ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
General Amendment
Architectural Technician, throughout the Articles of Association, is proposed to be replaced by the term
Architectural Technologist.
Reason:
Council is proposing this change to recognise the skills and competence of Architectural
Technologists.
Associate is proposed to be replaced, throughout the Articles of Association, by the term Architectural Graduate.
Council is proposing this change so as to avoid any ambiguity with the title “architect” in the context
of the Building Control Act 2007.
Reason:
Specific Amendments.
Article 8 to be removed:
Existing text of Article 8.
Associates shall be persons who have passed or been exempted from such examinations as may from time
to time be prescribed or approved by the Council, or who have such other qualifications as may be
prescribed by the Council from time to time.
Proposed Article 8.
The class of Associate member will cease to exist on the expiry of the six year term of the most recently
admitted associate member to the Institute, having been replaced by the class of Architectural Graduate
member. Until such time, Associate members and Architectural Graduate members shall be treated as
being the one class of members and the rights and duties of Architectural Graduate members as provided
for by these Articles of Association and the By-Laws shall apply, until arrangements have been made to the
remaining Associate members save that Associate members shall continue to be entitled to use the affix
ARIAI. Any Associate member wishing to renew membership on the expiry of their six year membership
term, shall be transferred to the Architectural Graduate class of membership.
Reason:
Provision has to be made for the transition from the Associate class of member to the Architectural Graduate class.
NOTICES
A new section is proposed by Council to provide for:
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Serving and delivering of notices.
Sending of notices by electronic mail including the making of information available on the website.
Convening General Meetings if postal services are suspended or curtailed.
Procedures for members to opt out of electronic communications and revocation of consent.
Proposed new section - Notices:
44.
A notice or document to be given, served or delivered to a member in pursuance of these Articles may be
given to, served on or delivered to any member by the Institute:
(a)
by handing the notice or document to the member or his/her authorised agent;
(b)
by leaving the notice or document at the member’s registered address;
(c)
by sending the notice or document by post or other delivery service in a pre-paid cover addressed
to the member at his/her registered address or;
(d)
by sending with the consent of the member, the notice or document by means of electronic mail or
other means of electronic communication (as defined in the Electronic Commerce Act, 2000
including the making of information and or documents available on a website or by delivery, giving
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(e)
or sending the notice or document by electronic email) approved by the Council, to the address of
the member notified to the Institute by the member for such purpose (or if not so notified, then to
the address of the member last known to the Institute). Address in relation to electronic
communications includes any number or address used for the purposed of such communications.
45.
Where a notice or document is given, served or delivered pursuant to Article 44(a) or 44(b), the giving,
service or delivery thereof shall be deemed to have been effected at the time the notice or document was
handed to the member or his/her authorised agent, or left at his/her registered address (as the case may
be).
46.
Where a notice or document is given, served or delivered pursuant to Article 44(c), the giving, service or
delivery thereof shall be deemed to have been effected at the expiration of 24 hours after the cover
containing it was posted. In proving such service or delivery, it shall be sufficient to prove that such cover
was properly addressed, pre-paid and posted.
47.
Where a notice or document is given, served or delivered pursuant to Article 44(d), the giving, service or
delivery thereof shall be deemed to have been effected at the expiration of 12 hours after despatch.
48.
Notwithstanding the provisions of these Articles, if at any time by reason of the suspension or curtailment of
postal services within the State, the Institute is unable effectively to convene a General Meeting by notices
sent through the post, a General Meeting may be convened by a notice advertised on the same day on a
website maintained by or on behalf of the Institute and the appearance of such notice on such website shall
be advertised in at least one national daily newspaper published in the State and such notice shall be
deemed to have be duly served on all members entitled thereto at noon on the day on which the said
advertisement or advertisements shall appear. In any such case the Institute shall send confirmatory copies
of the notice through the post or electronic mail to those members whose registered addresses are outside
the State (if or to the extent that in the opinion of the Council it is practical so to do) or are in areas of the
State unaffected by such suspension or curtailment of postal services and if at least ninety-six hours prior to
the time appointed for the holding of the meeting the posting of notices to members in the State, or any part
thereof which was previously affected, has become practical in the opinion of the Council, the Council shall
send forthwith confirmatory copies of the notice by post or electronic mail to such members. The accidental
omission to give any such confirmatory copy of a notice of a meeting to, or the non receipt of any such
confirmatory copy by, any person entitled to receive the the notice or document shall not invalidate the
proceedings at the meeting.
49.
Notice of every General Meeting shall be given in any manner hereinbefore authorised to:(a)
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every member; and
the auditors for the time being of the Institute.
No other person shall be entitled to received notices of General Meetings.
50.
Any requirement in these Articles for the consent of the member in regard to the receipt by such member of
electronic mail or other means of electronic communications approved by the Council, including the receipt
of the Institute’s audited accounts and the Council’s and auditor’s reports thereon, shall be deemed to have
been satisfied where the Council has written to the member informing him/her of its intention to use
electronic communications for such purposes and the member has not, within 4 weeks of the issue of such
notice, served an objection in writing on the Institute to such proposal. Where a member has given, or is
deemed to have given, his/her consent to the receipt by such member of electronic mail or other means of
electronic communications approved by the Council, he/she may revoke such consent at any time by
requesting the Institute to communicate with him/her hard copy paper form PROVIDED HOWEVER that
such revocation shall not take effect until 5 days after written notice of the revocation is received by the
Institute.
51.
A member present either in person or by proxy, at any meeting of the Institute shall deemed to have
received notice off the meeting, and where requisite, of the purposes for which it was called.
Reasons
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Electronic communication is more efficient and cost effective.
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Procedures for serving and delivering notices need to be clarified.
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Procedures for notices for General Meetings where postal services are disrupted are needed.
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