CONSTITUTION

1. The name of the Association is THE SCOTTISH SECURITY ASSOCIATIONAddress: Scottish Security Association, P.O. Box 308, Glasgow G44 4BN

2. The Offices of thee Association shall be at such place as the Executive Committee of the Association may from time to time determine.

3. The area covered by the Association shall be the whole of Scotland.

4. The objects of the Association are:-

(a) 1. To develop and foster the interests of all members of the Association.

(a) 2. To promote and encourage individuals engaged in Security to improve their knowledge and expertise in all spheres of security and so raise The professional standards of the profession in Scotland on all matters affecting security in its widest sense, and to advise and offer guidance.

(b) To facilitate collaboration and co-operation between individuals engaged in the industry.

(c) To represent members on questions affecting the industry in negotiations with Government Departments.

(d) To co-operate with or assist any Association or Institutions incorporated or not incorporated with objects altogether or in part similar to those of the Association.

(e) To consider all questions connected with any orders, roles or regulations which may from time to time be drawn up by Parliament or any other public body or authority (whether Parliamentary, local or otherwise) relating to the objects of the Association or in any way connected therewith.

(f) To originate and promote improvements the law, and to support or oppose alterations therein, and to effect improvements in administration and, for the purposes aforesaid, to petition Parliament and to take such other steps and proceedings as may be deemed expedient.

(g) To collect and circulate statistics and information on all matters affecting the industry and allied trades and to print, publish, issue and circulate such papers periodicals books, circulars, and other literary undertakings to hold seminars as may seem conducive to any of these objects.

(h) To invest the monies of the Association not immediately required in such securities or otherwise in such manner as may from time to time be determined.

(i) To remunerate such officers and staff as the Association may employ from time to time and to defray, in appropriate cases, any necessary expenses which the office bearers and Executive Committee members of the. Association may incur.

(j) To do all such things as may be deemed incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects or any of them.

Membership:

5. (i) Subject to such rules of admission as may from time to time be laid down, by the Executive Committee of the Association, membership of the Association shall be open to all individuals on their own account.

In addition company membership is now being offered where the lead representative will be nominated as the initial contact of the company, with the lead representative thereafter nominating up to two additional persons, providing they meet the same requirements of individual membership.

Voting:

However only a single vote will be allocated to each Company That they are :

(a) Proposed by two paid up members of the Association

(b) That they can satisfy the membership Committee that they are suitable to be accepted for membership as set out by the membership Committee.

Application for membership shall be in the form laid down from time to time by the Executive Committee.

(ii) Membership shall be deemed to have ceased if payment is not made in the current year or by such time as the Executive Committee shall determine, and notice shall be sent to the member advising that membership has ceased. Such persons may be restored to membership from the date of payment of the current subscription and accumulation of arrears.

(iii) Membership will be deemed to have ceased if the Executive Committee resolve that the conduct of a member has brought the Association or the Profession into disrepute. The Executive Committee shall be empowered to investigate written complaints against members and, where necessary. take whatever steps they consider are required to protect the good name of the Association and the Profession. The Executive Committee further reserves the right to treat as privileged information their deliberations and reasons for withdrawal of membership if they consider such action to be in the best interests of the Association. Any such member shall have the right to appeal and address in person the Executive Committee before withdrawal of membership. Appeal applications must he in writing and addressed to the Secretary within twenty one days of notice of intended membership withdrawal.

(iv) The Board may re-admit to participation any person whose participation has been terminated from any cause provided the Executive Committee are satisfied that he is worthy of re-admission and pays such amounts in respect of arrears of subscription and penalties as The Committee may determine. In the event of The Committee deciding to refuse re-admission they may do so with out assigning any reason therefore.

(v) Any member wishing to resign his membership bay do so by giving notice in writing. No part of the resigning Member’s subscription shall be returnable on resignation.

(vi) All members shall be subject to the Constitution, of the Association and such rules, regulations or code of conduct as the Association may prescribe.

(vii) Complaints must he made in writing to the Secretary of the Association.

Finance

6. Members shall pay to the Association an Annual subscription, the amount of which for the ensuing year, shall be determined by the members in an annual general meeting. The Association may also at any time, by authority of an extraordinary general meeting called for the purpose impose a levy on its members for the purpose of meeting an unusual expenditure, the incurring of which shall also he subject to the authority of the requisite majority of members, at such meetings.

Management:

7. The management of the Association shall be controlled by an Executive Committee consisting of the Chairman, Depute Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer and not less than 3 nor more than 10 Executives Committee members.

Alterations of Constitution:

8. The Constitution shall be subject to alteration from time to time determined by the Association, but not unless the proposed alteration shall first have been approved a, a general meeting or the Association by a two-thirds majority of those members of the Association present and voting.

Dissolution of Association

9. The Association may he dissolved by resolution of the Association passed in, general meeting by a two-thirds majority or those members of the Association present and voting and ratified by the support by Postal Ballot of two-thirds of the total paid up membership. The ballot to be conducted by an independent organization.