Further detail
There is a huge amount of underpinning detail required to make all the main proposals work. This is now all set out in this website. Links to each area of detail are below.
Definitions
These will be drafted by Brodies LLP (the College's solicitors) when the rest of the governing documents are finalised.
Membership
- There is only one change proposed here, which is to clarify how a Fellow or Member is removed from the College.
Membership meetings
- How Trustees call a meeting
- Requisitioning a meeting - the Membership themselves
- How the Membership put forward a motion
- Power to have in-person and hybrid meetings
- Meeting management: chairing, quorum, adjourning, voting, proxy voting (if any)
Board of Trustees
- Purpose
- Powers
- Minimum and maximum size of the Board
- How Trustees become Trustees, how long they stay on the Board, what happens if a Trustee's term ends before the expected time
- Trustee meeting management (frequency, quorum, voting etc)
- Conflicts of interest
- Trustee investment responsibilities
Council
- Purpose
- How people get on Council, how long they stay on Council, what happens if a Council member's term ends before the expected time
- Council meeting management (frequency, quorum, voting etc)
Administration
- Detail of setting up (and closing) Faculties
- Detail of setting up (and closing down) Committees
- Detail of internal procedures, eg processes for electing Fellows
- Records and accounts
- Communications with the Membership
- Common Seal, if anything else is needed other than what's in the Charter
- How to amend the Laws or the Charter
