香港线路板协会(8)

34.   Any notice or document to be given or issued under these Articles shall be served by the Association on any member 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 or document 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 or other 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.

35.   Any notice or document sent by post shall be deemed to have been served on the day following that on which the envelope or wrapper containing the same is put into a post office situated withinHong Kong. Any notice or document sent as an electronic communication shall be deemed to be given on the day on which it is transmitted from the server of the Association or its agent. Any notice or document published on the Association's computer network shall be deemed to have been served or delivered on the day following that on which a notification is sent to the member that the notice or document is available on the Association's computer network.

36.   The accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to, or the non-receipt of notice of a meeting by, any member shall not invalidate the proceedings at any meeting.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

37.   There shall be an Executive Committee to manage and conduct the business of the Association. The number of Executive Committee Members shall not be less than six and shall not be more than twenty-four. The Executive Committee of the Association shall consist of the following members: -

(a)   Chairman

(b)   one or more Vice Chairmen

(c)   a Secretary General

(d)   an Honorary Treasurer

(e)   other members (if any).

38.   Executive Committee shall have power to appoint any representative of the Corporate Member of the Association to be an Executive Committee Member in order to fill a casual vacancy but the Executive Committee Member so appointed shall hold office for the residue term of the Executive Committee Member who has vacated the office for such new appointment.

39.   Executive Committee shall have power at any time and from time to time to appoint any representative of the Corporate Member of the Association as an additional Executive Committee Member but the Executive Committee Member so appointed shall hold office for such term as the Executive Committee may in its absolute discretion thinks fit but in any event not exceeding two years.

40.   Subject to Articles 38 and 39, the Executive Committee Members shall be elected by the Corporate Members of the Association at the Annual General Meeting and shall hold office for a term of two years until the conclusion of the second Annual General Meeting next following their election. All retiring members of the Executive Committee shall be eligible for re-election.

POWERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

41.   The management of the business and control of the Association shall be vested in the Executive Committee which, in addition to the powers and authorities and discretion by these presents or otherwise expressly conferred upon them, may exercise all such powers and do all such act and things as may be exercised or done by the Association and are not hereby or by the Ordinance expressly directed or, required to be exercised or done by the Association in general meeting, but subject nevertheless to the provisions of the Ordinance, and of these presents, and to any regulations from time to time made by the Association in general meeting not being inconsistent with such provisions or these presents; but no regulations so made shall invalidate any prior act of the Executive Committee which would have been valid if such regulation had not been made.

42.   Without prejudice to the general powers contained in the preceding clause and in these Articles the Executive Committee have power: -

(a)   To pay all the costs and expense of and incidental to the promotion, formation, regulation and establishment of the Association.

(b)   To acquire by purchase or otherwise, any property, rights or privileges, capable of being validly acquired by the Association and to settle consideration terms and conditions.