Annual and Other Meetings.

19. The financial year of the Institute shall be from 1st July to 30th June.

20. Once in each year a General Meeting of the Institute shall be held in Wellington, in the months of July or August, at a time to be fixed by the Council, a part of the business at which shall be to receive and deal with the report of the Counds page 11 and the accounts for the year last preceding, and to elect a President, Vice-Presidents and officers for the ensuing year. The Council shall have power to convene a Special Meeting of the Institute at any time and place upon giving four weeks' notice to the Branches. The Council shall send the Business Paper to Branches at least one month prior to date of Meeting.

21. At the Annual or other General Meetings of the Institute, all Members shall be entitled to attend and vote. The votes of those Members who do not attend shall be exercised by the Branch Delegates as hereinafter provided.

22. The following regulations shall govern the election of the President and Vice-Presidents by the Annual Meeting :—

(A.)	Members only shall be eligible for the offices of President and Vice-Presidents.
(B.)	The Council shall each year nominate the persons who in their opinion, should be elected President and Vice-Presidents respectively for the ensuing year, but any Member may nominate a candidate for the offices.
(C.)	Nominations for the offices of President and Vice-Presidents must reach the Secretary of the Institute not less than six weeks prior to the Annual Meeting.
(D.)	Members voting in their individual capacity need not sign their voting-papers. Branch Delegates must sign their votingpapers, adding the names of the Branch which they respectively represent.
(E.)	The voting-papers, after being marked as prescribed above, shall be handed to the two Scrutineers appointed at the opening of the Annual Meeting, who shall retire for the purpose of counting the votes. Upon their return the Scrutineers shall hand a statement of the page 12 result to the President, who shall announce it to the Meeting.

23. All contested elections shall be by ballot.

24. The votes of the Branch Delegates at the Annual or other Meeting shall be equivalent to the total number of duly-qualified Members within the Branch represented, according to the latest returns to the Secretary of the Institute, minus the number of Members of such-Branch who may be present in their individual capacity. When two or more Delegates from any one Branch are present, the votes of such Branch shall be divided equally between them.

25. A Member, Associate, Honorary Member or Junior Associate desiring to bring any question before the Annual or other General Meeting of the Institute shall give notice to the Secretary of the Institute at least six weeks before the date of such Meeting. Notices shall have precedence in the order of business according to the date of the receipt of them by the Secretary.

26. The Annual Report and Statement of Accounts, and all proposals of the Council, shall be issued to Members, Associates, Honorary Members, and Junior Associates, either by circular or by publication in the official organ of the Institute, at least one month before the Annual Meeting.

27. At the meetings of the Institute any By-law may be suspended on a vote of four-fifths of the Members present.