228 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS Article II. Section 1: Section 2: Section $: Section 4: Section 5: Article III. Section 1: Section 2: Section $: Article I V. Section 1: Section 2: Membership The I.F.S.C.C. shall consist of the autonomous national societies, having twenty or more scientific members, qualified according to Article II, section 2. These national societies will hereinafter be referred to as Member Societies. Scientific Members are defined as follows: A: Graduates in Chemistry as defined in the Appendix. B: Graduates in other disciplines. Membership under B shall not exceed 25% of the total scientific member- ship. In addition each Society may nominate one member, who, not qualified to A or B status, is deemed worthy of full recognition as a scientific member because of his or her outstanding contribution to Cosmetic Science. Non-scientific members of the national societies form category C. Membership of the Federation may be extended to all those Societies who are interested in promoting the objects of the Federation and who in the opinion of the Council are qualified in accordance with Article II, Section 1. Application for membership should be made to the Secretariat. A Member Society shall be able to withdraw from the I.F.S.C.C. provided its obligations are fulfilled and one year's notice is given. The same Society may be re-admitted by application. A Member Society may be expelled by decision of the Council if it does not comply with the rules of the Federation. The Society to be expelled may be legally represented before the Council. Meetings The Council shall hold an Annual Council Meeting in August/September or as near to this period as is convenient to the Council. Other meetings may be held at the discretion of the Council. A quorum shall consist of two thirds of the voting power. Proxy votes from Societies other than the delegate's own Society can be used only on specifically defined items on the Agenda. A delegate shall have one vote each or give it to a proxy or a person designated by the Member Society. Each Member Society shall be able to have an adviser who will not be entitled to vote. Decisions shall be by simple majority of votes, unless stated otherwise. Management The management of the I.F.S.C.C. shall be vested in a Council on which each Member Society shall have one delegate for one hundred scientific members or part thereof. The representatives of the Member Societies shall be designated by these Societies annually, but substitute representatives may be designated for

I.F.S.C.C. - CONSTITUTION 229 Section Section 4: Section 5: Section 6: Article V. Section 1: Section 2: Section 3: Section 4: Article VI. Section 1: Section 2: Section 3: any particular Council Meeting if the designated representative is not available. The Council shall elect annually from its own members a President, who will hold office for one year and not be eligible for immediate re-election. Successive Presidents shall not be members of the same national Society. The Council shall elect annually from its own members a Treasurer, who shall take charge and care of the finances of the Federation. He shall be eligible for re-election. The Council shall elect annually from its own members a Comit• de Direction of three who will hold office for twelve months and be eligible for re-election, up to a total period of three consecutive years. These members together with the President, Past President and Treasurer form the Praesidium. The Praesidium of the Federation may employ servants, at such remuner- ation as they may decide, to carry out the current business. Such servants form the Secretariat. Duties of the members of the Praesidium The President, or in his absence the Past President shall represent the Federation and take the chair at all meetings. The Praesidium shall meet as is necessary and shall co-ordinate the operations of the I.F.S.C.C. as decided at Council Meetings and shall perform such other duties as are consistent with furthering the aims of the Federation. It shall also act in an advisory capacity. The Praesidium shalt arrange for its proceedings and those of the Council to be recorded and circulated to all Societies. The Treasurer shall collect dues from the Member Societies, pay out- standing accounts and present an income and expenditure account at the Annual Council Meeting. Finance The Financial Year shall be from 1st September -- 31st August. Member Societies shall pay at the rate of an agreed number of Swiss Francs per A, B and C category members, but excluding Honorary members. The rates shall be adjustable after each three (3) year period by a single majority vote of the Council at its Annual Meeting. For the three (3) year period taking effect in the year 1968 the rate shall be 3 Swiss Francs. The dues are payable on September 1 but not later than March of the following year and will be based on membership at August 31 of the year concerned. The above dues of each Member Society shall be based on an account of total A, B and C category members certified by its President. The money shall be banked in a country chosen by the Praesidium.