MEMORANDUM &ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
T
Memorandum AND Articles of
Association
THE COMPANIES ACT. 1948.
COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE
AND NOT HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL
Memorandum AND Articles of
Association
MAISEMORE GARDENS
LIMITED
Incorporated the 6th
day of February. 1962.
Coffin, Mew Be Glover,
Solicitors. Portsmouth.
No. 714547

Certificate of
Incorporation
I HEREBY CERTIFY that MAISEMORE
GARDENS LIMITED is this day Incorporated under the Companies
Act, 1948, and that the Company is LIMITED.
GIVEN under my hand at London this
Sixth day of February One thousand nine hundred and sixty-two.
L. S. WHITFIELD,
Assistant Registrar of
Companies
THE
COMPANIES ACT, 1948.
COMPANY
LIMITED BY GUARANTEE NOT HAVING
A
HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL.
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
MAISEMORE
GARDENS LIMITED.
1. The name of the
Company (hereinafter called "the Association") is "MAISEMORE
GARDENS LIMITED".
2. The registered
office of the Association will be situate in England.
3. The objects for
which the Association is established are: ‑
(A) To purchase
land at Maisemore Gardens, Emsworth, Hampshire, and to develop
and manage the same for the joint and several use of the owners
and occupiers from time to time of the dwellings known as
Maisemore Gardens.
(B) To establish
and maintain or to lease or otherwise dispose of such part of
the said land as the Association shall allocate for use by such
owners and occupiers as aforesaid and to make all rules and
regulations concerning the same and to raise such money as may
from time to time be required.
(C) Subject to the
provisions of section 14 of the Companies Act, 1948, to
purchase, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise
acquire any real or personal property and any rights or
privileges which the Association may think necessary or
convenient for the promotion of its objects, and to construct,
maintain and alter any buildings or erections necessary or
convenient for the work of the Association.
(D) To sell, let,
mortgage, dispose of or turn to account all or any of the
property or assets of the Association as may be thought
expedient with a view to the promotion of its objects.
(E) To undertake
and execute any trusts which may lawfully be undertaken by the
Association and may be conducive to its objects.
AND NOT
2.
(F) To borrow or
raise money for the purposes of the Association on such terms
and on such security as may be thought fit.
(G) To invest the
moneys of the Association not immediately required for its
purposes in or upon such investments, securities or property as
may be thought fit, subject nevertheless to such conditions (if
any) and such consents (if any) as may for the time being be
imposed or required by law and subject also as hereinafter
provided.
(H) To establish and
support or aid in the establishment and support of any
charitable associations or institutions and to subscribe or
guarantee money for charitable purposes in any way connected
with the purposes of the Association or calculated to further
its objects.
(1) To do all such other
things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the
above objects or any of them.
Provided that: -
(i) In case the
Association shall take or hold any property which may be subject
to any trusts, the Association shall only deal with or invest
the same in such manner as allowed by law, having regard to such
trusts.
(ii) The Association
shall not support with its funds any object, or endeavor to
impose on or procure to be observed by its members or others any
regulation, restriction or condition which if an object of the
Association would make it a Trade Union.
(iii) In case the
Association shall take or hold any property subject to the
jurisdiction of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales
or Minister of Education, the Association shall not sell,
mortgage, charge or lease the same without such authority,
approval or consent as may be required by law, and as regards
any such property the Council of Management or Governing Body of
the Association shall be chargeable for any such property that
may come into their hands and shall be answerable and
accountable for their own acts, receipts, neglects and defaults,
and for the due administration of such property in
the same manner and to the same extent as they would as such
Council of Management or Governing Body have been if no
incorporation had been effected. and the incorporation of the
Association shall not diminish or impair any control or
authority exercisable by the Chancery Division; the Charity
Commissioners or the Minister of Education over such Council of
Management or Governing Body, but they shall as regards any such
property be subject jointly and separately to such control or
authority as if the Association were nor incorporated.
3.
