Local constitutions take effect only after ratification by the Provincial Executive Council. Locals must hold at least one general meeting per year and are required to convene a general meeting, local council meeting or executive committee meeting at the request of their district representative or an officer of the Association. Annual reports are required and provision is made for determining electoral votes. The 51 regular locals vary so much in membership, geographic coverage and in other ways that two standard constitutions have been approved. One of these provides for a local council organization and the other for a sublocal structure.
Some locals adopt a constitution providing for both.
The basic standard constitutions and standard sublocal constitution are printed at the end of this chapter. Objects Locals are established to promote the objects of the Association. A general but brief statement of objects appears in Section 4 of the Teaching Profession Act . The purposes of the Association and hence of its locals are to advance and promote the cause of education in the province, to improve the teaching profession, to arouse and increase public interest in education and to cooperate with other organizations having similar aims. As might be expected, locals pursue these objects keeping in mind the needs of their own members.