Memorandum & Articles of Association - FIA Foundation

epresentations which the member concerned puts forward within 14 clear
days after receiving notice).
1.6 Membership of the Charity is not transferable.
2. GENERAL MEETINGS
2.1 Members are entitled to attend general meetings by an authorised representative.
General meetings are called on at least clear 21 days notice specifying the business to
be discussed.
2.2 There is a quorum at a general meeting if the number of members or authorised
representatives personally present is at least on third of the members.
2.3 The Chairman or (if the Chairman is unable or unwilling to do so) some other
member elected by those present presides at a general meeting.
2.4 Except where otherwise provided by the Act, every issue is decided by a majority of
the votes cast and except for the Chairman of the meeting, who has a second or
casting vote, every member present has one vote on each issue.
2.5 A resolution put to the vote of a meeting shall be decided on a show of hands unless
before, or on the declaration of the result of, the show of hands a poll is duly
demanded. Subject to the provisions of the Act, a poll may be demanded:-
2.5.1 by the Chairman; or
2.5.2 by at least two members having the right to vote at the meeting; or
2.5.3 by a member or members representing not less than one-tenth of the total
voting rights of all the members having the right to vote at the meeting;
and a demand by a person as proxy for a member shall be the same as a
demand by the member.
2.6 Unless a poll is duly demanded a declaration by the Chairman that a resolution has
been carried or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or lost, or not carried
by a particular majority and an entry to that effect in the minutes of the meeting,
which minutes shall be approved by the members at the following general meeting,
shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of
the votes recorded in favour of or against the resolution.
2.7 The demand for a poll may, before the poll is taken, be withdrawn but only with the
consent of the Chairman and a demand so withdrawn shall not be taken to have
invalidated the result of a show of hands declared before the demand was made.
2.8 A poll shall be taken as the Chairman directs and he may appoint scrutineers (who
need not be members) and fix a time and place for declaring the result of the poll.
The result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the
poll was demanded.
2.9 In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the
Chairman shall have a casting vote.