4. The income and
property of the Association, whencesoever derived, shall be
applied solely towards the promotion of the objects of the
Association as set forth in this Memorandum of Association, and
no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or
indirectly, by way of dividend, bonus or otherwise howsoever by
way of profit, to the members of the Association.
Provided that nothing
herein shall prevent the payment, in good faith, of reasonable
and proper remuneration to any officer or servant ‘of the
Association, or to any member of the Association, in return for
any services actually rendered to the Association, nor prevent
the payment of interest at a rate not exceeding 6 per cent. per
annum on money lent or reasonable and proper rent for premises
demised or let by any member to the Association; but so that no
member of the Council of Management or Governing Body of the
Association shall be appointed to any salaried office of the
Association or any office of the Association paid by fees, and
that no remuneration or other benefit in money or money's worth
shall be given by the Association to any member of such Council
or Governing Body, except repayment of out-of-pocket expenses
and interest at the rate aforesaid on money lent or reasonable
and proper rent for premises demised or let to the Association;
provided that the provision last aforesaid shall not apply to
any payment to any company of which a member of the Council of
Management or Governing Body may be a member, and in which such
member shall not hold more than one hundredth part of the
capital, and such member shall not be bound to account for any
share of profits he may receive in respect of any such payment.
5. The liability
of the members is limited.
6. Every member
of the Association undertakes to contribute to the assets of the
Association, in the event of the same being wound up while he is
a member, or within one year after he ceases to be a member, for
payment of the debts and liabilities of the Association
contracted before he ceases to be a member, and of the costs,
charges and expenses of winding up. and for the adjustment of
the rights of the contributories among themselves, such amount
as may be required not exceeding £1.
7. If upon the
winding up or dissolution of the Association there remains,
after the satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities, an•
Neil—Tiny whatsoever, the same shall not be paid to
or distributed among the members of the Association, but shall
be given or transferred to some other institution or
institutions having objects similar to the objects of the
Association, and which shall prohibit the distribution of its or
their income and property among its or their members to an
extent at least as great as is imposed on the Association under
or by virtue of Clause 4 hereof, such institution or
institutions to be determined by the members of the Association
at or before the time of dissolution, and it and so far as
effect cannot be given to such provision, then to some
charitable object.
3a.
We, the several persons
whose names and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being
formed into a Company in pursuance of this Memorandum of
Association.
NAMES, ADDRESSES AND
DESCRIPTIONS OF SUBSCRIBERS.
Peter James Vincent
Coulter,
26, Brading Avenue, Southsea.
Clerk.
John Purdy, 2, ldsworth
Rd.,
Cowplain, Hants.
Builder.
Leslie George Byres, 59,
Linda Grove,
Cowplain, Hants.
Builder.
Peter Greenhalgh
Crompton,
2, Berkeley Square,
Havant, Hants.
Estate
Agent.
Gladys Joyce Crompton,
2, Berkeley Square,
Havant, Hants.
Married Woman.
Barbara Alice Mew.
Drift House, Brook Avenue,
Warsash, Hampshire.
Married
Woman.
Robert Alexander Mew,
17, Hampshire Terrace, Portsmouth.
Solicitor.
Dated this 19th day of
January, 1962.
Witness to the above Signatures:‑
M.
Mountain,
Clerk to
Messrs. Coffin, Mew & Clover,
Solicitors, Portsmouth
THE COMPANIES ACT, 1948.
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COMPANY
LIMITED BY GUARANTEE AND NOT HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL.
ARTICLES
OF ASSOCIATION
of
MAISEMORE
GARDENS LIMITED.
GENERAL.
1. In these presents
the words standing in the first column of the Table next
hereinafter contained shall bear the meaning set opposite to
them respectively in the second column thereof, if not
inconsistent with the subject or context:‑
|
Words |
Meanings |
|
The Act |
The
Companies Act, 1948. |
|
These
presents |
these
Articles of Association, and the regulations of the
Association from time to time in force |
|
The
Association |
the
Above-named Company. |
|
The Council |
The Council
of Management for the time being of the Association. |
|
The Office |
The
registered office of the Association. |
|
The Seal |
The common
seal of the Association. |
|
The United Kingdom |
Great
Britain and Northern Ireland. |
|
Month |
Calendar
month. |
|
In
writing |
Written,
printed or lithographed, or partly one and partly
another, and other modes of representing or
reproducing words in a visible form. |
And words
importing the singular number only shall include the plural
number, and vice versa.
