1.	 NAME
The name of the Committee shall be the Breadalbane Reading Room and Management 
Committee (hereinafter called the Committee.) 
2.  OBJECTS
The objects of the committee shall be.- 
(a) to promote the benefit of the residents in the Kenmore area (hereinafter called the 
area) without distinction of sex, or of political, religious or other opinions by associating 
the Local Authorities, Voluntary Organizations and residents in a common effort to 
Educate, Inform and Entertain the community, involving commercial organizations 
where appropriate for restricted periods. 
(b) to secure the establishment, maintenance and management of the Reading Room 
for the activities promoted by the Committee in furtherance of the above objects, or any 
of them, and where appropriate to co-operate with the Local Authorities in the 
maintenance and management of the reading room for the activities promoted by the 
Committee in furtherance of the above objects or any of them. The committee shall be 
non-party in politics and non-denominational. 
3.  MEMBERSHIP AND SUBSCRIPTION 
Membership of the Committee shall be open to all individuals resident in the area without 
qualification other than that of residence. 
4.  MANAGEMENT
The Committee shall consist of not less than five nor more than fourteen members elected 
in the manner hereinafter provided. The Committee shall have power to co-opt 
additional members who shall be resident in the area. All co-opted members of the 
Committee shall hold office until the Annual General Meeting following their co-option. 
The Committee shall have power to act in furtherance of the Objects of the Constitution. 
The Committee shall have power to appoint such sub-committees as it from time to time 
decide and will determine their powers composition and terms of reference. 
The committee shall hold meetings throughout the year and shall where appropriate or 
necessary call general meetings of the Committee. 

5.  MEETINGS
(a) General Meetings 
The Committee may convene general meetings throughout the year at which general 
business and matters of interest to the Area and residents in the Area shall be discussed. 
All general meetings shall be open to all residents of the Area and such other persons as 
the Committee may decide to invite, who shall however have no right to speak unless the 
Chairman of the meeting agrees or unless the member concerned has given written notice 
to the Secretary not less than seven days beforehand of his or her intention to speak. 
Only residents of the Area have the right to vote on any matter discussed at the general 
meeting. The Chairman of the Committee or any other member of the Committee 
approved by the Committee shall Chair any general meeting of the Committee. 
(b) Annual General Meeting 
The Committee shall in March or April of each year convene an Annual General 
Meeting. All residents of the area shall be entitled to attend for the purpose of the 
receiving and approving the Annual Report and Accounts of the Committee for the year 
to the preceding 31st December and of the electing members to the Committee and of 
appointing an auditor. 
 (c) Extraordinary General Meetings 
The Committee shall upon receipt of the written request signed by not less than twelve 
residents have the power to convene Extraordinary General Meeting (which may include 
the Annual General Meeting) of the Committee to discuss amendments to the 
Constitution, the dissolution of the Committee or other matters affecting the continuance 
or activities of the Committee. 
(d) Notice
Notice of all General Meeting (including the Annual General Meeting and Extraordinary 
Meeting) shall be given by advertisement in the local or other newspapers circulating 
widely in the Area or by posters displayed throughout the Area and may include 
circulation of leaflets to households in the Area in advance of the meeting to which the 
notice refers, the periods of notice being as follows: in the case of the General Meeting, 
not less than seven days before the date of such a meeting; and in the case of the Annual 
General Meeting and Extraordinary General Meetings, not less that fourteen days before 
the date of such meeting. In each case the advertisements and posters shall clearly state 
the matters to be raised and discussed at the meetings in question. 

6.  OFFICE BEARERS 
The Committee at its first meeting in each year after the Annual General Meeting which 
shall be held within seven days thereof shall elect from among its members a Chairman, 
Vice-Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. These office bearers shall continue in office 
until their successors are respectively elected. If the Chairman is absent from any 
meeting, the Vice-Chairman shall preside, otherwise the members present shall, before 
any other business is transacted, choose one of their members to preside at that meeting. 
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Clause the offices of Secretary and Treasurer may 
be combined. 

7.  HERITABLE PROPERTY 
The title to all and any heritable property which may be acquired or leased by or for the 
purposes of the Committee shall be taken and shall thereafter stand in the name of the 
Office Bearers and their successors in office as Trustees of the Committee. 

8.  STAFF
The Committee shall have the power to appoint such employees as it may from time to 
time determine and to determine their terms of employment and salaries. No member 
of the Committee may be appointed to any salaried position. 

9. RULES AND PROCEDURES AT MEETINGS 
(a) Voting
Except as is provided for the Clauses fifteen and sixteen all questions arising at any 
meeting shall be decided by a majority of those present, and entitled to vote. In the 
case of votes being equal the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote. 

13.  DISSOLUTION
If not less than two thirds of the members of the Committee decide at any time that on the 
ground of expense or otherwise it is necessary or advisable to dissolve the Committee the 
Committee shall call an Extraordinary General Meeting at which all residents of the Area 
qualified as aforesaid shall have the right to speak. The decision to call an 
Extraordinary General Meeting shall be notified to the District Council within seven days 
of such a decision being made. The District Council shall have the right on giving 
intimation thereof to attend such Extraordinary General Meeting and to take part in the 
proceedings thereof. The decision to dissolve the Committee shall require to be confirmed by not less than two thirds of the residents of the Area qualified as aforesaid present and voting at such Extraordinary General Meetings and this decision to dissolve the Committee shall thereafter require to be ratified by the District Council. lithe decision is so ratified, the Committee shall have power to dissolve itself, but the Reading Room and the fixtures, fittings, furnishings and others as initially provided by the District Council shall not form part of the assets of the Committee for the purposes of dissolution and shall revert initially to the District Council together with any other assets remaining after the satisfaction of proper debts and liabilities and shall be applied to provide facilities for the benefits of the residents of the Area in a way as nearly as possible similar to the objects hereinbefore written. 

14.  AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION 
Any proposal to amend this Constitution shall be made in writing to the Secretary and 
shall be signed by not less than twelve residents qualified as aforesaid. The Committee shall, not earlier than fourteen or more than twenty eight days of the date of such requisition, call an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Committee at which all residents qualified as aforesaid shall have the right to speak. The decision to call an 
Extraordinary General Meeting shall be notified to the District Council within seven days of such a decision being made. The amendment or amendments proposed shall require to be confirmed by not less than two thirds of the residents qualified are aforesaid present and voting at such Extraordinary General Meeting. The Constitution as amended shall require to be ratified by the District Council before coming into affect.