Private Membership Associations Course
An online based course, that runs for up to 1 hour every Thursday.
If you are unable to make the live sessions, we do have a published course that can be done in your own time.
Pay once and join every time the course is run (usually every 3 months)
Next Course Start Date: 11th July 2024 (Run 5) on Thursday at 3pm
| No. | Session | Description |
| 1 | What is a PMA (UA)? | What is a Private Members Association? [PMA]How PMAs work The structure of PMAs Regulations Management of PMAs Setting up and ‘trading’ within a PMA structure |
| 2 | Meet your PMA – The Constitution | Objects of the association Membership Qualification for membership Officers and their duties Executive committee Vacancies on the Executive Committee Financial year, accounts and auditors Re-election and further terms of office Membership and subscriptions Power to appoint members Renewal Resignation from membership Disciplinary offences Effect of resignation, expulsion or death General meetings of members Notices Resolutions and voting Trustees and association property Employment and other contracts Indemnities and limitation of liability Legal proceedings Borrowing and charges Amendment of the rules Dissolution Headings Execution Annexes |
| 3 | Legal Perspectives and Financial Transactions | Legal perspectives: Authority No legal personality Governance Duties Property Legal framework Contractual framework – disputes Contractual framework – apparent authority Contractual framework – contracts beyond powers Contractual framework – ratification Contractual framework – summary Can a UA be forced to disclose it’s membership? Financial Transactions: Lenders perspectives Borrowers perspectives Capacity Restrictions within the rules Management authority Enforcement of the rules Committee of members Approval of the members Land and buildings |
| 4 | Execution Formalities and Dissolution | Capacity Property Simple Contracts Deeds Why execute a document as a deed Witnesses Timing Dissolution |
| 5 | Case Precedents | Baker v Jones 1954 – contractual framework Freeman Lockyer v Buckhurst Park Prperties (Mangal) Ltd 1964 – Apparent authority Pitt v Holt 2013 – ratification/excessive execution EDO MBM Technology v Campaign to Smash EDO 2005 – legal entity Hart v Connor 1985 – capacity to enter in to contracts Bradley Egg Farm v Clifford 1943 – restrictions within the rules Re Recher’s Will Trusts 1971 – capacity Bucks Constabulary Widow’s and Orphans’ Fund Friendly Society 1979 – Capacity Hachett- Stamford v A-G 2008 – Capacity |
