CONSTITUTION AND RULES

Turnbull Library Record, Volume VIII, 1 November 1951, Page 32

CONSTITUTION AND RULES

(Adopted at Annual General Meeting, 25 November, 1941)

CONSTITUTION i The name of the Society is The Friends of the Turnbull Library. ii The objects of the Society are to promote interest in the Alexander Turnbull Library, to assist in the extension of its collections, and to be a means of interchange of information relating to English literature, to the history, literature, and art of New Zealand and the Pacific, and to all matters of interest to book/lovers. iii The Society carries out its objects by means of periodical meetings and publications, and by such other means as may from time to time be determined upon. iv In particular the Society has power in furtherance of its objects to enter into any contract, assume the execution of any trust, and hold any property real or personal whether subject to specific trusts or otherwise and may subject to the terms of any trust affecting the same alienate charge or dispose of any property so held or create any interest therein. v This constitution is to be so read construed and limited that nothing herein shall be deemed to include any purpose which is not a charitable educational or scientific purpose within the meaning of the Religious Charitable and Educational Trusts Act 1908. vi The members of the Society are the persons who are members thereof at the time of coming into force of this constitution and such persons as may thereafter become members in accordance with the rules from time to time for the time being in force. vii This constitution shall come into force upon the incorporation of the Society under the Religious Charitable and Educational Trusts Act 1908.

RULES 1. The members of the Society are those persons who having made application for membership pay a minimum annual subscription of ios. 6d. or a life membership fee of £\o ios. 2. The following are the privileges of membership namely to be notified of all general meetings and to attend thereat and to receive without charge the regular publications of the Society. 3. The privileges of membership may by direction of the Executive Committee be withheld from members whose subscriptions are in arrears and the Executive Committee may remove from membership any person whose subscription is unpaid for more than two years from the due date of payment. 4. The Society holds if possible at least two general meetings in the year which by invitation of the Library authorities are held in the Alexander Turnbull Library. The meeting held next after Easter is the annual meeting for election of officers and consideration of formal business.