OTASA STANDING COMMITTEES

WFOT: Dain vd Reyden
OTARG: Vivyan Alers
Ethical: Elna Jooste
CPD: Tharina Coetzee
Publications - FOCUS: Sylvia Birkhead
Publications - SAJOT: Marj Concha
Coding & Procedure: Haley Norval
Education: Pat de Wit

If you would like to contact a committee member please contact the OTASA Office, who will then put you in touch with the respective committee member.

Structure and functions:

• Only full members of the Association may be a Committee member.
• Council will elect the Chairperson of a newly formed Standing Committee and Council will also ratify members of such Committees.
• The Chairperson of a Standing Committee will be elected by the Committee concerned (unless otherwise stipulated in the committees Standing Orders) at their last meeting before the Council.
• Council will ratify the election of the Chairperson of the Standing committee. The term of office will be 2 (two) years, from the first Council meeting after the Annual General Meeting until the election of the new Chairperson. Any Chairperson is eligible for re-election, but may not hold office for more than 3 (three) consecutive terms of office.
• The Chairperson of each Standing committee will report at each meeting of Council and at any other time on the request of the President.
• If any existing Standing Committee ceases to function, a new committee will be constituted by Council as proposed in Article 16.
• The Council and or Exco may from time to time establish an Ad Hoc Committee and define the powers and duties of each such committee, as stipulated in the Standing Orders.
• Ad Hoc Committees will cease to exist when their tasks have been completed unless the need arises for the Ad Hoc Committee to be transformed into a Standing Committee.
• Ad Hoc Committees will report back to the next Council.