Cambodian Society
in the United Kingdom

STANDING ORDERS (2017)

These Standing Orders compliment the relevant Articles of the Constitution of CASUNIK. They may be added, modified or amended at the Annual General Meeting as and when necessary to ensure that, the efficiency of the running of the Society.

STATUS

1.0) Status of the society of CASUNIK is and shall be of a non-political charitable organization hereafter, whereby each committee member must adhere to at all times during the period of his or her voluntary service. Any activities undertaken by CASUNIK, must not pertain to either to serve or to support any political party or parties; UK-based/Internationally-based/Cambodia-based. The committee of CASUNIK shall maintain and retain its virtue by adopting an “open attitude” whereby the society is and shall be “open in welcoming all area of engagements” in any aspects of Cambodia locally and internationally. Engagement of activities undertaken by CASUNIK shall be of non-political purposes or gains. Reciprocal links or affiliations, with or without obligations, shall CASUNIK committee (within its own capabilities and power) uphold mutual relationships with local/home/international entities, such as governments, institutions, authoritative bodies, dignitaries, organizations or the likes.

1.1) Member of CASUNIK Executive Committee may have his or her own political predilection for any particular political party or parties, he/she does/shall have the right to join it/them, to support it/them and to belong to it/them. He/she can and may express own political views and opinions and may acts on own free-will to achieve his/her political endeavours. Such actions are not to be misconstrued as either he/she is representing, is acting or is speaking by any nature, in anyway on behalf of CASUNIK.

1.2) Members of the committee including subscribed members, who are politically inclined, may show their support(s) by organizing own event(s) to promote, to campaign, to disseminate information and/or any other related political matters at own free-will. Such action(s) taken in such event(s) organized and held by such member(s) either individually or in group is not/are not to be misconstrued as he/she/they is/are representing, acting or speaking by any nature, in anyway on behalf of CASUNIK. Such event(s) is not/are not/shall not be recognized and acknowledged by CASUNIK as its own organized event(s). Therefore, CASUNIK is not/shall not be held responsible or accountable for any ramification that may occur as the consequence(s) of the undertaken act(s).

1.3) Executive committee of CASUNIK within own capacity and power, is to be/shall be responsible to ensure that its objectives and goals are effectively implemented and conducted in the spirit of unity and solidarity.

CODE OF CONDUCTS

2.0) It is imperative for all members, guests, visitors including members of the committee at all times to comply to the “code of conducts” implemented by the Executive board as compulsory when attending any events at any venues (halls, temples, monasteries etc.) held and hosted by CASUNIK. The Executive Committee members do/shall reserve the right to ask its member(s) or guest(s) to leave the premises, the venues and/or the vicinity of the event(s) whenever considered to be inappropriate in accordance to the policy set as follows:

2.1) When attending and/or participating in, any religious ceremonies, “Smart Casual” as “dress code” must be observed and is to be acted upon and to conform to. Accounting for Traditional outfits where shirt buttoned up to the second button from the collar down, blouse covering chest, skirt below-knee-length to be appropriate “dress code”, thus, will be accepted. Wearing hat inside venue(s) will not be accepted.

2.2) When attending and/or participating in, any events (inside of or outside of or within the vicinity of the venues), commercially trading of goods will not be accepted, unless authorised by CASUNIK. Thus, it is/shall be prohibited.

2.3) When attending and/or participating in, any events, CASUNIK shall not be held responsible for, accountable for or liable for the loss or the damage of any of personal belonging(s) or injuries to any individual(s) including its member(s).

MEMBERSHIP

3.0) Membership subscription and fee must be submitted, received, accepted and registered before the 1st of September (applies to both new and renewal of subscription) in order to be entitled to membership’s eligibility and rights. Annual subscription of membership types, fees, eligibilities and entitlements are set and agreed by the Society at Annual General Meeting in March 2017, and are described and explained as follow:

3.1) Full-member is/shall be entitled to the right to attend the General Meeting/Annual General Meeting to express opinions, the right to stand for Presidency, the right to vote for Presidency, the right to vote to elect members of the Executive Committee, the right to vote on matters relating to the implementations and the conducts of any activities undertaken by CASUNIK when invoked by the Executive Committee if and when resolutions have not been found or objectives have not been met.

3.2) Associate-Member is/shall be entitled to the right to express opinions at the Annual General Meeting, and shall not have the right to vote, nor the right to stand for Presidency, nor the right to be appointed as member of the Executive Committee.

3.3) Benefactor-Member (any person who donates £100 or more - regularly or one-off) is/shall be entitled to the right to express opinions at the Annual General Meeting, and shall not have the right to vote, nor the right to stand for Presidency, nor the right to be appointed as member of the Executive Committee.

3.4) Honorary-Member is/shall be entitled to the right to express opinions at the Annual General Meeting, and shall not have the right to vote for Presidency, nor the right to stand for Presidency. By invitation only, such member may be called upon and may be appointed as member of the Executive Committee at the committee’s discretion.

