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balloting sub-committee shall be final and not subject to ratification not- withstanding the provisions of paragraph 26). In the event that the council, shall so decide the balloting committee or sub-committee shall be governed. by paragraphs 9 and 10.
9. (1) The balloting committee or sub-committee shall be deemed to be lawfully constituted notwithstanding any vacancies therein arising through any vacancy or any other cause.
(2) The balloting committee shall choose its own chairman front among the members of that committee,
(3) No member of the balloting committee shall on any occasion vote by proxy.
10. (1) After the expiration of not less than seven days after the posting of the notice referred to in paragraph 8(2) the ballot shall be open between the bours of 10 am, and 7 pm. for five days, exclusive of Sundays.
(2) The ballot box shall then be opened in the presence of two members of the balloting committee or sub-committee.
(3) In the event of less than five members having balloted affirmatively within the said period of five days, the chairman or any three members of the ballnting committee may direct that the ballot shall remain open for a further period of five days immediately succeeding the original period of the ballot.
(4) Should five members not have recorded their votes affirmatively before the conclusion of the ballot the applicant shall be deemed not to have been elected.
(5) Not less than five affirmative votes shall constitute a ballot and ooc negative vote in five shall exclude.
(6) The number of votes shall not be disclosed.
II. (1) On the election of a member she shall be notified in writing and shall forthwith sign the roll of members and shall thereupon be deemed to have agreed to be bound by the terms of the constitution and by the rules for the time being in force.
(2) If at any time after an applicant has been accepted as a residential or subscriber member the cound) shall ascertain that she has been elected under any misrepresentation, then the council shall, after inquiry and notice to the person so elected, have power to erase her name from the roll of residential or subscriber members (as the case may be) and she shall forthwith cease to be a member.
(3) No applicant proposed and not elected shall be proposed again until after the expiration of three months. The secretary shall give notice in writing to the proposer and seconder of any applicant who fails to gain membership.
(4) The council may in its discretion permit any person who has been duly proposed and seconded as a residential or subscriber member to enjoy the rights and privileges of a member pending election on such terms as it shall think fl.
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(5) The council may from time to time fill any casual vacancies in the balloting sub-committed that may occur.
12. (1) A residential member shall pay to the corporation all such charges as the council shall prescribe for board, lodging and incidentals, Every residential member shall throughout her period of residence have and enjoy all the obligations and privileges of a subscriber member other than the election of council members under paragraphs 20 and 32.
(2) A subscriber member shall pay to the corporation as from the beginning of the month during which the is admitted to membership such monthly or other subscription and other charges as the council may specify.
(3) All members shall comply with the by-laws.
13. (1) If any member shall fail to pay any moneys due from her to the corporation as and when payment thereof shall be required, the council may strike her name off the roll of residential or subscriber members as the case may be.
(2) If any member shall in the opinion of three-fourths of those members of the council present al a meeting duly convened for the consi- deration of the matter have behaved, either in the premises or elsewherG, in a manner calculated unduly to inconvenience the other members or likely to be injurious to the repulation or interests of the corporation or the association conducted by the corporation, the council may call upon her to resign forthwith and if she shall fail to resign may strike her name off the roll of members or, if the council so thinks fit, may suspend her membership for a period not exceeding six months. The decision of the council shall for all purposes be final and conclusive.
(3) A member whose name is struck off the roll of members and a member whose membership is suspended shall forthwith forfeit, or, as the case may be, shall forthwith forteil for the duration of the suspension, all right to the use of the premises and any claim upon any property of the corporation, but the council may, for cause showo, reinstate any such member.
14. A residential member who ceases to reside in the premises shall be deemed, subject to the payment of the appropriate subscription and other moneys due (if any), to become a subscriber member, unless she crasti to reside in the premises as a result of action taken by the council under paragraph 11(2) or paragraph 13(1) or (2) or unless she informs the score- lary in writing that she does not wish to become a subscriber member.
IS. (0) A subscriber member who may be leaving the Colony for three or more months at a time shall give notice to the secretary that she desires her name to be placed on the list of absent members and thereupon shall not be liable to pay the subscriber member's subscription for those complete months during which she shall be absent from the Colony, but sball pay the full monthly subscription for any parts of months during which she is resident in the Colony.
(2) A subscriber member whose name has not been placed on the absent members list and who shall be absent from the Colony for mOTE Gan eight months at a time without paying her subscription and an absent member who shall be absent from the Colony for more than two years at a time shall be deemed to have resigned.