5.
Words importing the
masculine gender only shall include the feminine gender; and Words
importing persons shall include corporations.
Subject as aforesaid,
any words or expressions defined in the Act or any statutory
modification thereof in force at the date on which these
presents become binding on the Association shall, if not
inconsistent with the subject or context, bear the same meanings
in these presents.
2. The number of
members with which the Association proposes to be registered is
seven, but the Council may from time to time register an
increase of members.
3. The provisions of
section 110 of the Act shall be observed by the Association, and
every member of the Association shall either sign a written
consent to become a member or sign the register of members on
becoming a member.
4. The Association
is established for the purposes expressed in the Memorandum of
Association.
5. The subscribers
to the Memorandum of Association and such other persons as the
Council shall admit to membership in accordance with the
provisions hereinafter contained shall be members
of the Association.
6. The subscribers
to the Memorandum of Association shall thereby be members of the
Association without further qualification and shall remain
members thereof until by one month's written notice to the
Secretary of the Association a subscriber as aforesaid shall
retire from the Association: All other Members of the
Association must be the owners either solely or Jointly with
another or others of at least one property forming part of
Maisemore Gardens, Emsworth, Hampshire, and shall cease to be a
member of the Association on parting with the title to such
property or properties. The admission of any member either in
succession to a. former member
as a new member of the
Association shall be at the discretion of the Council of
Management.
GENERAL MEETINGS.
7. The Association
shall hold a General Meeting in every calendar year as its
Annual General Meeting at such time and place as may be
determined by the Council, and shall specify the meeting as such
in the notices calling it, provided that every Annual General
Meeting except the first shall be held not more than fifteen
months after the holding of the last preceding Annual General
Meeting, and that so long as the Association holds its first
Annual General Meeting within eighteen months after its
incorporation it need not hold it in the year of its
incorporation or in the following year.
6.
8. All General
Meetings, other than Annual General Meetings, shall be called
Extraordinary General Meetings.
9. The Council
may whenever they think fit convene an Extraordinary General
Meeting, and Extraordinary General Meetings shall also be
convened on such requisition, or in default may be convened by
such requisitions, as provided by section 132 of the Act.
10. Twenty-one days'
notice in writing at the least of every Annual General Meeting
and of every meeting convened to pass a Special Resolution, and
fourteen days' notice in writing at the least of every other
General Meeting (exclusive in every case both of the day on
which it is served or deemed to be served and of the day for
which it is given), specifying the place, the day and the hour
of meeting, and in the case of special business the general
nature of that business, shall be given in manner hereinafter
mentioned to such persons (including the Auditors)as are under
these presents or under the Act entitled to receive such notices
from the Association; but with the consent of all the members
having the right to attend and vote thereat, or of such
proportion of them as is prescribed by the Act in the case of
meetings other than Annual General Meetings, a meeting may be
convened by such notice as those members may think fit.
11. The
accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to, or the
non-receipt of such notice by, any person entitled to receive
notice thereof shall not invalidate any resolution passed, or
proceeding had, at any meeting.
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS.
12. All
business shall be deemed special that is transacted at an
Extraordinary General Meeting, and all that is transacted at an
Annual General Meeting shall also be deemed special, with the
exception of the consideration of the income and expenditure
account and balance sheet, and the reports of the Council and of
the Auditors, the election of members of the Council in the
place of those retiring, and the appointment of, and the fixing
of the remuneration of, the Auditors.
13. No
business shall be transacted at any General Meeting unless a
quorum is present when the meeting proceeds to business. Save as
herein otherwise provided seven members personally present shall
be a quorum.
