46. The Council may, whenever it thinks fit, convene a general meeting, and a general meeting shall also be convened on such requisition or, in default, may be convened by such requisitionists, as provided by the Companies Acts. If at any one time there are not available within the Member States sufficient Members of the Council to form a quorum for the convening of a general meeting, any Member of the Council or any ten Ordinary Members of the Association may convene a general meeting in the same manner or as nearly as possible as that in which meetings may be convened by the Council.
47. All business shall be deemed special that is transacted at a general meeting with the exception of the consideration of the accounts, balance sheet, and the reports of the Council and auditors, the election of Members of the Council and the appointment of, and the fixing of the remuneration of, the auditors.
48. Every meeting shall be called by fourteen days’ notice in Writing at the least. The notice shall be exclusive of the day for which it is given. The notice shall specify the place, the day and the hour of meeting and, in the case of Special Business, the general nature of that business. The notice shall be given to such persons as are under Article 63 entitled to receive such notice from the Association.
49. The accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to, or the non-receipt of notice of a meeting by, any person entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate the proceedings at the meeting.
50. No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum of Ordinary Members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business, save as herein otherwise provided, a quorum shall be such number of Ordinary Members present in person or by proxy, being Members whose respective principal places of business or employment are in not less than five different Member States, as is equal to one-tenth of the total number of Ordinary Members entitled to vote at the date of the notice calling the meeting.
51. The President or, failing him, the First or Second Vice-President (in that order) shall preside as Chairman at every general meeting of the Association, but if there be no President or Vice-President or it at any general meeting neither the President nor either Vice-President is present within half an hour after the same appointed for holding the same, or if none is willing to act, the Members of the Council present shall elect one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting.
52. If at any meeting no Member of the Council is willing to preside or if no Member of the Council is present within half an hour after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the Ordinary Members present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting.
53. The person chairing a meeting in accordance with this article is referred to as "the Chairman".
54. If within three hours from the time appointed for a meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of the Members, shall be dissolved, in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the fourth week thereafter, at the same time and place, or to such later date and at such other time and place as the Council may determine, and if at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within fifteen minutes from the time appointed for the meeting the Ordinary Members present shall be a quorum.
55. The Chairman may, with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present (and shall if so directed by the meeting) adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. When a meeting is adjourned for thirty days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting. Save as aforesaid it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting.