Adjourn ment of general meedogs.
Votes and proxies
Voting at general meetings,
Keeping of accounts,
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26. (1) With the consent of the meeting, the chairman of any general meeting of the Federation may, and, if so directed by the meet ing, shall, adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place,
(2) No business shall be transacted at any meeting which is so adjourned other than the business which was unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.
(3) When any meeting is adjourned for more than ten days, but not otherwise, the general committee shall cause to be given notice of the adjourned meeting in the manner provided by section 23, as if it were a new meeting.
27. (1) Each ordinary member and cach affiliated member shall have one vote.
(2) The vote of any such member may be given by proxy. (3) No person shall be appointed as a proxy unless he is a member. (4) The appointment of any person as a proxy shall be in the form prescribed by the general committee.
28. (1) Save as provided in subsection (2), a resolution before any general meeting of the Federation shall be decided on a show of hands, and an entry in the book of minutes of meetings of the Federation of a declaration by the chairman of the meeting that the resolution has been carried, carried unanimously or by a specified majority, or lost, as the case may be, shall be conclusive evidence of the fact, without proof d the number or proportion of votes cast in favour of or against the resolution,
(2) On or before the declaration of a vote taken in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1), one-fourth of the members present and entitled to vote may demand that the resolution be decided by a poll.
(3) If a poll is duly demanded, the same shall be taken in sock manner as the chairman of the meeting may direct.
(4) Where a poll is demanded on the question of the election of the chairman of any meeting or on the question of the adjournment of any meeting, the same shall be taken forthwith, but a poll demanded on any other question shall be taken at such time as the chairman of the meet ing may direct.
(5) Where the voles on any question are equally divided, whether the votes are taken on a show of hands or on a poll, the chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
PART V.
Accounts and auditors.
30. (1) The general committee shall cause to be prepared und laid Income and before the Federation at the annual general meeting an income and expenditure expenditure account for the period-
(a) in the case of the first such account, since the commencement
of this Ordinance; and
(6) in any other case, since the preceding account. made up to a date not earlier than the date of the meeting by more than nine months.
(2) The general committee shall cause to be made out in every year, and laid before the Federation at the annual general meeting, a balance sheet as at the date to which the income and expenditure account is made up.
account und balance sheet,
31. (1) The Federation shall at each annual general meeting ap- Appoint- point an auditor or auditors to hold office until the next annual general ment of meeting.
(2) The first auditors of the Federation may be appointed by the general committee at any time before the first annual general meeting. and any auditors so appointed shall hold office until that meeting.
(3) The general committee may fill any casual vacancy in the office of auditor, but while any such vacancy continues the surviving or con- tinuing auditor or auditors, if any, may act,
(4) The remuneration of the auditors shall be fixed by the Federa- tion in general meeting, save that the remuneration of an auditor ap- pointed before the first annual general meeting, or of an auditor appoint- ed to fill a casual vacancy, may be fixed by the general commillec.
auditors.
32. The auditors shall make a report to the members on the Auditors' accounts exardined by them and on every balance sheet laid before the report. Federation at the annual general meeting during their term of office, and the report shall state-
(4) whether or not they have obtained all the information and
explanations they have required; and
(6) whether, in their opinion, the balance sheet referred to in the report is properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correct view of the Federation's affairs according to the best of their information and the explanations given to them, and as shown by the books of the Federation.
be sent to
33. A copy of the balance sheet made out in accordance with the Balance sheel provisions of subsection (2) of section 30, together with a copy of the and report to 29. The general committee shall cause to be kept proper account. uditors' report thereon, shall be sent to every member not less than ten of the Federation and proper records in relation thereto.
days before the annual general meeting.
members.