14. If within
half an hour from the time appointed for the holding of
a General Meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened
on the requisition of members, shall be dissolved. In any
other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next
week, at the same time and place, or at such other place as
the Council may determine, and if at such adjourned meeting a
quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed
for holding the meeting the members present shall be
a quorum.
7.
15. The Chairman (if
any) of the Council shall preside as Chairman at every General
Meeting, but if there be no such Chairman, or if at any meeting
he shall not be present within fifteen minutes after the time
appointed for holding the same, or shall be unwilling to
preside, the members present shall choose some member of the
Council, or if no such member be present, or if all the members
of the Council present decline to take the chair, they shall
choose some member of the Association who shall be present to
preside.
16. The Chairman may,
with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present
(and shall if so, directed by the meeting) adjourn the meeting
from time to time, and from place to place, but no business
shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than business
which might have been transacted at the meeting from which the
adjournment took place. Whenever a meeting is adjourned for
thirty days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be
given in the same manner as of an original meeting. Save as
aforesaid, the members shall not be entitled to any notice of an
adjournment, or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned
meeting.
17. At any General
Meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be
decided on a show of hands, unless a poll is, before or upon the
declaration of the result of the show of hands, demanded by the
Chairman or by at least three members present in person or by
proxy, or by a member or members present in person or by proxy
and representing one-tenth of the total voting rights of all the
members having the right to vote at the meeting. and unless a
poll be so demanded a declaration by the Chairman of the meeting
that a resolution has been carried, or carried unanimously or by
a particular majority, or lost, or not carried by a particular
majority, and an entry to that effect in the minute book of the
Association shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without
proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favor
of or against that resolution. The demand for a poll may be
withdrawn.
18. Subject to the
provisions of Article 19, if a poll be demanded in manner
aforesaid, it shall be taken at such time and place, and in such
manner, as the Chairman of the meeting shall direct, and the
result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the
meeting at which the poll was demanded.
19. No poll shall be
demanded on the election of a Chairman of a meeting, or on any
question of adjournment.
20. In the case of
any equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll,
the Chairman of the meeting shall be entitled to a second or
casting vote.
21. The demand of a
poll shall not prevent the continuance of a meeting for the
transaction of any business other than the question on which a
poll has been demanded.
8.
VOTES
OF MEMBERS.
22. Subject as
hereinafter provided; every member shall have one vote.
23. Save as herein
expressly provided, no member other than a member duly
registered, who shall have paid every subscription and other sum
(if any) which shall be due and payable to the Association in
respect of his membership, shall be entitled to vote on any
question either personally or by proxy, or as a proxy for
another member, at any General Meeting.
24. Votes may be given
on a poll either personally or by proxy. On a show of hands a
member present only by proxy shall have no vote, but a proxy for
a corporation may vote on a show of hands. A corporation may
vote by its duly authorised representative appointed as provided
by section 139 of the Act. A proxy need not be a member.
25. The instrument
appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the
appointor or his attorney duly authorised in writing, or if such
appointor is a corporation under its common seal, if any, and,
if none, then under the hand of some officer duly authorised in
that behalf.
26. The instrument
appointing a proxy and the power of attorney or other authority
(if any) under which it is signed or a notarially certified or
office copy thereof shall be deposited at the office not less
than forty-eight hours before the time appointed for holding the
meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named In the
instrument proposes to vote, or in the case of a poll not less
than twenty-four hours before the time appointed for the taking
of the poll, and in default the instrument of proxy shall not be
treated as valid. No instrument appointing a proxy shall be
valid after the expiration of twelve months from the date of its
execution.
27. A vote given in
accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be
valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the
principal or revocation of the proxy or of the authority under
which the proxy was executed, provided that no intimation in
writing of the death, insanity or revocation as aforesaid shall
have been received at the office before the commencement of the
meeting or adjourned meeting at which the proxy is used.
28. Any instrument
appointing a proxy shall be in the following form or as near
thereto as circumstances will admit -
"I,
"Of
"a member
of
"Hereby appoint
"Of
"And failing him,
"Of
9.
