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20 – REMOVAL OF OFFICERS
19 – ELECTION OF PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY
(a) The Executive Board will elect from among its members, a President, Vice President and Secretary by an attendance ballot at the first meeting of the Executive Board after the AGM or, if the Executive Board was elected under clause 17(b), the first meeting of the Executive Board after the meeting at which the election took place, and in accordance with this clause 19. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of clause 32 do not apply to such an election.
(b) To be qualified for the Office of President, the candidate must have served as a member of the Executive Board for the preceding term.
(c) Members of the Executive Board will nominate for the positions of President, Vice President or Secretary by filling out a nomination form and returning it to the Returning Officer. For the avoidance of doubt, members of the Executive Board may self-nominate for the positions of President, Vice President and Secretary.
(d) Where there is more than one nomination for any one position, there shall be an election by secret ballot and the result ascertained on the basis of preferential voting. The names of the candidates nominated shall be arranged in alphabetic order according to their surnames.
(e) If the result of an election conducted in accordance with clause 19(d) is a tie between two Officers, the winner will be decided by the flip of a coin.
(f) Subject to this clause 19, the President, Vice President and Secretary will preside for the ensuing two years.
(g) If the position of President, Vice President or Secretary becomes vacant, the Executive Board must elect a person to the position in accordance with clauses 21(b) and 32; or appoint a person to the position in accordance with clause 21(a) within 14 days after the vacancy arises, until the retiring officer’s term of Office has expired, in accordance with section 146 of the Act.
(h) Until the positions of President, Vice President and Secretary have been filled in accordance with clause 19(g), any meetings of the Executive Board shall be chaired by such person as the Executive Board determines by way of a show of hands.
20 – REMOVAL OF OFFICERS
(a) Except as provided for in clauses 6(c), and 20(c), the power to remove members of the Executive Board and all persons holding Office will be at the discretion of Members. Such removal must be passed by a resolution carried by a two-thirds majority of the Members present at a Special General Meeting called for that purpose.
(b) A member of the Executive Board or a person elected to an Office within the Association will not be removed from Office in accordance with clause 20(a) unless, after they have been afforded a reasonable opportunity of being heard in their defence, they have been found guilty by a two-thirds majority of the Members present at the meeting, of a misappropriation of the funds of the Association or a substantial breach of this Constitution, or of gross misbehaviour, or gross neglect of duty.
(c) A position on the Executive Board will be deemed vacant and the person holding such position will cease to be a member of the Executive Board if:
(i) the person sends into the Executive Board their written resignation; or
(ii) the person is removed from Office in accordance with clause 20(a).
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