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The International Association of Broadcast Meteorology is established in the Republic
of Ireland as a company limited by guarantee.
The Association is registered with
the Companies Office, Dublin, with the registration number 23465.
Membership is open
to all relevant individuals or organisations.
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION - IABM
COMPANIES ACT, 1963 TO 1990
PRIVATE COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE AND NOT HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCAST METEOROLOGY
Draft 2 27/02/95
M. J. O'CONNOR & CO.,
SOLICITORS,
2 GEORGE STREET,
WEXFORD.
COC/TB/I7
SOLICITORS,
2 GEORGE STREET,
WEXFORD.
COC/TB/I7
COMPANIES ACTS, 1963 TO l990
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCAST METEOROLOGY
1. The name of the Company is The International Association of Broadcast Meteorology ("the Association").
2. The objects for which the Association is established are:
(a) To enhance the status of broadcast meteorology by the establishment and promotion of appropriate standards in the profession world-wide and the doing of all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above object.
(b) To represent the views of weather presenters world-wide and to communicate those views to other bodies where appropriate.
(c) To ensure that the weather presenters have a voice in the discussions concerning the supply of weather information world-wide.
(d) To establish and maintain a register of members as a resource for those in the Association.
(e) To establish, set up, organise, promote and operate conferences, seminars and courses for the promotion, advancement and improvement and research into meteorology and other related scientific disciplines and for the training of broadcast meteorologists and members of the Association and for the improvement of their broadcasting skills generally.
(a) To enhance the status of broadcast meteorology by the establishment and promotion of appropriate standards in the profession world-
(b) To represent the views of weather presenters world-
(c) To ensure that the weather presenters have a voice in the discussions concerning the supply of weather information world-
(d) To establish and maintain a register of members as a resource for those in the Association.
(e) To establish, set up, organise, promote and operate conferences, seminars and courses for the promotion, advancement and improvement and research into meteorology and other related scientific disciplines and for the training of broadcast meteorologists and members of the Association and for the improvement of their broadcasting skills generally.
3. For the purpose of attaining the above objects the Association is empowered to:
(a) Purchase, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire any real or personal property and any rights or privileges which the Association may think necessary or convenient with reference to any of these objects or capable of being advantageously dealt with in connection with any of the Association's property or rights for the time being and in particular any land, buildings, easements, furniture, apparatus and equipment.
(b) Establish and support and to aid the establishment and support of any other association, society or institution having objects the same as those of this Association.
(c) Acquire and undertake the whole or any part of the business, goodwill, property and assets of any body or persons carrying on or proposing to carry on any activity or business which this Association is authorized to carry on, or possessed of property suitable for the purposes of this Association, and as part of the consideration for such acquisition to undertake all or any of the liabilities of such body or persons.
(d) Amalgamate with any companies, institutions, societies or associations having objects the same as those of this Association.
(e) Accept gifts or bequests of, and to hold land or other property including money on trust connected with the object of the Association and to fulfil such trusts and to accept subscriptions and donations and apply the same generally for the purpose of the Association.
(f) Enter into any arrangement or contract with any authority, municipal, local or otherwise, or any corporation, association or person, that is within the Association's objects, or any of them, and to obtain from any such authority, corporation, association or person, any rights, privileges and concessions which the Association may think desirable and to carry out, exercise and comply with any such arrangements, rights, privileges and concessions.
(g) To enter into any arrangement with any Government, local or other authority, body, corporation, association or company that is within the Association's objects or any of them, to obtain from any such Government, authority, corporation or association any rights, privileges and concessions which the Association may think it desirable to obtain and to carry out and to exercise and comply with the same.
(h) Promote and form any other association or companies for all or any of the objects mentioned in this Memorandum, to take or otherwise acquire and hold shares, stocks, debentures, or other securities in, or of, any such association or companies and to subsidise or otherwise assist any such association or companies.
(i) Borrow or raise or secure the payment of money by mortgage or by the issue of debentures or debenture stock, perpetual or otherwise, or in such manner as the Association shall think fit, and for the purposes aforesaid to charge all or any of the Association's property or assets, present or future, including its un-called capital, and collateral or further to secure any securities of the Association by a trust deed or other assurance.
(j) Receive money on loan.
(k) Draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, negotiate and execute, cheques, promissory notes, bills of exchange, bills of lading, warrants, debentures, and other negotiable or transferable instruments.
(1) Invest the moneys of the Association not immediately required upon such securities as may from time to time be determined.
(m) Sell, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease, mortgage, dispose of or otherwise deal with all or any part of the property and rights of the Association.
(n) Provide for the education and welfare of persons using any facilities provided by the Association by granting money,
(a) Purchase, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire any real or personal property and any rights or privileges which the Association may think necessary or convenient with reference to any of these objects or capable of being advantageously dealt with in connection with any of the Association's property or rights for the time being and in particular any land, buildings, easements, furniture, apparatus and equipment.
(b) Establish and support and to aid the establishment and support of any other association, society or institution having objects the same as those of this Association.
(c) Acquire and undertake the whole or any part of the business, goodwill, property and assets of any body or persons carrying on or proposing to carry on any activity or business which this Association is authorized to carry on, or possessed of property suitable for the purposes of this Association, and as part of the consideration for such acquisition to undertake all or any of the liabilities of such body or persons.
(d) Amalgamate with any companies, institutions, societies or associations having objects the same as those of this Association.
(e) Accept gifts or bequests of, and to hold land or other property including money on trust connected with the object of the Association and to fulfil such trusts and to accept subscriptions and donations and apply the same generally for the purpose of the Association.
(f) Enter into any arrangement or contract with any authority, municipal, local or otherwise, or any corporation, association or person, that is within the Association's objects, or any of them, and to obtain from any such authority, corporation, association or person, any rights, privileges and concessions which the Association may think desirable and to carry out, exercise and comply with any such arrangements, rights, privileges and concessions.
(g) To enter into any arrangement with any Government, local or other authority, body, corporation, association or company that is within the Association's objects or any of them, to obtain from any such Government, authority, corporation or association any rights, privileges and concessions which the Association may think it desirable to obtain and to carry out and to exercise and comply with the same.
(h) Promote and form any other association or companies for all or any of the objects mentioned in this Memorandum, to take or otherwise acquire and hold shares, stocks, debentures, or other securities in, or of, any such association or companies and to subsidise or otherwise assist any such association or companies.
(i) Borrow or raise or secure the payment of money by mortgage or by the issue of debentures or debenture stock, perpetual or otherwise, or in such manner as the Association shall think fit, and for the purposes aforesaid to charge all or any of the Association's property or assets, present or future, including its un-
(j) Receive money on loan.
(k) Draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, negotiate and execute, cheques, promissory notes, bills of exchange, bills of lading, warrants, debentures, and other negotiable or transferable instruments.
(1) Invest the moneys of the Association not immediately required upon such securities as may from time to time be determined.
(m) Sell, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease, mortgage, dispose of or otherwise deal with all or any part of the property and rights of the Association.
(n) Provide for the education and welfare of persons using any facilities provided by the Association by granting money,