"To vote for me and on
my behalf at the [Annual or
Extraordinary, or Adjourned, as the case may be]
General Meeting of the Association to be held
"on
the day of
"and at every
adjournment thereof.
"As witness my hand
this day of 19 .
The
instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to confer
authority to demand or join in demanding a poll.
COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT.
29. Until otherwise
determined by a General Meeting, the number of the members of
the Council shall not be less than three nor more than seven.
30. The first members
of the Council shall be the subscribers to the Memorandum of
Association.
31. The Council may
from time to time and at any time appoint any member of the
Association as a member of the Council, either to fill a casual
vacancy or by way of addition to the Council, provided that the
prescribed maximum be not thereby exceeded. Any member so
appointed shall retain his office only until the next Annual
General Meeting, but he shall then be eligible for re-election.
32. No person who is
not a member of the Association shall in any circumstances be
eligible to hold office as a member of the Council.
POWERS
OF THE. COUNCIL.
33. The business of
the Association shall be managed by the Council who may pay all
such expenses of, and preliminary and incidental to, the
promotion, formation, establishment and registration of the
Association as they think fit, and may exercise all such powers
of the Association, and do on behalf of the Association all such
acts as may be exercised and done by the Association, and as are
not by statute or by these presents required to be exercised or
done by the Association in General Meeting, subject nevertheless
to any regulations of these presents, to the provisions of the
statutes for the time being in force and affecting the
Association, and to such regulations, being not inconsistent
with the aforesaid regulations or provisions, as may be
prescribed by the Association in General Meeting, but no
regulation made by the Association in General Meeting shall
invalidate any prior act of the Council which would have been
valid if such regulation had not been made.
34. The members for
the time being of the Council may act notwithstanding any
vacancy in their body; provided always that in case the members
of the Council shall at any time be or be reduced in number to
less than the minimum number prescribed by or in accordance with
these presents, it shall be lawful for them to act as the
Council for the purpose of admitting persons
10.
to membership of the
Association, filling up vacancies in their body, or of summoning
a General Meeting, but not for any other purpose.
SECRETARY.
35. The Secretary shall
be appointed by the Council for such time, at such remuneration
and upon such conditions as they may think fit, and any
Secretary so appointed may be removed by them. The provisions of
sections 177 and 179 of the Act shall apply and be observed. The
Council may from time to time by resolution appoint an assistant
or deputy Secretary, and any person so appointed may act in
place of the Secretary if there be no Secretary or no Secretary
capable of acting.
THE
SEAL.
36. The seal of the
Association shall not be affixed to any instrument except by the
authority of a resolution of the Council, and in the presence of
at least two members of the Council and of the Secretary, and
the said members and Secretary shall sign every instrument to
which the seal shall be so affixed in their presence, and in
favour of any purchaser or person bona fide dealing with the
Association such signatures shall be conclusive evidence of the
fact that the seal has been properly affixed.
DISQUALIFICATION OF MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.
37. The office of a
member of the Council shall be vacated:‑
(A) If a receiving
order is made against him or he makes any arrangement or
composition with his creditors.
(B) If he becomes of
unsound mind.
(C) If be ceases to be
a member of the Association.
(D) If by notice in
writing to the Association he resigns his office.
(E) If he ceases to
hold office by reason of any order made under section 188 of the
Act.
(F) If he is removed
from office by a resolution duly passed pursuant to section 184
of the Act.
ROTATION OF MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.
38. At the first Annual
General Meeting and at the Annual General Meeting to be held in
every subsequent year, one-third of the members of the Council
for the time being, or if their number is not a multiple of
three then the number nearest to one-third, shall retire from
office.
11.
39. The members of
the Council to retire shall be those who have been longest in
office since their last election or appointment. As between
members of equal seniority, the members to retire shall in the
absence of agreement be selected from among them by lot. The
length of time a member has been in office shall be computed
from his last election or appointment. A retiring member of the
Council shall be eligible for re-e1e'tcT't'an--
40. The Association
may, at the meeting at which a member of the Council retires in
manner aforesaid, fill up the vacated office by electing a
person thereto, and in default the retiring member shall, if
offering himself for re-election, be deemed to have been
re-elected, unless at such meeting it is expressly resolved not
to fill such vacated office, or unless a resolution for the
re-election of such member shall have been put to the meeting
and lost.
