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27 August 2008 |
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- The Association shall be known as the Genito-Urinary Nurses Association, referred to hereafter as ‘the Association’.
- The aims and objectives of the Association are as follows:
- to promote the sciences and arts which comprise genito-urinary medicine (GUM) nursing and ensure better education and training of GU nurses in order to improve the efficiency of their work and promote and advance GU nursing as a well recognised speciality within the profession of nursing;
- the Association shall be given the authority to present the views of it’s members on all matters of social policy and practice;
- in order to improve the professional and technical knowledge of it’s members, the Association will hold regional meetings (on rotation) to allow the exchange of information, purchase and sale of books, papers, reports and other communications;
- to seek to be represented nationally in order to participate in lectures and discussions concerning GU medicine nursing;
- to increase the membership of the Association by publicising widely the services which the Association has to offer;
- to establish and maintain a database of members;
- to establish and improve links with other national bodies of a general medical nature; and
- to invest the monies of the Association not immediately required for day to day expenses as appropriate
- Full membership of the Association is open to any registered nurse working in GU medicine on payment of the current subscription.
- Affiliate membership of the Association is open to any other person working in GU medicine, any registered nurse working in a related sexual health area and any retired member of GUNA on payment of the current subscription.
- Any person who in the opinion of the Association has furthered the objectives of the Association may be invited to become an honorary member for a period of five years. Such membership may be extended at the discretion of the Association.
- Any member may be appointed to the office of honorary president, if the members so wish, for a period of five years.
- Appointment to be made at the Annual General Meeting.
- Members are entitled to attend all meetings held by the Association.
- The subscription for all members is payable annually from the date of first subscription, by standing order.
- The Committee may reduce or remit all or part of the subscription where there are special reasons for doing so.
- A member may resign from the Association at any time by giving notice in writing to the secretary, however the current year’s subscription must be paid in full. No refund of subscription or any other sum paid by the member to the Association will be made.
- Any member whose subscription is more than three months in arrears shall cease to be a member. However, a member may reinstated on payment of such a sum as the Committee consider appropriate.
- The Association will be managed by a Committee consisting of a Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer, Membership Secretary and Publicity Officer, who must be full members of the Association. The Committee will be elected at the Annual General Meeting and should hold office for two years, when elections will be held again. Committee members may not stand again after three consecutive terms of office. Other members of the Association may be co-opted onto the Committee as required.
- No more than one person from any clinic may serve on the Committee at any one time.
- At each Annual General Meeting, either 2 or 3 Committee officers (Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer, Membership Secretary or Publicity Officer) shall be due for election, except in the case of the death or early resignation of an officer.
- If a member of the Committee resigns or is unable to continue to act as an officer, the Committee may ask a member of the Association to fill the vacancy until the next Annual General Meeting.
- The Committee will be responsible for the proper minutes of all meetings beings taken. In addition, the Committee is responsible for keeping proper accounts for all money received and spent by the Association, all sale and purchase of goods by the Association and all assets and liabilities of the Association.
- The Association shall hold an Annual general meeting no later than 30th April and a further meeting during the year as agreed by the members of the Association.
- The following business shall be carried out at the Annual General Meeting:
- to receive a statement of the Associations accounts;
- to appoint external auditors;
- to elect members of the Committee as necessary by postal ballot, announcing the results at the Annual General Meeting;
- to approve the election of any person as an honorary member;
- to consider, if necessary, any alteration to the Constitution;
- to deal with any special matter which the Committee wishes to bring before the members and to receive suggestions in writing from the members for consideration by the Committee; and
- to fix the date of the next meeting.
- Notice of a meeting should be sent to members not less than 21 days before the meeting.
- Every full member shall have one vote. Votes may be taken by a show of hands, or by postal vote.
- At a General Meeting 10% of the full membership needs to be present to form a quorum for business. At Committee meetings a quorum shall be half the Committee members.
- The Association shall not be run for the private profit of Committee members or members. Any balance at the end of the year shall be carried over devoted to the objectives of the Association.
- No member or Committee member may receive payment directly or indirectly for their services or for anything other than legitimate expenses incurred in work for the Association.
- The Association shall not be wound up except by a resolution of three-quarters of the full members present at a Special general meeting called for the purpose. In event of a winding up, the remaining funds of the Association shall not be distributed to the members but be passed to an organisation with similar objectives as agreed by the members at the Special General Meeting.
- No change to this Constitution may be made except by a resolution of two thirds of those present at a General Meeting. No alteration may be made to clauses 18 and 19.
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