THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE PAN AFRICAN LAWYERS' UNION (PALU )The General Conference shall be the supreme organ and exercise the full and maximum authority of the Union, and it shall comprise all the members of the Union, all members of the Council and all members of the Executive Committee of the Union. A General Conference shall be held once in every three years at a place and time to be determined by the Council. In selecting the venue of a General Conference, the Council shall take into account the five regions of Africa, and the desirability of ensuring that the activities and meetings of the Union are spread throughout the said regions. A notice convening a General Conference shall be sent to every member of the Union at least thirty (30) days before the date of the General Conference, together with the agenda in respect thereof. Every member of the Union not in default of payment of dues and levies due to the Union shall be entitled to attend a General Conference. The business to be transacted at any General Conference of the Union shall be as determined from time to time by the Council. At least twenty five percent (25%) of the voting members of the Union shall be entitled at any time, by notice in writing to the President, to requisition a meeting of the General Conference to transact such business as may be set out in the notice of requisition and the President shall, within fourteen (14) days of the receipt of the notice, summon a meeting of the General Conference to be held at such place and within such time not being more than thirty (30) days from the date of receipt of the requisition notice as may be specified in the summons. |
