Hong Kong Regulations

HONG KONG ACADEMY OF MEDICINE REGULATION - SECT 9

Terms of office of Council members

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The term of office for Officers and elected Council members other than ex
officio members shall be 2 years.

(2) No person shall hold the post of President of the Academy for more than 2
consecutive terms of office.

(3) (Repealed L.N. 125 of 2002)

(4) No Fellow shall serve more than 12 years on the Council during his
lifetime, provided that the year of service of the immediate past President as
a Council member shall not count.

(5) The period of service of any Council member of 182 days or less in a year
shall not be counted, while service of more than 182 days shall be counted as
a whole year.

(6) (a) A Council member may resign from the Council by written notification
to the Honorary Secretary.

   (b)  In such case or whenever a casual vacancy should arise the Council
        shall until the next Annual General Meeting have the power to co-opt
        another person to fill the vacancy or to leave the post vacant.

(7) No person may hold more than one post on the Council concurrently, in
particular an Officer or an elected Council member may not at the same time
hold the post of President of a College. (Enacted 1994)