In the Constitution the words standing in the first column of the Table next hereinafter contained shall bear the meanings set opposite to them respectively in the second column thereof, if not inconsistent with the subject or context:

The Council in session shall consist of:

The President, the Vice-President and other members of the Council (exclusive of the Immediate Past President) shall be elected from among the Professional Members and Corporate Members' representatives in the manner as hereinafter prescribed.

Each session of Council shall commence at the Annual General Meeting to be held in June.

The President, Vice-President, Hon. Secretary, Hon. Treasurer, and the 8 General Members shall be elected by vote of the Professional Members and Corporate Members' representatives at the Annual General Meeting and shall hold office for two sessions.

The Hon. Treasurer shall not be re-elected for more than two sessions consecutively. The President shall not be re-elected for more than four sessions consecutively.

Not less than two weeks before the date of the Annual General Meeting nominations for election to the Council shall be invited from Professional Members and Corporate Members' representative. All nominations must be proposed and seconded and shall bear the written consent of the person so nominated.

At the Annual General Meeting two or more Professional Members and/or Corporate Members' representatives shall be chosen as Scrutineers to count the votes and report the result to the President and to the Annual General Meeting. The Scrutineers shall reject any voting paper on which a Member has voted for a number more than that prescribed on the voting paper.

In event of a vacancy occurring in the office of President, the Council shall appoint the Vice-President for the office.

In event of a vacancy occurring in the office of the Vice-President, or any of the Council Members, the Council may appoint any suitable Professional Member or Corporate Members' representative to fill such vacancy until the end of the session.

A Council Member who without leave of the Council is absent from three consecutive Council Meeting in any one sessional year shall be deemed to have vacated his office, subject to the Council so resolving.

The President shall take the Chair at all meetings of the Association and of the Council at which he is present, and shall regulate the proceedings.

In the absence of the President, the Vice-President shall preside at all Meetings and shall regulate the proceedings. In the absence of the President and the Vice-President the Meeting may elect any Member of the Council to take the Chair.

The Council, in addition to the power hereinafter specially conferred upon them, shall be vested with the direction and management of the Association for properly carrying out the objects of the Association in accordance with the Constitution.

The Council shall have full power to make, alter, add to or repeal Bye-Laws and Rules regulating the affairs of the Association on any matters not provided for in the Constitution. Such Bye-Laws or Rules so made, added to, altered or repealed shall come into operation at such time as is fixed by the Council. The Council shall further have full power to decide all questions relating to the management of the Association and all questions arising out of or not covered by the Constitution, Bye-Laws or Rules and such decision shall be final unless and until altered or reversed by resolution of the members of the Association at an Extraordinary General Meeting.

The decision of the Council on all matters dealt with by them in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, the Bye-Laws and the Rules and such Resolutions as aforesaid, shall be final and binding on all members of the Association.

The Council shall have full power to make, alter, add to or repeal Bye-Laws and Rules regulating the affairs of the Association on any matters not provided for in the Constitution. Such Bye-Laws or Rules so made, added to, altered or repealed shall come into operation at such time as is fixed by the Council. The Council shall further have full power to decide all questions relating to the management of the Association and all questions arising out of or not covered by the Constitution, Bye-Laws or Rules and such decision shall be final unless and until altered or reversed by resolution of the members of the Association at an Extraordinary General Meeting.

The Council shall meet at least once a month or as often as the business of the Association may require; and may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body. At every meeting, six Council Members shall constitute a quorum.

The Council may so far as it deems expedient delegate any of its powers to Committees appointed to deal with special matters or business.

A Statement of the funds of the Association, and of the receipts and payments during the past year, terminating on the thirty-first (31 st) of March shall be made under the direction of the Council, and after having been verified and signed by the Auditors, shall be laid before the Annual General Meeting.

The Council shall draw up a yearly report on the state of the Association which shall be presented at the Annual General Meeting.

The Council shall cause true accounts to be kept of all sums of money received and expended by the Association and of matters in respect of which such receipts and expenditure take place and of all the properties, credits and liabilities of the Association.

All monies belonging to the Association received by the Honorary Treasurer shall be deposited in the account of the Association to be opened at a bank approved by the Council and payments of all accounts that are certified as correct by the Council shall be made therefrom by cheque signed by any two of the following:

The Council has power to authorise the expenditure of a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) per month from the Association’s funds for the Association’s purposes.

The financial year of the Association shall close on the thirty-first day of March in each year.

Two Honorary Auditors for the ensuing year shall be appointed by a resolution of the Professional Members and Corporate Members' representatives at each Annual General Meeting. They shall not be Council Members and shall hold office for one session only and shall not be re-elected for the following session.

The Honorary Auditors shall have access at all reasonable times to the accounts of the pecuniary transactions of the Association and they shall verify and sign the annual statement of the accounts before it is submitted by the Council to the Annual General Meeting.

The Seal of the Association shall be affixed to such certificates, deeds and documents as require to be sealed, only in the presence of the President and the Honorary Secretary, or such persons as they may respectively appoint for the purpose; and the President and the Honorary Secretary or such other persons as aforesaid, shall sign very instrument to which the Seal of the Association is affixed.

The Annual General Meeting of the Association shall be held during the month of June on a date to be fixed by the Council, to receive and deliberate upon the annual report of the Council, the annual statement of accounts, to elect Members to the Council, to appoint Auditors for the ensuing year, and to transact any other business of which fourteen clear days’ notice has been given in writing to the Honorary Secretary. Not less than three weeks’ notice shall be given to Members and Associates of the Annual General Meeting. At least twenty-five percent of the total Professional Members and Corporate Members' representatives or 30 Professional Members and Corporate Members’ representatives, whichever is the lesser, shall be present at every Annual General Meeting for its proceedings to be valid.