41. No person not
being a member of the Council retiring at the meeting shall,
unless recommended by the Council for election, be eligible for
election to membership of the Council at any General Meeting,
unless within the prescribed time before the day appointed for
the meeting there shall have been given to the Secretary notice
in writing, by some member duly qualified to be present and vote
at the meeting for which such notice is given, of his intention
to propose such person for election, and also notice in writing,
signed by the person to be proposed, of his willingness to be
elected. The prescribed time above mentioned shall be such that,
between the date when the notice is served, or deemed to be
served, and the day appointed for the meeting there shall be not
less than four nor more than twenty-eight intervening days.
42. The Association
may from time to time in General Meeting increase or reduce the
number of members of the Council, and determine in what rotation
such increased or reduced number shall go out of office, and may
make the appointments necessary for effecting any such increase.
43. In addition, and
without prejudice to the provisions of section 184 of the Act,
the Association may by Extraordinary Resolution remove any
member of the Council before the expiration of his period of
office, and may by an Ordinary Resolution appoint another
qualified member in his stead; but any person so appointed shall
retain his office so long only as the member in whose place he
is appointed would have held the same if he had not been
removed.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL.
44. The Council may
meet together for the dispatch of business, adjourn and
otherwise regulate their meetings as they think fit, and
determine the quorum necessary for the transaction of business.
Unless otherwise determined, three shall be a quorum. Questions
arising at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes.
In case of an equality of votes the Chairman shall have a second
or casting vote.
12.
45. A member of the
Council may, and on the request of a member of the Council the
Secretary shall, at any time, summon a meeting of the Council by
notice served upon the several members of the Council. A member
of the Council who is absent from the United Kingdom shall not
be entitled to notice of a meeting.
46. The Council shall
from time to time elect a Chairman who shall be entitled to
preside at all meetings of the Council at which he shall be
present, and may determine for what period he is to hold office,
but if no such Chairman be elected, or if at any meeting the
Chairman be not present within five minutes after the time
appointed for holding the meeting and willing to preside, the
members of the Council present shall choose one of their number
to be Chairman of the meeting.
47. A meeting of the
Council at which a quorum is present shall be competent to
exercise all the authorities, powers and discretions by or under
the regulations of the Association for the time being vested in
the Council generally.
48. The Council may
delegate any of their powers to committees consisting of such
member or members of the Council as they think fit, and any
committee so formed shall, in the exercise of the powers so
delegated, conform to any regulations imposed on it by the
Council. The meetings and proceedings of any such committee
shall be governed by the provisions of these presents for
regulating the meetings and proceedings of the Council so far as
applicable and so far as the same
shall not be superseded
by any regulations made by the Council. V
49. All acts bona fide
done by any meeting of the Council or of any committee of the
Council, or by any person acting as a member of the Council,
shall, notwithstanding it be afterwards discovered that there
was some defect in the appointment or continuance in office of
any such member or person acting as aforesaid, or that they or
any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every such
person had been duly appointed or had duly continued in office
and was qualified to be a member of the Council.
50. The Council shall
cause proper minutes to be made of all appointments of officers
made by the Council and of the proceedings of all meetings of
the Association and of the Council and of committees of the
Council, and all business transacted at such meetings, and any
such minutes of any meeting, if purporting to be signed by the
Chairman of such meeting, or by the Chairman of the next
succeeding meeting, shall be sufficient evidence without any
further proof of the facts therein stated.
51. A resolution in
writing signed by all the members for the time being of the
Council or of any committee of the Council who are entitled to
receive notice of a meeting of the Council or of such committee
shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a
meeting of the Council or of such committee duly convened and. constituted.
13.
ACCOUNTS.
