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FIP Ltd Constitution
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION FOR PRIVATECOMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE
Articles of AssociationofForum for Independent Psychotherapists
PART 1AINTERPRETATION AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
PART 1BOBJECTS AND APPLICATION OF INCOME AND PROPERTY
2A. Objects
2B. Application of income and property
PART 2DIRECTORSDIRECTORS' POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
9. Calling a directors' meeting
10. Participation in directors' meetings
11. Quorum for directors' meetings
12. Chairing of directors' meetings
16. Directors' discretion to make further rules
18. Termination of director's appointment
19. Directors' expenses
PART 3MEMBERS BECOMING AND CEASING TO BE A MEMBER
20. Applications for membership
PART 4ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS
37. Provision for employees on cessation of business
PART 5DISSOLUTION
In the articles, unless the context requires otherwise - "articles" means the company's articles of association;
"bankruptcy" includes individual insolvency proceedings in a jurisdiction other than England and Wales or Northern Ireland which have an effect similar to that of bankruptcy; "chair" has the meaning given in article 12;
"chair of the meeting" has the meaning given in article 25;
"document" includes, unless otherwise specified, any document sent or supplied in electronic form:
"electronic form" has the meaning given in section 1168 of the Companies Act 2006:
"ordinary resolution" has the meaning given in section 282 of the Companies Act 2006:
"participate", in relation to a directors' meeting, has the meaning given in article 10;
"proxy notice" has the meaning given in article 31;
The liability of each member is limited to £1, being the amount that each member undertakes to contribute to the assets of the company in the event of its being wound up while he is a member or within one year after he ceases to be a member, for - (a) payment of the company's debts and liabilities contracted before he ceases to be a member,
(a) to act as a professional body for its members
(b) to establish and maintain acceptable standards of professional conduct and accountability
(c) to promote the professional development of its members
(d) to preserve, promote and advance the development of psychoanalytic psychotherapy
(e) to advance and encourage knowledge and practice in psychoanalytic psychotherapy
(f) to inform others in related fields in respect of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and to encourage the interchange of information and opinion
(g) to educate and assist the general public as to the use and value of psychoanalytic psychotherapy
(h) to foster the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the Community
(a) The income and property of the company shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the objects.
(b) None of the income or property of the company may be paid out by way of dividend or otherwise by way of profit to any member of the company, although this does not prevent a member receiving a benefit as a beneficiary of the company's services or receiving reasonable remuneration for any goods or services supplied to the company.
(1) The members may, by special resolution, direct the directors to take, or retrain from taking, specified action.
(1) Subject to the articles, the directors may delegate any of the powers which are conferred on them under the articles - (a) to such person or committee;
(e) on such terms and conditions; as they think fit.
(b) no provision of the articles requires it to have more than one director.
(2) Notice of any directors' meeting must indicate - (a) its proposed date and time;
(1) Subject to the articles, directors participate- in a directors' meeting, or part of a directors' meeting, when - (a) the meeting has been called and takes place in accordance with the articles,
(2) In determining whether directors are participating in a directors" meeting, it is irrelevant where any director is or how they communicate with each other.
(3) If the total number of directors for the time being is less than the quorum required, the directors must not take any decision other than a decision - (a) to appoint further directors, or
(1) The person appointed as chair by the members pursuant to these Articles from time to time shall chair directors' meetings.
(3) If the chair is not participating in a directors' meeting within ten minutes of the time at which it was to start, the participating directors must appoint one of themselves to chair it.
(1) If the numbers of votes for and against a proposal are equal, the chair or other director chairing the meeting has a casting vote.
(3) This paragraph applies when - (a) the company by ordinary resolution disapplies the provision of the articles which would otherwise prevent a director from being counted as participating in the decision-making process;
(4) For the purposes of this article, the following are permitted causes - (a) a guarantee given, or to be given, by or to a director in respect of an obligation incurred by or on behalf of the company or any of its subsidiaries;
(7) If any question as to the right to participate in the meeting (or part of the meeting) should arise in respect of the chair, the question is to be decided by a decision of the directors at that meeting, for which purpose the chair is not to be counted as participating in the meeting (or that part of the meeting) for voting or quorum purposes.
