1. The Society shall be called The Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia.
2. The object of the Society is to promote education and facilitate research into the use of drugs administered intravenously in anaesthesia and science related thereto, and to disseminate and help implement the useful results of such research for the public benefit.
3. The Society shall consist of and be governed exclusively by Ordinary Members and Honorary Members who have previously been Ordinary Members. The members alone shall have power to elect the committee and change the rules.
Membership
4. The acceptance of Membership shall be deemed to imply an agreement to be bound by all the regulations of the Society for the time being.
5. Persons of distinction who have contributed to the advancement of intravenous anaesthesia are eligible for election as Honorary Members on the nomination of the committee. Honorary Members shall have the rights of Ordinary Members, but those who have not previously been Ordinary Members shall not be entitled to vote.
6. Each Ordinary Member shall pay an Annual Subscription the amount of which shall be determined at the Annual General Meeting. Upon retirement from clinical practice, members will become exempt from paying the Annual Subscription.
7. No Ordinary Member shall be admitted to the privileges of Membership until the Subscription has been paid.
8. Any Ordinary Member whose subscription is two years in arrears shall cease to be a Member.
9. The committee shall be empowered to recommend to a Special General Meeting removal of any Member if, in their opinion, the interests of the Society require it. The individual Member concerned shall have the right to be heard by the Committee before a final decision is made to recommend the removal of such a Member. If two-thirds of the Members present at the Special General Meeting vote by ballot in support of the Committee, the Member in question shall cease to be a Member of the Society.
Organisation
10. The day to day business of the Society shall be conducted by a Committee of three Officers (a President, a Secretary and a Treasurer) and five other elected members. . Election to the committee will be held annually. Committee members shall serve for a period of three years following which they are eligible for re-election.
11. The Officers will be elected for a period of three years. They shall be elected by the full members of the committee and their appointment ratified each year. An officer of the Society shall not remain in office for longer than six years consecutively.
12. The Committee may co-opt the immediate past and future meetings organisers. The Committee may co-opt other Members of the Society as deemed appropriate, and who perform significant definable functions within the Society. Co-opted members shall not have the right to vote at committee meetings.
13. The funds of the Society shall be under the control of the Committee who shall have the power to expend such funds as they think fit. No member of the committee shall acquire any interest in property belonging to the Society or receive remuneration or be interested (otherwise than as a member of the committee) in any contract entered into by the committee. Committee members shall declare any conflicts of interest to the Honorary Secretary annually.
14. Ordinary Members may make proposals to change the rules of the Society to the Committee. These proposals together with those of the Committee will be submitted to the Annual General Meeting or a Special General Meeting. The notice of the General Meeting must include notice of the resolution, setting out the terms of the alteration proposed. A change will require two-thirds of those voting to favour the change and will lead to that change in the rules.
15. Upon dissolution or winding up of the Society any surplus assets remaining after payment of all outstanding debts and liabilities shall be passed to other institutions having similar objectives to the Society. Any decision to dissolve the society shall be made at a General Meeting.
Meeting of Members
16. An Annual General Meeting shall be held at which the annual business of the Society will be
transacted. A Special General Meeting may be summoned at any time by the Committee or by the Secretary on the written request of twenty Ordinary Members. At least one week's notice of a General Meeting shall be given. Where circumstances or Government regulation prohibit a physical event, Annual or Special General meetings may be held virtually. At the Annual or Special General Meeting the President, or in his absence a nominee of the Committee, shall take the Chair.
17. The business to be transacted at the Annual General Meeting shall be to receive and consider the Reports and Accounts presented by the Committee, to confirm or otherwise deal with the Reports and Accounts, to confirm or deal with any proposal to change the Rules of the Society, to elect Members of the Committee for the ensuing year, and to determine the Annual Subscriptions.
18. A quorum of any General Meeting shall consist of at least 20 Ordinary Members of the society, at least two of which must be members of the Committee.
19. At any General Meeting, a resolution put to the meeting shall be decided by a show of hands unless a ballot is, before or on the show of hands, demanded by the Chairman or at least three Ordinary Members. The Chairman's declaration of the results of a show of hands that a resolution has been carried, or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority or lost shall be decisive been carried, or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority or lost shall be decisive. When circumstances or Government regulation prohibit a physical event, resolutions may be put to the
membership by way of a written notice and voted upon by written reply. Votes must be received from a quorum of twenty members before resolutions are considered as decided.
20. A balance sheet and an income and expenditure account shall be made out once in each year and presented to the Annual General Meeting. The accounts shall be inspected and income and expenditure verified and approved each year by a member appointed at the AGM. All monies raised by and on behalf of the Society shall be applied to furthering the objectives of the Society. No surplus monies shall be distributed to members. Reasonable expenses may be paid to members of the committee and any member of the Society acting on its behalf.
21. At a Special General Meeting the only business to be discussed shall be that on the agenda circulated before the meeting.
Scientific Meetings
22. At least one scientific meeting shall be held each year, which may be a virtual event where circumstances or Government regulation prohibit a physical event.
23. The dates and places of the Scientific Meetings will be arranged by the committee and confirmed at the Annual General Meeting
24. The Secretary will inform all Members of the dates and places of the Scientific Meetings and invite the submission of papers.
25. Scientific Meetings and Annual/Special General Meetings may be held virtually in extenuating circumstances.