Charter of the Independent Association of Hypnotherapists: summary
This is a short summary in English. The legally binding text is the charter in Russian, approved by the general meeting of founders, Minutes No. 1 of 25 January 2023: Устав Независимой ассоциации гипнологов.
1. General provisions
НЕЗАВИСИМАЯ АССОЦИАЦИЯ ГИПНОЛОГОВ (Nezavisimaya Assotsiatsiya Gipnologov, the “Association”) is a voluntary association of citizens with full legal capacity, created to represent and protect the common interests of its members, including professional interests, and to achieve socially useful non-profit goals. It operates under the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the Federal Law “On Non-Profit Organisations” and its charter.
The legal form is an association. It is created for an unlimited period. Its location is Podolsk, Podolsk urban district, Moscow Region; the President, its sole executive body, is based there. The emblem is an eye with a hypnosis spiral inside it, with the name of the Association to the right.
2. Legal status and property
The Association is a non-profit corporate organisation and a legal entity from the moment of its state registration. It has its own balance sheet and bank accounts, owns its property and is liable for its obligations with all its property. It is not liable for the obligations of its members.
Its property is formed from regular and one-off payments by members, voluntary contributions and donations, income from goods, work and services, income from securities and property, and other lawful sources. It may carry out income-generating activity only insofar as this serves the goals for which it was created.
3. Goals and activities
The goal of the Association is to represent and protect the common, including professional, interests of its members, hypnotherapists, to create the most favourable conditions for their work, to coordinate their work, to protect their rights and to make their work in providing psychological help to people more effective.
Its activities include representing members, coordinating their work, developing recommendations on the use of hypnosis, bringing new hypnosis techniques into practice, international cooperation, overseeing the quality of hypnotherapists' work, supporting their training and continuing professional development, informing the media, promoting knowledge about hypnosis, holding events and publishing.
4. Membership
Members of the Association are its founders and citizens and legal entities with full legal capacity who joined after its registration, paid the joining fee, pay membership fees and follow the charter.
A candidate applies in person to the President. The President checks the documents and puts the application to the General Meeting, which decides no later than one month after the application. A refusal can be appealed. Once admitted, the new member pays the joining fee and then has the rights and duties of a member.
A member may leave at any time by application to the President. The General Meeting may expel a member for breaching the charter, failing to carry out decisions of the Association's bodies, not paying fees, not taking part in decisions the Association needs, losing contact with the Association or causing it material damage. Fees paid are not refunded. Expulsion can be appealed.
Members have the right to take part in running the Association, to receive information about its work, to elect and be elected, to take part in its events and to make proposals. Their duties include paying fees on time, following the charter and the decisions of its bodies, keeping its confidential information and not acting against its goals. Membership cannot be transferred to another person.
5. Bodies of the Association
The highest body is the General Meeting of members. It meets as needed, at least once a year, and is quorate when more than half of the members are present. It decides on the charter, elects the President and the Internal Auditor, approves their reports, admits and expels members, sets the procedure for fees and approves the annual accounts and the budget. Its decisions are taken unanimously by the members present; some decisions can be taken by postal vote.
The President is the sole executive body, elected by the General Meeting for 5 years and re-eligible without limit. The President acts for the Association without a power of attorney, manages its current work and funds within the approved budget and issues orders. The Internal Auditor, elected for 5 years, checks the Association's finances at least once a year and reports to the General Meeting.
6-10. Other provisions
The Association may open branches and representative offices in the Russian Federation. It keeps accounts and reports as required by Russian law; its financial year runs from 1 January to 31 December. Amendments to the charter are adopted by the General Meeting and take effect on state registration. Reorganisation and liquidation follow Russian law; property left after liquidation goes to the Association's goals or to charity. Matters not covered by the charter are governed by the law of the Russian Federation.