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RULES OF THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION
These Rules serve as the Rules of The IPA, a company incorporated in England and Wales under Registered Number 34967651 limited by guarantee and Registered Charity Number 1071752.
(Adopted pursuant to the Articles of Association in April 2010)
IPA Membership voted to replace the office of a presidentially appointed Secretary General with the office of a Vice-President elected by the members as a presidential team in April 2010. These Rules cover the transition period between the approval of this change and the date that the first Vice President takes office in July 2013.
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Table of Contents
- Rule 1. IPA Organisational Status, History, Structure
- Rule 2. Purposes of The IPA
- Rule 3. Definitions and Technology
- Rule 4. Constituent and Other Organisations
- Rule 5. Members of the IPA
- Rule 6. Governance
- Rule 7. Management: Board of Representatives
- Rule 8. Organisational Officers of the IPA
- Rule 9. Elections to and Holding Office
- Rule 10. Ammendments to these Rules and Dissolution or Merger
- Rule 11. Dues, Finance, Audit
- Rule 12. General Provisions
- Rule change
Change record
1. Originally approved as the Constitution and Bylaws serving as the corporate “Bylaws” (U.S. legal spelling) of The International Psychoanalytical Association, a nonprofit corporation formed on September 15, 1997 in Delaware (U.S.A.).
2. Ratified by the IPA Membership by mail ballot in May 2001.
3. Change to Rule 6, Section B(2)a on the Business Meeting quorums ratified by the IPA Membership by mail ballot in May 2003.
4. Changes concerning the election system ratified by the IPA Membership by mail ballot in May 2004.
5. Changes to: a) remove the distinction between Globally and Regionally Elected Representatives, b) change of title from ‘Secretary’ to ‘Secretary General’, c) delete redundant transition entries, d) move authority on dues decisions from the Business Meeting to the Board, ratified by the IPA Membership by mail ballot in May 2005.
6. Dissolution of the US Company, ‘The IPA’, ratified by the IPA Membership by mail ballot in May 2005. Revised document approved by the Board on 21 January 2007 as the Rules of the International Psychoanalytical Association on the dissolution of the US Company, ‘The IPA’, and the transfer of assets, liabilities and activities of that company to the UK Charity, the IPA.
7. Transfer of the authority to appoint IPA Direct members from the Business Meeting to the IPA Board – ratified by the IPA Membership by mail ballot in May 2009.
8. Secretary General replaced with the office of Vice-President to be elected as part of the ‘Presidential team’ – ratified by the IPA Membership by ballot in April 2010. Changes to election section only at this stage. The full change will be implemented in 2013 when the first Vice-President takes office and the IPA no longer has a Secretary General.
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