RULE 8 
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Honorary General Secretary in consultation with the President may, 
if necessary, call a meeting of the Council without notice immediately 
after the Annual General Meeting. 
<.b) A quorum at a meeting of the Council shall consist of five members. 
(c) The Council may each year appoint from their own body with or with- 
out the addition of other members such Committees as they may 
determine and shall define all duties and powers of such Committees 
and the number of members to form a quorum thereof, and may 
delegate any of their powers and duties to such Committees. The 
President, Honorary General Secretary, and Honorary Treasurer of 
the Society are ex officio members of all such Committees, but their 
attendance is optional unless they hold office in the Committee. 
(d) Any meiubi'i- of the Council or of a Committee who fails to attend 
throe consecutive meetings shall cease to be a member thereof 
unless adequate reason for non-attendance is given. After non- 
attendance without adequate reason being given at two successive 
meetings the Secretary concerned shall inform that member that 
non-attendance at the next meeting may lead to his removal from 
the Council or Committee. Decision on such removal shall be made 
by the Council. Vacancies on the Council caused in this way or 
by death or resignation may, when urgently necessary, be filled by 
the Council in advance of a General Meeting. Temporary appoint- 
ments to fill vacancies on Committees may, when urgently neces- 
sary before the next meeting of the Council, be made by the Officers 
in consultation with the Committee. 
24. NOTICES OF MEETINGS AND EXCURSIONS 
Notice of a General Meeting, and the agenda of such meeting, shall 
be sent to every member by post at least fourteen days before the date 
of the meeting. The programme of field meetings shall be sent to all 
members at latest on the first day of January each year. 
25. CASTING VOTE OF CHAIRMAN 
When there is an equality of votes at any Council or General Meeting, 
the Chairman shall have a second, or casting, vote. 
26. ALTERATION OF RULES 
No Rtile shall be made or altered except at a General Meeting, and then 
only after twenty-eight days’ notice has previously been given in writing 
to the Honorary General Secretary, who shall give fourteen days’ notice 
to all members of the Society of the proposed addition or alteration to 
the Rules. Not less than two-thirds of the votes of those present must 
be in favour of change before any alteration of Rule is made. 
27. PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS 
The proceedings of all General Meetings, Field Meetings and Conferences 
shall be recorded in the Society’s periodical publications. 
