Further detail - coming in April
There is a huge amount of underpinning detail required to make all the main proposals work. The Working Group and Council are still working through this, line by line. It will cover the following areas:
Definitions
These will be drafted by Brodies LLP (the College's solicitors) when the rest of the governing documents are finalised.
Membership
- List of categories (the detail will depend on the level of detail provided in the Charter)
- Definitions of each category
- Rights, Privileges, Fees and Obligations
- Disciplinary proceedings, and removal
Membership meetings
- How Trustees call a meeting
- Requisitioning a meeting - the Membership themselves
- How the Membership put forward a motion
- Power to have in-person and hybrid meetings
- Meeting management: chairing, quorum, adjourning, voting, proxy voting (if any)
Board of Trustees
- Purpose -
- this is usually something like "The charity trustees of the College have full legal responsibility for the overall control and management of the College, its property, and affairs. Collectively, they are the 'Board of Trustees"
- Powers
- Minimum and maximum size of the Board
- How Trustees become Trustees, how long they stay on the Board, what happens if a Trustee's term ends before the expected time
- Trustee meeting management (frequency, quorum, voting etc)
- Conflicts of interest
- Trustee investment responsibilities
Council
- Purpose
- This could be something like: "The Council shall have oversight of all clinical, professional and health policy matters and may exercise such other functions as are delegated to it by the Board of Trustees, subject to any restrictions imposed by the College's Charter or these Laws"
- How people get on Council, how long they stay on Council, what happens if a Council member's term ends before the expected time
- Council meeting management (frequency, quorum, voting etc)
Administration
- Detail of setting up (and closing) Faculties
- Detail of setting up (and closing down) Committees
- Detail of internal procedures, eg processes for electing Fellows
- Records and accounts
- Communications with the Membership
- Common Seal, if anything else is needed other than what's in the Charter
- How to amend the Laws or the Charter