52. The Council shall
cause proper books of account to be kept with respect to:‑
(A) all sums of
money received and expended by the Association and the matters
in respect of which such receipts and expenditure take place;
(B) all sales and
purchases of goods by the Association; add
(C) the assets and
liabilities of the Association.
Proper books shall not
be deemed to be kept if there are not kept such books of account
as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of
the affairs of the Association and to explain its transactions.
53. The books of account
shall be kept at the office, or, subject to section 147(3) of
the Act, at such other place or places as the Council shall
think fit, and shall always be open to the inspection of the
members of the Council.
54. The Council shall
from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at
what times and places and under what conditions or regulations
the accounts and books of the Association or any of them shall
be open to the inspection of members not being members of the
Council, and no member (not being a member of the Council) shall
have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of
the Association except as conferred by statute or authorised by
the Council or by the Association in general meeting.
55. At the Annual
General Meeting In every year the Council shall lay before the
Association a proper income and expenditure account for the
period since the last preceding account (or in the case of the
first account since the incorporation of the Association) made
up to a date not more than four months before such meeting,
together with a proper balance sheet made up as at the same
date. Every such balance sheet shall be accompanied by proper
reports of the Council and the Auditors, and copies of such
account, balance sheet and reports (all of which shall be framed
in accordance with any statutory requirements for the time being
in force) and of any other documents required by law to be
annexed or attached thereto or to accompany the same shall not
less than twenty-one clear days before the date of the meeting,
subject nevertheless to the provisions of section 158 (1) (c) of
the Act, be sent to the Auditors and to all other persons
entitled to receive notices of General Meetings in the manner in
which notices are hereinafter directed to be served. The
Auditors' report shall be open to inspection and be read before
the meeting as required by section 182 of the Act.
AUDIT.
56. Once at least in
every year the accounts of the Association shall be examined and
the correctness of the income and expenditure
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account and balance
sheet ascertained by one or more properly qualified Auditor or
Auditors.
57. Auditors shall be
appointed and their duties regulated in accordance with sections
159 to 162 of the Act, the members of the Council being treated
as the Directors mentioned in those sections.
NOTICES.
58. A notice may be
served by the Association upon any member, either personally or
by sending it through the post in a prepaid letter, addressed to
such member at his registered address as appearing in the
register of members.
59. Any member
described in the register of members by an address not within
the United Kingdom, who shall from time to time give the
Association an address within the United Kingdom at which
notices may be served upon him, shall be entitled to have
notices served upon him at such address, but, save as aforesaid
and as provided by the Act, only those members who are described
in the register of members by an address within the United
Kingdom shall be entitled to receive notices from the
Association.
60. Any notice, if
served by post, shall be deemed to have been served on the day
following that on which the letter containing the same is put
into the post, and in proving such service it shall be
sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice was
properly addressed and put into the post office as a prepaid
letter.
DISSOLUTION.
61. Clause 7 of the
Memorandum of Association relating to the winding up and
dissolution of the Association shall have effect as if the
provisions thereof were repeated in these Articles.
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NAMES, ADDRESSES AND
DESCRIPTIONS OF SUBSCRIBERS.
Peter James Vincent
Coulter,
26, Brading Avenue, Southsea.
Clerk.
John Purdy,
2,
Idsworth Rd.,
Cowplain, Hants.
Builder.
Leslie
George Eyres, 59, Linda Grove,
Cowplain, Hants.
Builder.
Peter Greenhalgh
Crompton,
2, Berkeley Square,
Havant, Hants.
Estate
Agent.
Gladys Joyce Crompton,
2, Berkeley Square,
Havant, Hants.
Married Woman.
Barbara Alice Mew,
Drift House,
Brook Avenue,
Warsash, Hampshire.
Married
Woman.
Robert Alexander Mew,
17, Hampshire Terrace,
Portsmouth.
Solicitor.
Dated this 19th day of
January, 1962.
Witness to the above Signatures:‑
M. Mountain,
Clerk to
Messrs. Coffin, Mew & Clover,
