Membership

Membership application is open to any person of any degree of Croatian origin or descent and/or their spouse and children who may become an ordinary, life, honorary, family or junior member of the Society.

Any person other than those set out above may be admitted from time to time as an associate member of the Society (associate members shall not have voting rights). 

All persons wishing to be members of CCS must first consent in writing to become a member of CCS in accordance with section 76 of the Act.

Members shall be classified as follows; Ordinary Member (18 years of age and over) Junior Member (under 18 years of age) Family Members (defined as married or de facto couple with unmarried children under 18 living in the same household), Life Members, Honorary Members and Associate Members.

Any person(s) seeking admission to membership of the society shall make application in writing on such form that the executive committee shall provide. The applicant(s) shall be nominated and seconded by two current full members.

The specified nomination fee and subscription are payable in advance and returnable only in the event of the applicant not being admitted as a member of the society, and must accompany each nomination.

Upon receiving an application for membership, the secretary shall notify members in the next newsletter, and shall post to the society notice board the name of the applicant together with names of the nominator and seconder.

Any member wishing to object to any such applicant shall do so in writing to the secretary within 14 days of the date of such newsletter, stating his objections. The executive committee shall then without being obliged to give any reason, accept or reject any such application the executive committee decision to admit a person(s) to membership shall be final and binding, except that in the event of any objection having been received within the time stipulated then any decision to admit the applicant to membership must be confirmed at the next members meeting.

Should a nomination to admit a person to membership be declined by the executive committee, the nominator and seconder may appeal to the next members meeting; notice of such appeal must be placed in the agenda of that meeting if that appeal is to be heard.

Life Membership A member may be admitted to life membership without any payment of subscriptions as a mark of respect or honour or in recognition of services to the society, upon recommendation to the executive committee and who shall recommend at the society’s annual general meeting.

Family Members / Associate Member / Junior Member: These members shall be admitted to membership by making an application on the same terms and conditions as if such intending members were applying for an Ordinary Membership of the Society.