the same in writing to the Board of Examiners.

173. Unsuccessful candidates only shall be informed of the number of marks they have obtained in each subject.

174. The Preliminary Examination shall not be required until December, 1919.

The Intermediate Examination shall not be required until December, 1917, to enable candidates for examination who are, at the date of these Regulations, serving articles or have regularly entered upon a course of study, to proceed direct to the Final Examination.

X. OF GENERAL MATTERS.

175. A notice may be served by the Institute upon any member, either personally or posted to him in an addressed envelope in any post-office.

(a) All notices shall be sent under cover as private letters and not semi-open, or as printed matter. Any notice sent by post shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered at the member’s last-known postal address in the ordinary course of the post, and in proving such service it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice was properly addressed and posted.

(b) In any case where it is required that a fixed number of days’ notice less than seven days shall be given, Sundays and statutory holidays and the days of publication and of the meetings shall not be counted in such fixed number.

(c) No member who has neglected to have his address sent to the office of the Institute (for registration in the books of the Institute) shall be entitled to have any notice or other document sent to him.

(d) No member shall be entitled to have any notice or document sent to him out of the Dominion of New Zealand and any member residing out of the Dominion shall register in the books of the Institute an address within the Dominion to which all notices or documents of the Institute may be sent on his behalf.

176. The “Articles of Agreement” and the “General Conditions of Contract,” as published from time to time by the Council, shall be used by all members in any contracts they may let to builders or others on behalf of any client.

Such “Articles” and “Conditions” are the property of the Institute and must bear the seal of the Institute. They are procurable from the Secretary or any District Secretary on application at a price to be fixed by the Council. No member will be permitted to print his own copies or to make use of any which do not bear the seal of the Institute.

177. The name of every person who shall contribute to the collection, the library, or by special contribution to the general funds of the Institute, shall be published in the Journal of Proceedings.

178. Every paper read before the Institute must be submitted to the Council and if approved shall be considered to be presented, and shall in consequence of such presentation become the property of the Institute, and the Council may publish the same in any way and at any time that it may think proper.

179. The deeds and securities of the Institute shall be kept in the custody of the Bank on behalf of the Council in an iron chest, with three separate locks, each having a different key, and the keys thereof respectively shall be kept by the President, the Hon. Secretary and the Secretary, one by each.

180. If any injury be done to any of the property of the Institute, the person causing the injury shall forthwith make such damage good or shall pay to the Institute the full value of such damaged property.

181. The Members of the Council, the Auditors, Secretary and other officers shall be indemnified by the Institute from all losses and expenses incurred by them in or about the discharge of their respective duties, except such as happen from their own respective wilful default, provided that nothing herein contained shall entitle any Councillor to travelling expenses except as are authorised under clause 82 hereof.

182. No member of the Council, Auditor, Secretary or other officer shall be liable for any other member of the Council, Auditor, Secretary or other officer, or for joining in receipt of document, for any act of conformity, or for any loss or expense happening to the Institute, unless the same happen from his own wilful default.

183. The income and property of the Institute whencesoever derived shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the objects of the Institute as set forth in these Regulations, and no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividend, bonus, or otherwise howsoever by way of profit to the persons who at any time are or have been members of the Institute, or to any of them, or to any person claiming through any of them except as a salaried officer.

184. Every member of the Institute undertakes to contribute to the assets of the Institute in the event of the same being wound up during the time that he is a member or within one year afterwards, for payment of the debts and liabilities of the Institute contracted before the time at which he ceases to be a member, and of the costs, charges and expenses of winding up the same, and for the adjustment of the rights of the contributories among themselves such amount as may be required, not exceeding five pounds.

185. If upon winding up or dissolution of the Institute there remains, after the satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities, any money and property whatsoever, the same shall not be paid to or distributed among the members of the Institute, but shall be given or transferred to some other institution or institutions having objects similar to the objects of the Institute, or to any educational institution, to be determined by the members of the Institute at or before the time of dissolution, and in default thereof as may be determined by the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

186. If any question or difference shall arise touching these regulations or the construction thereof or of any of them the same shall be referred to the Council, whose decision shall be final.

187. The headings or marginal notes shall not be deemed to be part of these Regulations. The appendices shall, however, be deemed to be part of these Regulations, and shall be binding on all members. While the Regulations can only be altered or amended as herein provided, the form in the appendices may be amended as occasion may require and on a vote of a majority of the Council at a meeting specially convened for the purpose, all matters in the appendices other than formal matters shall be altered in the same manner as alterations in these Regulations.

188. No regulation shall be made and no regulation shall be altered or revoked (save and except the forms in the Appendices as above referred to) save at a General Meeting of the members of the Institute convened for the purpose of sanctioning such alteration by resolution passed at such meeting by a majority of three-fourths of the members present. Notice of such meeting and of the alteration or alterations to be proposed thereat shall be sent by post to the registered address of each member at least fourteen days before the date fixed for the meeting, but the non-receipt of such notice by any member or members shall not invalidate the proceedings thereat, and such altered regulations shall come into force upon being gazetted.

189. It is hereby declared that all members of the Institute do, at the date of these Regulations, agree to be bound thereby and by any amendments which, from time to time, shall lawfully be made and do subscribe to the Declaration set out in Appendix “E.,” which declaration shall be signed by every person admitted to membership as from this date.

BY-LAWS OF DISTRICT BRANCHES.

OBJECTS.

1. The objects of a District Branch are similar to those expressed in “The New Zealand Institute of Architects Act, 1913” and the Regulations made thereunder, and, in particular, District Branches are established for the purpose of providing a place where members residing within the provincial district may meet for the transaction of such business as may properly be brought before them, to facilitate social and professional intercourse and to assist in the education of students, articled pupils or apprentices and members by means of lectures, &c., and for such other purposes as the Council of the Institute may from time to time determine.