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Memorandum
and Articles of Association
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF
MIDLAND AND GREAT NORTHERN JOINT RAILWAY SOCIETY
ACCOUNTS 55. The Council shall cause accounting records to be kept in
accordance with the provisions of the Act.
56. The accounting records shall be kept at the registered office of
the Society or, subject to the provisions of the Act, at such other
place or places as the Council thinks fit, and shall always be open
to the inspection of the officers of the Society.
57. The Council shall from time to time determine whether and to
what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions
or regulations the accounts and books of the Society or any of them
shall be open to the inspection of members not being members of the
Council, and no member (not being a member of the Council) shall
have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the
Society except as conferred by statute or authorised by the Council
or by the Society in General Meeting.
58. The Council shall from time to time in accordance with the
provisions of the Act, cause to be prepared and to be laid before
the Society in General Meeting such profit and loss accounts,
balance sheets, group accounts (if any) and reports as are referred
to in those provisions.
59. A copy of every balance sheet (including every document required
by law to be annexed thereto) which is to be laid before the Society
in General Meeting, together with a copy of the auditor's report (if
any), and Council's report, shall not less than twenty-one days
before the date of the meeting be sent to every member of the
Society and every person entitled to receive notice of General
Meetings of the Society. AUDIT 60. If required by the Act auditors shall be appointed and their
duties regulated in accordance with the provisions of the Act.
NOTICES 61. A notice may be given by the Society to any member either
personally, by electronic communication, or by sending it by post to
him or to his registered address, or (if he has no registered
address within the United Kingdom) to the address, if any, within
the United Kingdom supplied by him to the Society for the giving of
notice to him. Where a notice is sent by post, service of the notice
shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, prepaying and
posting a letter containing the notice, and to have been effected in
the case of a notice of a meeting at the expiration of 24 hours
after the letter containing the same is posted, and in any other
case at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the
ordinary course of post.
A notice given by electronic communication shall be an address for
the time being notified for that purpose and service shall be deemed
to be effective upon proof that the electronic communication was
sent and at the expiration of 24 hours after the time it was sent.
62. Notice of every General Meeting shall be given in any manner
hereinbefore authorised to:
(a) every member entitled to receive notification as defined in the
Society's Bye Laws from time to time except those members who
(having no registered address within the United Kingdom) have not
supplied to the Society an address within the United Kingdom for the
giving of notices to them;
(b) every person being a trustee in bankruptcy of a member where the
member but for his bankruptcy would be entitled to receive notice of
the meeting;
(c) the auditors for the time being of the Society (if any); and
(d) each member of the Council.
No other person shall be entitled to receive notices of General
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