香港线路板协会(6)

12.   Any member whose annual membership fee is unpaid after it has become due and shall remain unpaid for a period of sixty days when notice by registered post of the same shall have been given by the Association to him at his last known address shall cease ipso facto to be a member of the Association, but may be reinstated if he shall give adequate reasons for his failure to pay the membership fee and if in the discretion of the Executive Committee such reasons are accepted and on payment of all arrears.

13.   Associate Member shall have the rights as to speech and enjoy any of the rights given by the Executive Committee from time to time to the Associate Members, but shall not be entitled to vote at any general meetings of the Association nor shall be eligible to any office of the Executive Committee.

14.   Honorary Member shall have the rights as to speech and enjoy any of the rights given by the Executive Committee from time to time to the Honorary Members, but shall not be entitled to vote nor shall be eligible to any office of the Executive Committee.

15.   Any member desiring to resign from the Association shall give notice in writing addressed to the Secretary General deposited at the registered office of the Association of his intention so to do before payment of the next annual membership fee has become due, otherwise he shall be liable to pay the annual membership fee for that year.

16.   A member who has voluntarily resigned or has been expelled due to conviction of any crime or failure to observe any regulations or by-laws of the Association shall forfeit all rights in the claim upon the Association and shall have no claim on the property of the Association.

17.   If any member of the Association shall wilfully refuse to comply with any of the provisions of these Articles regulations or by-laws of the Association, or any resolution of the Association or do any thing to hinder the affairs and operation of the Association or shall be guilty of any conduct likely to cause obstruction or to be injurious to the interest, activities or objects of the Association or is declared bankrupt by the court as the case may be, such member shall be liable to expulsion by a resolution of the Executive Committee provided always that before such meeting is to be expelled he shall be given the right of hearing before members in general meeting.

RIGHTS OF MEMBER

18.   Any member who has paid up all fees from time to time and for the time being payable to the Association shall be entitled to attend at all general meetings of the Association. Members of the Association other than the Honorary Members and Associate Members who have paid up all fees from time to time and for the time being payable to the Association shall be entitled to vote.

MEETINGS

19.   A general meeting shall be held once every calendar year at such time (not being more than fifteen months after the holding of the last preceding general meeting) and place as the Executive Committee shall determine.

20.   The above mentioned general meeting shall be called the Annual General Meeting (AGM). All other general meetings are called Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM).

21.   The Executive Committee Members may, whenever they think fit, convene an Extraordinary General Meeting, and Extraordinary General Meeting shall also be convened on such requisition, or in default, may be convened by such requisitionists, as provided by section 113 of the Companies Ordinance.

22.   The requisition must state the objects of the meeting, and must be signed by the requisitionists and deposited at the registered office of the Association, and upon such requisitions being made notice of the meeting should be sent out to the members by the Executive Committee either personally or by sending it by post to him or to his registered address, or (if he has no registered address within Hong Kong) to the address, if any, within Hong Kong supplied by him to the Association for the giving of notice to him, or by sending it as an electronic communication in accordance with the Companies Ordinance and any applicable laws, rules and regulations to him at his electronic address as he may provide or by publishing it in accordance with the Companies Ordinance and any applicable laws, rules and regulations on the Association's computer network and giving access to such network to him. The notice of publication may be given to such person by any one of the aforesaid means set out in this Article.

23.   Members of the Association in general meetings shall be the paramount authority of the Association.

24. Except and unless provided otherwise, the ordinary business of the Annual General Meeting shall be

(a)   to approve and to adopt the financial report of the last preceding year;

(b)   to approve and to adopt the annual report of the Chairman of the Association;

(c)   to appoint the auditor of the Association;

(d)   to elect Executive Committee Members, if any.

PROCEEDINGS AT MEETING