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ITTF
Handbook 2009
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Description |
| 1.19 |
GENERAL MEETINGS |
| 1.19.01 |
Place and Time |
| 1.19.01.01 |
An AGM shall be held at the place, and during the period, of the World Championships or, if the World Championships is not held at the due time, at such other place and date as the Board may determine. |
| 1.19.01.02 |
An Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) shall be convened within 10 weeks of receipt by the Secretariat of a requisition in writing submitted by not less than 1/4 of the Associations not in arrears (1.16.3.3), representing at least 2 Continents. |
| 1.19.02 |
Notice of Meeting |
| 1.19.02.01 |
Notice of the meeting, giving details of the place, date and time and the business to be transacted, together with a proxy form, shall be sent by post to each Association; the person and address to which the notice is sent shall be as last notified by each Association to the Secretariat. |
| 1.19.02.02 |
For an AGM the notice shall be sent not later than 2 calendar months before the date of the meeting. |
| 1.19.02.03 |
For an EGM the notice shall be sent not later than 1 calendar month before the date of the meeting. |
| 1.19.03 |
Notice of Business |
| 1.19.03.01 |
Details in writing of business to be dealt with at an AGM must reach the Secretariat not later than 3 calendar months before the date of the meeting. |
| 1.19.03.02 |
Notice of the actual closing date in each year for the receipt of business and propositions shall be sent to all Associations by the Secretariat not later than 6 calendar months before the date of the meeting. |
| 1.19.03.03 |
Business and propositions, other than changes to the Constitution or the Laws, of which due notice has not been given but which, in the opinion of the Executive Committee, relate to the business in hand without introducing a new principle or relate to an emergency may be admitted by a vote in favour of 2/3 of the votes cast at the AGM. |
| 1.19.03.04 |
The requisition for an EGM shall specify the business for which the meeting is to be convened and no other business except the confirmation of the Minutes of the previous General Meeting shall be transacted at such a meeting. |
| 1.19.04 |
Procedure |
| 1.19.04.01 |
The agenda for an AGM shall include: |
| 1.19.04.01.01 |
the appointment of a Chairman; |
| 1.19.04.01.02 |
a roll call of the Associations present or represented by proxies (1.19.7); |
| 1.19.04.01.03 |
the appointment of scrutineers; |
| 1.19.04.01.04 |
the confirmation of the Minutes of the previous General Meeting; |
| 1.19.04.01.05 |
the consideration of applications for membership; |
| 1.19.04.01.06 |
the receipt of reports from President, Deputy President, Executive Vice-Presidents and Presidents of Continental Federations which, with the possible exception of that from the President, shall be given in writing; |
| 1.19.04.01.07 |
the receipt of reports from Committees and the Olympics Commission; |
| 1.19.04.01.08 |
the receipt of the audited statement of accounts for the previous year; |
| 1.19.04.01.09 |
the consideration of propositions and the reports of any Committees that have studied them; |
| 1.19.04.01.10 |
when appropriate, the election of President, Executive Vice-Presidents and apointment of Auditors; |
| 1.19.04.01.11 |
the consideration of arrangements for future World Championships. |
| 1.19.04.02 |
No speaker shall speak more than once on a proposition except that the proposer shall have the right of reply and that the Chairman may, at his discretion, allow a speaker to speak more than once to answer a query arising from his original speech. |
| 1.19.04.03 |
The Chairman shall decide how many speakers will be permitted to speak on a proposition and when the vote shall be taken, except that a motion "that the question now be put" shall be voted on immediately, without further discussion; if such a motion is carried the proposition or any amendment before the meeting shall then be voted on immediately, without further discussion, subject to the right of reply by the mover of the substantive proposition. |
| 1.19.04.04 |
A question once decided may not be reverted to for re‑discussion and re‑vote unless the Chairman rules, as a matter of urgency, that a case has been made for supposing that the decision taken may jeopardise the whole welfare of the ITTF; a motion to challenge the Chairman's ruling that the matter is not of sufficient urgency to justify reconsideration must be taken whenever it is moved. |
| 1.19.05 |
Voting |
| 1.19.05.01 |
Each Association not in arrears shall have 1 vote. |
| 1.19.05.02 |
Questions shall be decided by a simple majority of the votes cast except that: |
| 1.19.05.02.01 |
changes to the Constitution, the acceptance of belated or emergency business or propositions and the revocation of a World Championships option require a majority of 2/3 of the votes cast; |
| 1.19.05.02.02 |
expulsions from membership and changes to the Laws of Table Tennis require a 3/4 majority of the votes cast; |
| 1.19.05.02.03 |
dissolution of the ITTF requires a 4/5 majority of the votes cast. |
| 1.19.05.03 |
If there is an equality of votes on an administrative or financial matter the Chairman shall have a casting vote; if there is an equality of votes on any other matter the motion shall fail and the meeting shall proceed with the next business. |
| 1.19.05.04 |
Voting other than in elections shall be by roll call in alphabetical order of Associations, starting with a name drawn at random, except where the Chairman is satisfied after a show of hands that such procedure is not necessary. |
| 1.19.05.05 |
Each President of Continental Federation shall nominate 2 persons from his Continent, for approval by the meeting, to form a list of scrutineers. |
| 1.19.05.06 |
For each vote requiring scrutineers, including elections, names shall be taken from the list in alphabetical order, omitting the representative of any Association having a particular interest in the item, which is the subject of the vote. |
| 1.19.06 |
Elections |
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