(a) to promote and advance the study and practice of Credit Management;

(b) to organize, supervise, and control the admission to membership of the Corporation and to undertake and regulate the professional education and training of persons desiring to study for qualify in Credit Management, to prescribe and approve courses for study for qualifying examinations for membership of the Corporation to conduct or provide for the conducting of such courses and examinations and to collaborate with recognized educational institutions for the furtherance of education in the field of Credit Management;

(c) to seek recognition from and affiliate with appropriate Institutions ;

(d) to create and offer awards and prizes for achievements in the filed of Credit Management;

(e) to prescribe the qualifications and disqualifications for membership of the Corporation, and the standards of professional conduct for members of the Corporation and to secure adherence thereto :

(f) to protect and promote the interests, status, welfare. rights and privileges of the professions and interests of the Public in relation to the profession of Credit Management;

(g) to organize and conduct conferences, seminars. forums, workshops and meetings ; and

(h) to do all such other acts and things as are necessary for and incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects ;

(a) acquire, hold, take or give on lease or hire, mortgage, pledge, sell, exchange, or otherwise alienate, encumber or dispose of, any immovable property for the purpose of the Corporation.

(b) enter into and perform or carry out, whether directly or through any officer or agent authorized in that behalf by the Corporation, all such contracts or agreements as may be necessary for the attainment of the objects or the exercise of the powers of the Corporation ;

(c) accept gifts, donations and requests in cash or in kind;

(d) invest its funds, create and administer Trusts and to maintain current, deposit and savings accounts in any Bank ;

(e) publish or cause to be published books, journals, magazines and other literature and establish and maintain libraries, bookshops and printing presses ;

(f) advance or lend and to borrow money for the purposes of the Corporation in such manner and upon such security as the Corporation may think fit;

(g) levy fees, subscriptions and contributions in respect of membership, admission lo membership and admission to courses and examinations conducted by or on behalf of the Corporation ;

(h) prescribe the terms and conditions of, and to supervise, control and regulate the engagement, training, transfer and dismissal of persons desiring to qualify as Credit Managers;

(i) appoint, employ, transfer, exercise disciplinary control over and dismiss, officers and servants required for the carrying out of the objects of the Corporation and to prescribe their terms and conditions of services;

(j) establish and maintain hostels; and

(k) generally do all such acts and things as are necessary for and incidental or conducive to the carrying out of the objects of the Corporation.

(1) A affairs of the Corporation shall, subject to the rules in force for the time being of the Corporation be administered by a Council (hereinafter referred to as "the Council") consisting of a President, Vice-President honorary Assistant Treasurer and Nine other members elected or appointed in accordance with the rules of the Corporation.

(2) The Council shall have the power to do all such things on behalf of the Corporation as the Corporation is herein empowered to do and may delegate its functions to any such officer as it may from time to time determine.

(3) The first Council of the Corporation, shall consist of the persons who were, on the date of commencement of this Act. the members of the Council of Management of the Institute.

(1) It shall be lawful for the Corporation from time to time at an Annual General Meeting or at any special General Meeting of the Corporation convened for that purpose with two weeks notice and by a majority of not less than two thirds of the members present and voting, to make rules, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or any other written law for the admission, withdrawal, and expulsion of members of the Corporation, the powers conduct and duties of the office bearers, the procedure to be observed in the transaction of business at the meeting of the Corporation, the conduct, duties and functions of the officers and employees of the Corporation and. otherwise generally for the management of the affairs of the Corporation and the accomplishment of its objects. Such rules when made may, at a like meeting and in like manner be altered, added to, amended or rescinded.

(2) The rules of the Institute in force on the day preceding the date of commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to be . the rules of the Corporation made under this section, insofar as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or any other written law.

(1) The members of the Corporation shall consist of Fellows and Associates.

(2) The Council may, however, admit as non-members, of such classes and with such privileges and obligations as it may prescribe, persons not eligible for Corporate membership.

(3) All persons who were members of the Institute prior to the date of commencement of this Act shall be and shall be deemed for ail purposes to be members of the same class or category, as the case may be of the Corporation, and shall continue to be subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made hereunder.

(1) Every member snail be entitled to take and use the title 'Associate of the Institute of Credit Management' and "Fellow of the Institute of Credit Management' as the case may be. and use after his name the Initials "AICM" or "FICM", as the case may be.

(2) Save as aforesaid no person shall take or use such title or such initials for any purpose whatsoever.

(a) The financial year of the Corporation shall be the calendar year.

(b) The Corporation shall cause proper accounts to be kept of its income and expenditure , assets and liabilities and all other transactions of the Corporation.

(c) The accounts of the Corporation shall be audited by a qualified auditor.

In this section, "qualified auditor" means -