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Record: f1-0512-5

Executive committee management - Army & Navy Stores Ltd

Dates: 1871-1981
Description: Executive committee management is the activity of managing the work of the board of directors. It includes appointing members of the board and conducting and servicing its meetings.

Biographical history
Members of the board of directors were either appointed by the board itself or the society at the annual general meeting. Each year, two directors had to retire from the board by rotation. Replacements were appointed by the society at the annual general meeting. Every retiring director was eligible for re-election. If a vacancy occurred through death or resignation, the board had the power to appoint a new director itself. This director remained in office until the next annual general meeting. When the society was first established, the board met at least once a fortnight and subcommittees met at least once a week. From 1914, the board met as often as it thought fit. A meeting of the board could be convened at any time by any two directors or the secretary, at the request of a director. The directors had the power to elect a chairman and determine his period of office. When the society was established, the quorum necessary for the transaction of business by the board was three. For subcommittees it was two. From 1947, the quorum of the board was changed to two. Questions arising at any meeting were decided by a majority of votes of those present, with the chairman having a casting vote. Questions arising at subcommittee meetings were also decided by a majority of votes but, if the votes were equal, the matter was referred to the board of directors. Minutes of the meetings of the board of directors were recorded by the secretary. The secretary also kept a register of of the directors' attendance at the meetings.

Joint Stock Companies Act 1856; Joint Stock Companies (Consolidation) Act 1862; Companies Act 1867; Limited Partnership Act 1869; Companies (Winding Up) Act 1890; Partnership Act 1890; Companies Amendment Act 1900; Companies Act 1907; Limited Partnership Act 1907; Companies (Consolidation) Act 1908; Companies (Particulars as to Directors) Act 1917; Companies Act 1928; 1929 Act to Consolidate the Companies Acts 1908 to 1928; Companies Act 1947; Companies Act 1948; Companies Act 1967; Companies Act 1976; Companies Act 1980; Companies Act 1981.
Companies and People:
Army & Navy Stores Ltd
Dates: 1871-1981
FRAS 499
Title: Memoranda and articles of association
Date: 1871-1964
Regulations governing the constitution and work of the board of directors were recorded in the articles of association.
FRAS 570
Title: List of candidates for vacant seats on board of directors
Date: c 1897-1943
FRAS 305
Title: Minutes of meetings of board of directors
Date: 1871-1964
FRAS 490
Title: Index to minutes of meetings of board of directors
Date: 1872-1886
FRAS 306
Title: Agenda books for meetings of board of directors
Date: 1940-1953
FRAS 502
Title: Directors' attendance book
Date: December 1929- August 1932
FRAS 590
Title: Extracts from minutes of meetings of board of directors relating to branches in Bombay and Karachi, India
Date: 1872-1894
FRAS 591
Title: Extracts from minutes of meetings of board of directors relating to branches in Bombay, Calcutta and Karachi, India
Date: 1872-1902
FRAS 592
Title: Extracts from minutes of meetings of board of directors relating to agencies in Plymouth and Portsmouth
Date: 1872-1937
FRAS 593
Title: Extracts from minutes of meetings of board of directors relating to building works
Date: 1878-1915
FRAS 595
Title: Extracts from minutes of meetings of board of directors relating to Army & Navy Auxiliary Co-operative Supply Ltd
Date: 1880-1919
FRAS 549
Title: Extracts from agendas and minutes of meetings of board of directors and minutes of directors' daily meetings relating to financial matters
Date: 1916-1917
FRAS 546
Title: Minutes of meetings of finance committee
Date: 1871-1875
FRAS 548
Title: Agendas and draft minutes of meetings of general purposes committee
Date: 1886-1925
FRAS 547
Title: Minutes of meetings of general purposes committee
Date: 1887-1913
FRAS 578
Title: General purposes committee papers
Date: 1912-1913
FRAS 551
Title: Agendas and draft minutes of meetings of building committee
Date: 1926-1931
FRAS 609
Title: Minutes of meetings of group management committee
Date: 1963-1968
f1-0512
Governance (1871-1981)

Executive committee management was an activity carried out to fulfil the function of governance.

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