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(c)
A person who has:
(1)
applied for membership and executed any form of commitment or undertaking in
the manner determined or required by rule 2.1(b);
(2)
paid the annual membership fee applicable to that person; and
(3)
not been declined admission as a member under rule 2.2
becomes entitled to be entered on the register of members kept under rule 2.7(a)
(4) on being admitted to membership under rule 2.1(a); or
(5) 90 days after receipt by AIA of the application for membership
whichever occurs first.
2.2
Power to decline admission of members
The National Board may, in its absolute discretion, decline to admit any person as a member
of AIA and must not, from the date this rule is amended, admit an Institution as a member of
AIA.
2.3
Annual Membership Fee
(a)
The annual membership fee payable by a member is that determined by the National
Board.
(b)
The National Board may fix different annual membership fees for different
categories of members.
(c)
Unless otherwise determined by the National Board the annual membership fee is
payable:
(1)
by an applicant, on applying for membership; and
(2)
by a member, on each anniversary of his or her application for membership.
2.4
Cessation of membership
A member ceases to be a member:
(a)
if the member resigns from membership by notice in writing to the National Board;
(b)
if the member dies;
(c)
if the member is expelled by the National Board under rule 2.5;
(d)
if:
(1)
not less than 2 months after the member becomes a Non Financial Member,
the Secretary or a duly appointed delegate of the Secretary by notice in
writing requires the member to pay his or her annual membership fee within
30 days of the date of the notice; and
(2)
the member fails to comply with the notice referred to in rule 2.4(d) (1);
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(e)
in any other circumstances set out in the terms of membership applicable to the
member or in any commitment or undertaking given by the member upon his or her
admission to membership.
2.5
Expulsion and suspension of members
(a)
The National Board may:
(1)
remove from membership; or
(2)
suspend from membership for a period not exceeding 3 months,
a member who fails to comply with:
(3)
these rules or any by-law made under these rules;
(4)
the terms of membership applicable to the member; or
(5)
any undertaking given by the member upon his or her admission to
membership,
by giving notice in writing of that expulsion or suspension (as the case may be) to
the member.
(b)
A person expelled or suspended from membership may appeal against his or her
expulsion or suspension to a National General Meeting by lodging a written notice of
appeal with the Secretary within 14 days of receipt of the notice of expulsion or
suspension given under rule 2.5(a).
(c)
On receipt of a written notice described in rule 2.5(b), the Secretary must convene a
National General Meeting, the business of which must include consideration of the
re-admission or cessation of suspension (as the case may be) of the person expelled
or suspended from membership.
(d)
The person expelled or suspended from membership may speak at a National
General Meeting at which his or her appeal is considered.
(e)
A person expelled or suspended from membership ceases to be expelled or
suspended if at a National General Meeting a resolution is passed to the effect that
the person is re-admitted to membership or that the person's membership is no longer
suspended (as the case may be).
(f)
A person does not have any of the rights or obligations of membership (other than
those set out in this rule 2.5) from the time that the person receives notice of his or
her expulsion or suspension.
(g)
A National General Meeting convened under rule 2.5(c) may by resolution delegate
consideration of some or all of the business referred to in a notice of general meeting
issued pursuant to this rule 2.5 on such terms as are set out in the resolution and a
person expelled or suspended from membership may speak before that delegate or
delegates.
2.6
Membership not transferable
Membership of AIA is personal to the member and is not transferable.
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2.7
Register of members
(a)
There must be a register of all members of AIA kept by the Secretary.
(b)
A copy of the register kept by the Secretary must be provided to each Branch
President on request.
(c)
The register of members must contain:
(1)
the name, address and postcode of each member;
(2)
the date at which the name of each person was entered in the register as a
member;
(3)
the date at which any person who ceased to be a member during the previous
7 years so ceased to be a member; and
(4)
such other particulars as the National Board may from time to time prescribe.
(d)
No name except that of members of AIA may be entered on the register of members.
(e)
No name may be removed from the register except in accordance with these rules.
2.8
Branch membership
(a)
The membership of AIA is divided into branches corresponding with the
descriptions in Column 1 of the table in rule 2.8(b).
(b)
Subject to rule 2.8(c), each member whose postcode on the register of members is
within a Postcode Zone in Column 2 of the table set out below shall be classified:
(1)
as a member of the Branch set out opposite in Column 1 (as the case may be):
and
Column 1
Branch
Column 2
Postcode of member appearing in
the register of members
ACT and Southern New South Wales
2535- 2541, 2545 -2551, 2580-2588,
2590, 2594, 2600-2653, 2655, 2656,
2658 - 2661, 2663, 2665, 2666, 2668,
2671, 2672, 2675, 2680, 2681, 2700 -
2703, 2705-2707, 2710, 2712 – 2717,
2720 - 2722, 2725, 2726, 2729, 2730,
2900 - 2920.
New South Wales
Any postcode commencing with the
number 2 and not listed in this
table for the purposes of
defining ACT and Southern
New South Wales, Queensland
and South Australia and
Northern Territory
Queensland and Northern New South
Wales
2468-2470, 2474-2476, 2478-2490
4000 – 4999