Circular 3 of 2026: Notice regarding Annual General Meetings, Special General Meetings and Trustee Elections

Background

The primary function of the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) is to protect the interests of medical scheme members at all times. To this end, the CMS is enjoined to monitor whether medical schemes comply with their registered rules, the provisions of the Medical Schemes Act, (131 of 1998) (MSA) and/or other legislation relating to medical schemes.

Section 29(1)(m) of the MSA determines that no medical scheme shall carry on any business unless provision is made in its rules regarding the manner of calling the Annual General meetings (AGM) and Special General meetings (SGM) of members, the quorum necessary for the transaction of business at such meetings and the manner of voting.

Section 32 of the MSA determines that “the rules of a medical scheme and any amendment thereof shall be binding on the medical scheme concerned, its members, officers and on any person who claims a benefit under the rules or whose claim is derived from a person claiming.”

Purpose

The CMS encourages medical schemes to comply with their scheme rules on the requirements of holding AGMs and SGMs on or before a particular date.

Medical schemes are requested to notify the CMS, in writing, of the dates on which they intend to hold their AGMs and/or SGMs and the dates on which they intend to hold trustee elections, where applicable.

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