The AMRA membership year commences on 1st September each year and runs to the 31st August of the following year.
All existing members whose membership expires in the current year who wish to renew for the following year are required to pay their renewal fee to the Federal Registrar so that it is received in time to be processed by the 1st September. A renewal notice is issued as a loose page with the July/August Edition of Journal. This Journal is sent in a window faced envelope and the label with the delivery address is attached to the renewal notice. This can be used to renew yourself, any existing family members, and to add new family members. Family membership is open to the spouse and student children (under 19 years of age) of the senior member.
The renewal notice can also be obtained from the Member's Area from 1st July onwards. You can also renew online using Paypal from the Member's Area.
Members who have not renewed by 1st September will be unfinancial. Those whose renewals not received by the Registrar by the 31st October will be considered to have resigned their membership of AMRA. Please refer to the section below regarding rejoining.
To encourage on-time renewals, all senior and student members who are financial on 1st September of each year go in a draw with one being selected to win three additional years free membership. Where the senior member has family members those family members will also receive the additional three years (provided that they will still be eligible for family membership for that period). Those members whose renewals are not received by the due date will NOT be included in this draw as they will be unfinancial on the date of the draw.
Renewals are due and payable by the 1st September of each year.
Membership renewal subscriptions for the September 2010 - August 2011 year are as follows:
$28.00 for senior members for one year or $84.00 for three years
$33.00 for senior plus all family members for one year or $99.00 for three years
or $15.00 for student members (from age 10 to end of high school)
Members are given two months grace following the due date for payment. Unfinanial members who renew during that period are not considered to have resigned and do not therefore need to rejoin. These members can rejoin using the same form and by paying the same fee as for those who rejoind on time, the only difference is that as they are unfinancial on the dure date for renewal they miss out on the draw for additional membership.
Renewals received by the Registrar after the 31st October but before 31st December 2010 are subject to a rejoining fee as members who are still unfinancial at the end of the grace period are considered to have resigned.
An offer to rejoin the Association at a reduced joining fee is sent in late October to all members who are still unfinancial and who (unless their late renewal is already in the mail) will be considered to have resigned at the end of the month.
If you don't renewed for 2010/11 by 31st October (but were a member in 2009/10) then you should received a green form that you can use to rejoin AMRA at a reduced rate provided that you rejoin before 31st December 2010. Please contact the Registrar if you need a replacement for that form or download one from the Member's Area.
The rejoining fee applicable for members who did not intend to resign, provided that they rejoin before 31st December, 2010 is $10.00 ($7.00 for students) in addition to the normal renewal fees payable.
Anyone who has failed to rejoin by 31st December will need to use the ordinary new application form if they wish to rejoin AMRA. Those who actually rejoin for the full current membership year (and who therefore have a new membership that continues directly on the end of their old membership) will not be considered to be new members but will instead be reinstated under their old membership number with their original join date. Those who rejoin for the following year and who therefore have a gap in their membership will be treated as new members and will be issued a new membership number.
If anyone who resigned their membership at the end of October last year wishes to rejoin with continuous membership between March and August they should send the one year renewal fee from their original renewal form as well as the joining fee of the amount shown on the form to the registrar along with their name and membership number. Those who wish to rejoin in January/February can do so using the new member application form which has the correct total fees on it (and provided that they specify their name correctly will be automatically matched to their resigned membership).
Note that members who renew late or who rejoin with continuous membership will not receive any of the correspondence from the Association that they have missed as a result of their renewing late.
