Central Executive
- The Central Executive shall consist of the six (6) Elected National Officers of the Association and in addition fourteen (14) delegates elected by the Districts/Branches. The functions of the Central Executive are as follows:
- to carry out the instructions and policies of the Conference of Delegates and the General Council in the day-to-day affairs of the Association.
- to receive monthly progress reports of the Association’s Standing Committees, and to supervise the work of these Committees within the policy guidelines of the Association.
- to keep the General Council advised on all matters affecting the affairs of the Association.
- to determine the Bankers of the Association and to nominate three (3) persons, in addition to the Treasurer, to be signatories to the Association’s accounts.
- in emergencies when the General Council cannot be summoned, to authorize expenditure not in excess of such amount as has been fixed by the Conference of Delegates.
- in emergencies, when the General Council cannot be summoned, to take decisions or initiate procedures in the interest of the Association, industrial action excluded.
- to recommend a course of industrial action to the General Council when, having heard the Industrial Relations Committee, it sees such action as conducive to the cause of education.
- to admit individuals to Ordinary Membership in the Association. This duty may be routinely delegated to the President and the Third Vice-President, but the Executive shall retain the right of final decision.
- to invite other Groups/Associations to Associate Membership.
- to make appointments to the permanent posts of Office Staff.
- to recommend to the General Council the establishment of posts of Temporary Appointed Officers, and to nominate persons thereto.
- to prescribe the manner of promulgation amongst members of amendments and/or interpretations of these Rules.
- Each month, the Central Executive, acting through the Third Vice-President shall forward to the Elections Commission lists of new members and of those who have lost or withdrawn their membership.
- The Central Executive has the power to appoint ad hoc Sub-Committees without prior reference to the General Council. But where these Sub-Committees require the expenditure of funds, their reports must be presented to the General Council. Funds made available to these Sub-Committees must not exceed the limits of the competence of the Central Executive.