Metropolitan and Provincial Grand Lodges may establish local funds for charitable and Masonic purposes, requiring a two-thirds majority of members present for approval. Each Lodge must receive prior notice of the meeting and the proposal. Once established, the fund's payment scales cannot be increased without following specific regulations, including a written notice to each Lodge three months in advance of a meeting to discuss proposed amendments. Approval from two-thirds of members present is necessary for any increase. After agreement, amendments must be sent to the Grand Master for approval. Increases in annual dues take effect at the start of the next annual period following the Grand Master's approval, while fee increases become effective immediately upon approval. The document emphasizes the importance of transparency and member participation in financial decisions within the Masonic structure.
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(a) Each Metropolitan or Provincial Grand Lodge may establish a local fund for Charitable and other Masonic purposes, and may direct payments (all of which shall be shown in the Metropolitan or Provincial Grand Lodge by-laws) to be made by the Metropolitan or Provincial Grand Officers and the Lodges in the Metropolitan Area or Province for this purpose. (b) This fund cannot be established without the concurrence of at least two-thirds of the members present in the Metropolitan or Provincial Grand Lodge, nor unless each Lodge in the Metropolitan Area or Province shall have had due notice of the meeting, and of the intention to propose its establishment, nor until the decision shall have been confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the Metropolitan or Provincial Grand Lodge, of which meeting due notice shall have been given. (c) If such fund be established, the scales of payments shall in no circumstances be increased except as hereinafter provided, though the Metropolitan or Provincial Grand Lodge may diminish any of the payments, or exact only part of them at its discretion. (d) Provided always that any Metropolitan or Provincial Grand Lodge may increase the payments thus established under the following regulations: (i) That notice in writing of the intention to amend the relevant Metropolitan or Provincial Grand Lodge by-laws and of the increases proposed, and also of the day of meeting of the Metropolitan or Provincial Grand Lodge for the discussion of the subject, be sent to each Lodge in the Metropolitan Area or Province three months at least prior to such meeting. (ii) That the proposed amendment be agreed to by two-thirds at least of the members present at the meeting of the Metropolitan or Provincial Grand Lodge. (e) When an amendment has been thus agreed to, a copy thereof shall be transmitted to the Grand Master for his approval. (f) When the Grand Master shall have given his approval, any increase of annual dues shall be operative from the commencement of the annual period next following the date on which such approval was given and any increase of fees shall be operative from the date of such approval.