for the date of the establishment of the association;

for the incorporation of the association by an appropriate name;

for appointment as members of the association of F1naval members, marine members,military members and air force members the aggregate number of such members to be not less than half of the whole number of members of the association;

for the appointment as members of the association by the Defence Council, after consultation with, and on the recommendation of, the bodies to be represented, of representatives of such of the local authorities wholly or partly within the area for which the association is established as the Defence Council may from time to time determine;

for the mode of appointment, dismissal, term of office and rotation of members of the association and the filling of casual vacancies;

for the election of a chairman and a vice-chairman or vice-chairmen by the association and for defining their powers and duties;

for the appointment by the association, subject to the approval of the Defence Council, of a secretary and other officers and members of the staff of the association provided that a secretary or other officer or member of the staff who is in the employment of the association by virtue of the provisions of an order made by the Defence Council in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Defence Council by subsection (4) of section 122 above shall be deemed for the purpose of this provision in the scheme to have been appointed by the association;

for the procedure to be adopted, including the appointment of committees and the delegation to committees of any of the powers or duties of the association;

for enabling F2flaggeneral or air officers of any part of Her Majesty’s forces, or officers deputed by them, to attend the meetings of the association, and to speak but not to vote.

for constituting as president of the association the lord-lieutenant of one of the counties or parts of counties for which the association is established, as the Defence Council may from time to time think fit, or, failing any of those lord-lieutenants, such other person as the Defence Council may think fit, and

for constituting as vice-presidents of the association the lord-lieutenants of any of those counties or parts of counties in any case where they are not president of the association and are willing to act as vice presidents.

in the case where an association area coincides with a F3local government area or where a F3 local government area contains two or more association areas, for the selection by the Defence Council of the president and vice-presidents of the association from the lord-lieutenants residing in the F3local government area or from such other persons as the Defence Council may think fit; or

in the case where an association area falls within two or more F3local government areas, for the selection by the Defence Council of the president and vice-presidents of the association from the lord-lieutenants residing in those F3local government areasor from such other persons as the Defence Council may think fit.

for the appointment as members of the association by the Defence Council, of representatives of universities whose activities are carried on wholly or partly within the area for which the association is established;

for the appointment as members of the association by the Defence Council, of persons representing the Army Cadet Force, the Air Training Corps, the Combined Cadet Force and the Sea Cadet Corps;

for the appointment as members of the association by the Defence Council, of persons representing employers in and persons employed in the area for which the association is established;

for the appointment of co-opted members;

for dividing the area for which the association is established into two or more parts and for establishing sub-associations for any of the parts and for delegating to a sub-association such of the powers and duties of the association as may be approved by the Defence Council and regulating the relations of a sub-association to the association and, where any association has established more than one sub-association, regulating the relations of one sub-association to another.