3.5) Students from Cambodia who are attending UK-based course(s) for the duration of one academic year or longer are eligible to join the Society in the following sets of membership type and entitlement:

3.5.1) Student-Member is/shall be entitled to the right to attend the Annual General Meeting to express opinions and to vote on matters relating to the implementations and the conducts of any activities undertaken by CASUNIK when invoked by the Executive Committee if and when resolutions have not been found or objectives have not been met. Student-Member does not/shall not have the right to vote for Presidency, nor the right to stand for Presidency, nor can he/she be appointed as member of the Executive Committee.

3.5.2) Student-Full-Member is/shall be entitled to the same equal right(s) to the right(s) of a Student-Member membership type (see clause 3.5.1) with an additional right to cast vote for Presidency at the General Meeting.

STANDING FOR PRESIDENCY

4.0) Only Full-Members are entitled to the right to vote for Presidency. Full-Members who wish to stand for presidency, must deposit their candidacy by submitting it to the Secretary of the Society no later than the 1st of September. To be eligible to stand for presidency, Full-Members must meet all of the following criteria:

4.1) He/she must be a Full-Member for a minimum of three consecutive years of subscription.

4.2) He/she must have voluntarily served and/or participated in the Society as either a member of Executive Committee or any other significantly assigned roles for at least a minimum of two years.

4.3) He/she must have received a minimum of two nominations from CASUNIK members.

4.4) He/she must be of Khmer/Cambodian origin or of Khmer/Cambodian descendant. If the candidate is of a Khmer/Cambodian descendant, then proof and evidence of “origin” is and shall be required for at least the past three generations, or, unless the candidate have been known or is known and recognized by either CASUNIK members or its committee members.

GENERAL MEETINGS AND ELECTIONS

5.0) The President of the Society shall preside at every Meeting/General Meeting/Annual General Meeting/Extra-Ordinary General Meeting/Special General Meeting. In the case of the President being in absence, the Vice-President shall take the role of the President to preside the above mentioned meeting(s) and to conduct electoral duties (if any) during time of the absence(s) of the President.

5.1) Full-Members and Student-Full-Members shall cast their votes in person at the General Meeting.

5.2) Postal votes or email votes must arrive at the Secretary of the Society at least 48 hours before the General Meeting.

5.3) Voting by proxy, one Full-Member may act on behalf of another/other Full-Member(s) with a maximum of two proxy votes. One Student-Full-Member may act on behalf of another/other Student-Full-Member(s) with a maximum of two proxy votes. The letter of proxy voting must be duly signed and dated and submitted to the Secretary of the Society prior to or during the General Meeting.

5.4) In the case of insufficient number of (at least 1/3 of the total of) Full-Members and Student-Full-Members to form a quorum at the Annual General Meeting, the Executive Committee shall call for an “Extra-Ordinary” or “Special” General Meeting within 6 months with at least 21 day notice to call for an election for a new President and members of the Executive Committee. No quorum is required for this particular type of Meeting(s).

5.5) A simple majority resulting from the General Meeting, election for members of the Executive Committee may not be necessary. At the discretion of the elected President, he/she shall have the right to appoint any person(s) of any Full-member to various position(s) as he/she deems suitable.

ADDRESS

6.0) Postal address of CASUNIK may be chosen at the discretion of the President during his/her mandate.

DATA PROTECTION

7.0) All contact details of CASUNIK members, including names, postal addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers shall be kept confidential and are to be/shall be used only and solely for the purpose of carrying out CASUNIK duties.

CASUNIK WEBSITE COPYRIGHTS

8.0) Image contents such as graphics or photographs including editorial contents, such as news article(s) and other related information published on CASUNIK website at URL/web-address: http://www.casunik.org or https://www.casunik.org or www.casunik.org or casunik.org can be redistributed, copied, reprinted, reposted, shared or linked to, in the following terms and conditions which redistributor(s) (you/your/yours) must comply to:

8.0.1) Alterations to the context of any articles or contents are prohibited especially when the note of credit to the original source is included and is displayed (see clause 8.0.2 below) anywhere on the edited version of the article(s) or content(s). CASUNIK reserves the right to ask you (the redistributor) to immediately remove the note of credit from displaying at anytime.

8.0.2) A CASUNIK logo must be included or a note of credit to the original source must be included at the end of each extracted or copied article/content; that is, [Source: www.casunik.org].

8.0.3) When displaying the CASUNIK URL/web-address (see above in 8.0 clause) as an active link on either your webpage(s) or on your post(s) on any Social Media; the link, must not be directing or redirecting your visitor(s) to any other website other than the CASUNIK website, where it can be noted and accurately displays the authentic CASUNIK URL/web-address (see above in 8.0 clause) in the “Address Bar” of your visitors’ internet browser Apps.

ACCOUNTS

9.0) The Treasurer of the CASUNIK Society shall keep proper accounting records of all the monies spent and received and other financial transactions including contact details of subscribed members and donators.

9.1) Annual accounts must be made up and archived at the end of August of each year. The accounts’ records shall be provided and made available for viewing, to Members of the Society at the Annual General Meeting.

9.2) Accounts book(s) shall be made available for inspection. Copies of the Account book(s) can be printed out for Full-Members upon request.

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