Constitution and by-laws

CAPN is incorporated in Ontario. By-law No. 1 is the association’s governing document, adopted under the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act. The documents below it are kept as a record of how the association came to be.

Current

  • CAPN by-laws

    By-law No. 1, the by-law governing the Canadian Association of Paediatric Nephrologists, made under the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act.

Historical documents

These are superseded by By-law No. 1 and are published for reference only.

  • Constitution, 1994 PDF

    The constitution adopted when CAPN became an independent association.

  • Resolutions creating CAPN, 20 November 1993 PDF

    The resolutions establishing the Canadian Association of Paediatric Nephrologists as an independent society, together with resolutions to August 1994.

  • Letters patent and by-laws, 1987 PDF

    The original incorporation documents. The corporation was first created to host the VIIIth Congress of the International Paediatric Nephrology Association, and became the vehicle from which CAPN grew.

For the story behind these documents, see the history of CAPN. Questions about governance can go to contact@capneph.ca.