Proceedings 2002/2003 - IRSE

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Institution Announcements
(The price and subscription rates and other
information given in these announcements are
current at the date of publication – August 2003)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
Considerable inconvenience is created by
members failing to notify changes of address. Will
members please inform the Institution office
immediately of any such alteration and so ensure
prompt delivery to themselves of notices, etc.
TRANSFER TO HIGHER CLASS
OF MEMBERSHIP
Members sometimes remain in one class of
membership when their professional standing has
become such as to entitle them to transfer to a
higher one. The Council invites any such person to
make application for transfer, for which purpose a
form can be obtained from the Institution office, and
so take a position in the Institution consonant with
his attainments and responsibilities.
TECHNICAL PAPERS
The Council invites members of all classes to
submit papers for presentation at technical meetings
in London or at local meetings in the United
Kingdom or overseas.
Papers should consist of between four thousand
and six thousand words and while no limit is placed
on the number of illustrations an author uses during
his reading of the paper, the number printed as part
of the advance copy and published in the Journal of
Proceedings must not exceed twelve.
The Institution office will be pleased to provide full
particulars upon application.
COPIES OF
TECHNICAL PAPERS
Copies of the technical papers read in London will
be published in IRSE News and circulated to all
members. The cost of this service is included in the
Annual Subscription.
SUBSCRIPTIONS AND REMITTANCES
Members are reminded that in accordance with
the Articles of Association subscriptions are payable
on election or by the 1st July each year. The
subscription rates applicable for 2003/04 have been
determined by Council. Members have been
circulated with details.
Members are reminded that prompt payment of
subscriptions is required. The Institution is grateful
to the vast majority of members who keep administration
costs down by paying at the time requested.
The Treasurer is obliged to send out notices of
arrears to members who have not paid by that date.
Subscriptions should be sent to the Institution
office in London, unless you belong to either the
Southern African or Australian Section. Local
arrangements apply to members of these Sections.
All cheques and money orders, especially those
from overseas, should be crossed.
The attention of members is directed to the
clauses in the Articles of Association under which
neither notices nor copies of Proceedings may be
sent to those who are in arrears with their subscriptions
beyond a certain time.
Income Tax – the annual subscription to the
Institution of Railway Signal Engineers is treated as
an allowance expense under Section 16 of the
Finance Act 1958 and should be included in your Tax
Return in the section headed “Expenses in
Employment – Fees or subscriptions to professional
bodies”.
Members of the Institution who have retired and
have paid full subscriptions for at least ten years are
entitled to continue membership of the Institution at
half the full rate applicable to their class of membership.
Similar arrangements are available to others in
special need on application to the Treasurer.
Members of 50 years standing are not required to
pay subscriptions.
LIBRARY
The Institution Library is incorporated with the
Library of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, by
kindness of the Council of the latter body. It is
situated at the Institution of Electrical Engineers’
building at Savoy Place, Victoria Embankment,
WC2. Members of the Institution of Railway Signal
Engineers have been granted the same privileges
with respect to it as those enjoyed by members of
the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and the entire
collection is open to them on equal terms.
The Reference Library, which contains a Reading
Room in which a great number of technical
periodicals are always available, as well as a large
general collection, is open as follows:
Monday to Friday 9.00 am to 5.00 pm
Any member of the Institution of Railway Signal
Engineers entering the Library must sign his name in
the book provided for that purpose.
The use of the Lending Library, which is open
during the same hours as the Reference Library and
which contains the principal works relating to
electrical engineering, its applications and allied
subjects including, of course, railway signalling, is
governed by the following rules, which must be
strictly adhered to:
When applying for a book by post a member of the
Institution of Railway Signal Engineers must state
their class of membership. All communications
should be addressed to the Secretary, Institution of
Electrical Engineers, at the address already given.