The Association of Scotland’s Self-Caterers’ Annual General Meeting for Members will be held online on Wednesday 13th November 2024 from 10.30am – 11.30am.
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In preparation for the meeting, you will be able to access the official AGM documents below.
SPECIAL RESOLUTION
(1) THAT, under this resolution, the Company is proposing to amend its articles of association to allow amendment including, but are not limited, to:
a. general amendment to capitalise defined terms such as ‘member, and ‘director’ to ‘Member’ and ‘Director’
b. definition of the Company at article 2 and introduction of a definition of the CEO at Article 10;
c. clarification at article 4 that certain of the Objects of the Company also apply to Associate Members;
d. amendments of the Objects and other references to the operation of the Company in respect of short-term let and short stay accommodation providers and agents and not restricted to just self-catering accommodation operators and agents;
e. at article 11, under the heading ‘Membership’ allow deletion of outdated requirements for the signature of a member’s agreement by members of the Co-operative, being the Company, as this procedure was amended by the membership and joining process now being an online process;
f. at article 22, a refund process is introduced in respect of the member’s subscription payment for members cancelling within 14 days of joining;
g. at article 28, the right of appeal to the main general meeting is removed;
h. at article 45, the introduction of the right for the individual appointed as Chair of the general meetings and/or Directors’ meetings may appoint a Vice-Chair and provision in articles 45 and 111 for the Vice-Chair to chair the meetings of the Chair is unable or unwilling to do so; and
i. minor tidying up amendments such as incorrect references to article numbers and other amendments.
(2) the full text of the new articles are attached to this notice of meeting.
(3) with effect from the conclusion of the meeting the draft articles of association produced to the meeting and, for the purposes of identification, initialled by the one of the Directors attending the meeting shall be adopted as the articles of association of the Company in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, the Company’s existing articles of association.
(4) a further copy of the proposed new articles of association are available and will be sent by email as soon as reasonably practicable after a request for copies is made. Requests for copies should be made to membership@assc.co.uk.