(1) Any person who is willing to act as a director, and is permitted by law to do so, may be appointed to be a director - (a) by ordinary resolution, or
A person ceases to be a director as soon as - (a) that person ceases to be a director by virtue of any provision of the Companies Act 2006 or is prohibited from being a director by law;
(f) notification is received by the company from the director that the director is resigning from office, and such resignation has taken effect in accordance with its terms;
(g) that person is removed from office by a resolution passed pursuant to section 168 of the Companies Act 2006;
(h) that person fails without reasonable excuse to attend three consecutive board meetings; or
(i) a majority of the directors vote to remove that person from office on any ground PROVIDED THAT he or she has been given an opportunity to be heard at a directors' meeting.
The company may pay any reasonable expenses which the directors properly incur in connection with their attendance at - (a) meetings of directors or committees of directors,
(c) separate meetings of the holders of debentures of the company,
PART 3MEMBERSBECOMING AND CEASING TO BE A MEMBER
(1) No person shall become a member of the company unless - (a) that person has completed an application for membership in a form approved by the directors, and
(2) Application for membership shall be available to those persons who, in the opinion of the directors, are of good standing and duly qualified or accredited.
(3) The directors shall have the power to decline membership to any person where there is a sanction or restriction outstanding from any institution or organisation with similar aims and objectives to the company.
(1) A member may withdraw from membership of the company by giving 7 days' notice to the company in writing.
(3) A person's membership terminates when that person dies or ceases to exist.
(4) The directors shall have the right for good and sufficient reason to terminate the membership of any member PROVIDED ALWAYS that the member concerned shall have a right to be heard before a final decision is made.Where a complaint against a member is under investigation the directors may temporarily suspend that person's membership pending the outcome of the investigation.
(5) Failure to pay any subscription or any other sum due to the company within three months of it falling due shall result in the disqualification of the relevant member.
The company shall hold an annual general meeting once in every calendar year, and each annual general meeting shall take place not more than 15 months after the previous annual general meeting.
(2) A person is able to exercise the right to vote at a general meeting when - (a) that person is able to vote, during the meeting, on resolutions put to the vote at the meeting, and
No business other than the appointment of the chair of the meeting is to be transacted at a general meeting if the persons attending it do not constitute a quorum.
(1) The chair shall chair general meetings if present and willing to do so.
(2) If the chair is unwilling to chair the meeting or is not present within ten minutes of the time at which a meeting was due to start - (a) the directors present, or
(b) (if no directors are present), the meeting, must appoint a director or member to chair the meeting, and the appointment of the chair of the meeting must be the first business of the meeting.
(3) The person chairing a meeting in accordance with this article is referred to as "the chair of the meeting".
26.Appointment of chair
(1) At each Annual General Meeting the membership shall appoint one of the directors for the forthcoming year to be the chair for the forthcoming year.
(2) Candidates for the position of chair shall be nominated and seconded at or before the Annual General Meeting and if there are two or more candidates the one who secures the most votes shall become the chair.
(3) If there is no Annual General Meeting in any one year then the existing chair shall remain chair until the next Annual General Meeting, save that if in the meantime he or she ceases to be a director then the directors shall choose one of their number to be the interim chair.
(1) If the persons attending a general meeting within half an hour of the time at which the meeting was due to start do not constitute a quorum, or if during a meeting a quorum ceases to be present, the chair of the meeting must adjourn it.
(2) The chair of the meeting may adjourn a general meeting at which a quorum is present if - (a) the meeting consents to an adjournment, or
(b) it appears to the chair of the meeting that an adjournment is necessary to protect the safety of any person attending the meeting or ensure that the business of the meeting is conducted in an orderly manner.
