Amendments to the society’s Article of Association proposed and approved at the society’s 21st AGM held on 30 June 2008 are as follows:-
1. PRELIMINARY
a) That a new Article 1(xxii) be inserted as follows
Personal Representative of the Member means the stated beneficiary (or beneficiaries) or the executor or administrator or trustee of his estate made in the Will by the Member or according to the rules of intestacy as laid down in the Intestate Succession Act (CAP. 146) or Section 112 of the Administration of Muslim Law Act (Cap. 3), whichever applicable, if the Member died without making a Will.
2. MEMBERSHIP
b) That the existing Article 2 be amended and the following be substituted therefore:
The maximum number of Members with which the Society proposes for admission purpose be five thousand.
c) That the existing Article 5(v)(cc) be deleted and the following be substituted therefore:
For the category of Full Member, the applicant shall meet the following criteria:
(1) he is a Singapore citizen or Permanent Resident residing in Singapore for writer members or a locally-registered corporation under the Companies Act for publisher members;
(2) he has been an Associate Member of the Society for not less than 3 years; and
(3) his royalties collected through the Society meet such criteria as the Council may prescribe from time to time pursuant to paragraph 5(a)(vii).
d) That a new article 5(v)(dd) be inserted as follows:
Notwithstanding article 5(cc), a member who has been a Full Member of the Society for at least 10 years since its incorporation will become a Full Member for his lifetime subject to articles 9, 10, 11.
e) That the existing Article 9(a) be deleted and the following be substituted therefore:
On the death of the Member, his membership shall cease and shall not be transmitted to any other person, but the rights in any Works (if any) already vested in the Society by the Member, or controlled by the Society by virtue of his membership, shall, subject to Article 84, remain so vested or controlled:-
(i) for a period ending on the 31st day of December in the seventh year following the year in which the Member died unless within that period a Successor Member in respect of the aforesaid rights of the deceased Member is admitted to membership; or
(ii) if a person is admitted during such period to membership of an Affiliated Society in respect of the aforesaid rights of the deceased Member, then up to the date of such admission.
Any distribution to which the Member would, if living, have been entitled in respect of any period prior to the admission of such Successor Member shall be made to the Member’s personal representative until a Successor Member is admitted, or until the end of such seventh year as aforesaid, whichever is the earlier date. Upon the admission to membership of any Successor Member as aforesaid, any payment to which the Member would, if living, have been entitled in respect of any period subsequent to such admission shall be made to such Successor Member.
(iii) In the case of a Member being a corporation or a firm, its membership shall cease, in the case of a corporation, in the event of and upon the liquidation of such corporation (other than voluntary liquidation for the purpose of reconstruction), and, in the case of a firm, in the event of and upon such firm ceasing to carry on business. Upon such liquidation or cessation of business, the rights in any Works (if any) already vested in the Society by such corporation or firm, or controlled by the Society by virtue of the membership of such corporation or firm, shall, subject to Article 84, remain so vested or controlled for a period ending on the 31st day of December in the seventh year following the year in which the liquidation or cessation of business occurred. Any payment to which the corporation or firm would, if it had remained a Member, have been entitled in respect of such period shall be made to the person entitled for the time being to receive debts due to the corporation or firm.
3. THE COUNCIL
f) That the existing Article 39(a)(1) be deleted and the following be substituted therefore:
“Subject to Article 39(a)(2) and 39(a)(3), the Council shall consist of twelve directors, who must be Singapore citizens, of which ten shall be elected from among the Society’s Members in accordance with this Article by the Members in General Meeting, of whom-
(aa) six shall be Writer Members elected by the Writer Full Members, which number shall include at least two Special Elected Directors, one representing Writer Members of music with Malay or Indian lyrics; and the other, Serious or Classical Music, and
(bb) four shall be Publisher Members, which number shall include at least one Local Publisher, elected by the Publisher Full Members,
in these Articles referred to as “Elected Directors”
(cc) one shall be non-member, elected by Full Members to become Independent Director.
(dd) one shall be the Chief Executive Officer elected by Full Members to become Executive Director.
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