In the event of a quorum not being present within thirty minutes of the fixed time for the commencement of the meeting, the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same place and the same day and hour in the following week, or to any other venue or date as the Council may direct but subject to a minimum notice of seven days in this case, when the Professional Members and Corporate Members' representatives present, whatever their number shall constitute a quorum. The accidental omission to send notice of a meeting to or the non-receipt of a notice by any member shall not invalidate the proceedings at the meeting. The adjourned meeting with insufficient quorum shall have not power to alter, amend or make additions to the existing Constitution.

At all Meetings, every person present and entitled to vote shall cast one vote only even if he is both a Professional Member and a Corporate Member's representative. At all Meetings questions shall be decided according to the majority of votes properly cast thereat, and in the case of equality, the President or other person presiding shall have a second or casting vote. ONLY PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS AND CORPORATE MEMBERS' REPRESENTATIVES HAVE VOTING RIGHTS.

The Council may at any time call an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Professional Members and Corporate Members' representatives for a specific purpose relating to the direction and management of the concerns of the Association; and the Council are at all times bound to do so on a requisition in writing of fifteen per cent of the total number of Professional Members and Corporate Members' representatives. Such requisition shall state the matters to be brought before and the Resolutions (if any) to be moved at such Extraordinary General Meeting.

A notice shall be sent to all Members at least twenty one days before the time appointed by the Council for such Extraordinary General Meetings and the notice shall specify the general nature of the matters to be brought before and the resolutions (if any) to be moved at such meeting, and no other than that business shall be transacted at that meeting.

Twenty-five percent of the total Professional Members and Corporate Members' representatives or 30 Professional Members and Corporate Members’ representatives, whichever is the lesser, present shall constitute a quorum. In the event of a quorum not being present within thirty minutes of the time fixed for the commencement of the meeting, the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same place and the same day and hour in the following week, or to any other venue or date as the Council may direct but subject to a minimum notice of seven days in this case, when the Professional Members and Corporate Members' representatives present, whatever their number, shall constitute a quorum. The accidental omission to send notice of a meeting to or the non-receipt of a notice by any member shall not invalidate the proceedings at the meeting. The adjourned meeting with insufficient quorum shall have no power to alter, amend or make additions to the existing Constitution.

Any proposal involving an amendment to the Constitution shall not be carried except by a two-thirds majority vote expressed at an Annual General Meeting or Extraordinary General Meeting called for the purpose. The amendments shall not come into force without the sanction of the Registrar of Societies.

In any instance in which the Council shall be of the opinion that the conduct of any Member shall become subject of enquiry with a view to ascertaining whether in the interests of the Association there are grounds for disciplinary action, or in any case in which ten or more Members shall think fit to draw up and sign a proposal for disciplinary enquiry to be taken against a Member, on any ground whatever, and shall deliver the same to the Hon. Secretary to be laid before the Council for their consideration, the Council shall make such enquiry and take such action in accordance with such Disciplinary Regulations as may be promulgated by the Council from time to time.

If a Member is convicted by a competent tribunal of felony, embezzlement, larceny, misdemeanour or other offence which in the opinion of the Council renders him unfit to be a Member, the Council shall have the right to remove his name from the Register thereby expelling him from the Association.

All Members are required to order their conduct so as to uphold the dignity, standing and reputation of the Association. For the purpose of ensuring the fulfillment of this requirement, the Council may make, amend and rescind Rules to be observed by Members with regard to their conduct in any respect which may be relevant to their position or intended position as members of the Association and may publish directions or pronouncements as to specific conduct which is to be regarded as proper or as improper as the case may be.

Any alteration in the residence or place of business of any Member, shall be notified by him to the Hon. Secretary. A notice to any member sent by post to his address in the Register of Members shall be deemed to be duly delivered.

The annual subscription, etc payable by Members shall be at rates proposed by the Council from time to time.

All annual subscriptions are due on the 1 st day of June in each year for the year then commencing.

Every member shall be liable for the payment of his annual subscription until he has signified to the Hon. Secretary in writing his desire to resign, having previously paid all arrears, including the subscription for the year current at the date of his notice, or until he has forfeited his right to remain in, or be attached to the Association.

Every person whose subscription is six months in arrears shall be reported to the Council, who shall direct application to be made to him according to such form as the Council may prescribe and in the event of its becoming one additional month in arrear, after such application, the Council shall have the power, after remonstrance by letter in the form so provided, of expelling the defaulter from the Association by erasing his name from the Register.

The Council may, if they find good reason to do so, reinstate under such conditions as they may see fit, any person who has been a Member, whose name has been removed from the Register. These cases must be considered and reported upon to the Council by a Committee appointed by the Council for the purpose.

The Association shall not be dissolved except with the consent of not less than two-thirds of the Professional Members and Corporate Members' representatives for the time being resident in Singapore expressed at an Extraordinary General Meeting called for the purpose. In the event of the Association being dissolved as above all debts and liabilities legally incurred shall be fully discharged and the remaining funds if any shall be disposed of, as decided at such General Meeting. Notice of dissolution shall be given within seven days of the dissolution to the Registrar of Societies.

The Council may decide on any matter not provided for in the Constitution, subject to such decision being not repugnant to the Constitution and being rectified at the next Annual General Meeting.