(4) When adjourning a general meeting, the chair of the meeting must - (a) either specify' the time and place to which it is adjourned or state that it is to continue at a time and place to be fixed by the directors, and
(5) If the continuation of an adjourned meeting is to take place more than 14 days after it was adjourned, the company must give at least 7 clear days' notice of it (that is, excluding the day of the adjourned meeting and the day on which the notice is given) - (a) to the same persons to whom notice of the company's general meetings is required to be given, and
(1) A poll on a resolution may be demanded - (a) in advance of the general meeting where it is to be put to the vote, or
(2) A poll may be demanded by - (a) the chair of the meeting;
(3) A demand for a poll may be withdrawn if - (a) the poll has not yet been taken, and
(b) the chair of the meeting consents to the withdrawal.
(1) Proxies may only validly be appointed by a notice in writing (a "proxy notice") which - (a) states the name and address of the member appointing the proxy;
(b) identifies the person appointed to be that member's proxy and the general meeting in
(4) Unless a proxy notice indicates otherwise, it must be treated as - (a) allowing the person appointed under it as a proxy discretion as to how to vote on any ancillary or procedural resolutions put to the meeting, and
(1) An ordinary resolution to be proposed at a general meeting may be amended by ordinary resolution if - (a) notice of the proposed amendment is given to the company in writing by a person entitled to vote at the general meeting at which it is to be proposed not less than 48 hours before the meeting is to take place (or such later time as the chair of the meeting may determine), and
(b) the proposed amendment does not, in the reasonable opinion of the chair of the meeting, materially alter the scope of the resolution.
(2) A special resolution to be proposed at a general meeting may be amended by ordinary resolution, if - (a) the chair of the meeting proposes the amendment at the general meeting at which the resolution is to be proposed, and
(3) If the chair of the meeting, acting in good faith, wrongly decides that an amendment to a resolution is out of order, the chair's error does not invalidate the vote on that resolution.
(2) Subject to the articles, any notice or document to be sent or supplied to a director in connection with "the taking of decisions by directors may also be sent or supplied by the means by which that director has asked to be sent or supplied with such notices or documents for the time being.
(4) For the purposes of this article, an authorised person is - (a) any director of the company;
(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a relevant director of the company or an associated company may be indemnified out of the company's assets against - (a) any liability incurred by that director in connection with any negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust in relation to the company or an associated company,
(2) This article does not authorise any indemnity which would be prohibited or rendered void by
any provision of the Companies Acts or by any other provision of law.
(3) In this article - (a) companies are associated if one is a subsidiary of the other or both are subsidiaries of the same body corporate, and
(b) a ''relevant director" means any director or former director of the company or an associated company.
41. The directors may decide to purchase and maintain insurance, at the expense of the company, for the benefit of any relevant director in respect of any relevant loss.
(1) In this article - (a) a "relevant director" means any director or former director of the company or an associated company,
(b) a "relevant loss" means any loss or liability incurred by a relevant director in connection with that director's duties or powers in relation to the company, any associated company or any pension fund or employees' share scheme of the company or associated company, and
(1) The members of the company may at any time before (and in expectation of) its dissolution resolve that any net assets of the company after all its debts and liabilities have been paid (or provision for them has been made) shall on or before the dissolution of the company be applied (i) directly in pursuance of the company's objects, (ii) by transfer to another not-for-profit organisation or organisations whose purposes are similar to the company's objects or (iii) to any other not-for-profit organisation or organisations for use for particular purposes which fall within the company's objects.
(2) Subject to any such resolution of the members, the directors may at any time before (and in expectation of) the company's dissolution resolve that any net assets of the company after all its debts and liabilities have been paid (or provision made for them) shall on or before the dissolution of the company be applied in any manner set out in sub-paragraphs (i) to (iii) of article 40(1).
(3) In no circumstances shall the net assets of the company be paid to, or distributed amongst, the members of the company (except to a member that is a charity), and if no resolution is made by either the members or the directors in accordance with this article 40 the net assets of the company shall be applied for such purposes as are directed by the Court.