Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (FACS)

  Last updated on 14 May, 2001      

The FACS Statutes

3. Membership

3.1 General

Membership of the Federation is open to all non-profit chemical societies whose membership consists largely of individual qualified chemists and which are national professional chemical societies of countries in the Asia- Pacific region.

Individual membership is open to individual chemists from the Asia-Pacific region. Individual membership from countries that have societies within the Federation will be restricted to individuals who are members of a society. Individuals for countries which do not have a society within the Federationwill be considered for individual membership on a case-to-case basis. Individual members shall receive all regular publications of FACS and be on the regular mailing list of FACS announcements/circulars.

The Council can on the recommendation of the Executive Committee, elect individuals us Fellows. Fellows will be entitled to use the post nominal letters FFACS. Fellows shall be eminent chemists who have distinguished themselves in the Federation (e.g. Foundation lecturers, Citation awardees, achievement awardees. past presidents). They shall have all the privileges ofindividual members and the right to attend all meetings of the Council without voting rights.

3.2 Foundation members

• The foundation member societies of the Federation are:
• Royal Australian Chemical Institute
• Institiut Kimia Malaysia
• Hong Kong Chemical Society
• Integrated Chemists of the Philippines
• Indian Chemical Society
• Singapore National Institute of Chemistry
• Himpunan Kimia Indonesia
• Institute of Chemistry, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
• Iraqi Chemistry Union
• Chemical Society of Thailand
• Korean Chemical Society 　

3.3 Application for Membership

　A society wishing to join the Federation should forward to the Secretary- General application containing:

• The constitution of the society.
• A summary of the activities of the society over the previous three years.
• Evidence to show that the society is a national chemical society of its country.

The Secretary-General will present completed applications to the General Assembly for decision.

3.4 Withdrawal

Member societies can withdraw from the Federation by giving three months notice in writing to the Secretary-General.

Individual members can resign from the Federation by giving three months notice in writing to the Secretary-General. 　

3.5 Termination of Membership

Membership of a society maybe terminated by a two-thirds majority vote of all members in a postal ballot.

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