Edinburgh Merchant Company Order Confirmation 1996

Qualifications for membership of Company

5 (1) Subject to the provisions of this Order, the persons eligible for election as members are the following:—

(a) merchants, bankers or traders who carry on or who have carried on business on their own account;

(b) persons who, as principals or agents, individually or in partnership with others, carry on or have carried on business on their own account in any department or description of commerce, trade, manufacture or handicraft, or as architects, engineers or surveyors;

(c) managing directors, managers and principal officers of banks (including managers of branch banks), insurance or other companies having their head office in the United Kingdom;

(d) such additional classes of persons as the Company may from time to time approve:

Provided that a person shall not be elected as a member of the Company (other than an honorary member) unless he is a guild brother of the City of Edinburgh and either—

(i) carries on or has carried on business on his own account or exercises or has exercised his office, within the City of Edinburgh or within 20 miles from Her Majesty’s General Register House, Edinburgh or such other distance therefrom as the Company may from time to time determine; or

(ii) resides at the time of his election within the said city or within the said distance or such other distance as the Company may from time to time determine.

(2) Notice of a proposal to include any additional class of persons who shall be eligible for election as members of the Company shall be given at one of the stated general meetings of the Company and such class of persons shall not be eligible unless the proposal has been sanctioned by a resolution passed by two-thirds of the members present and voting at the immediately following stated general meeting of the Company or at any adjournment thereof.