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.
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 that month.
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. Note that the rejoining fee is still payable even where membership is treated as being continuous if the renewal is not received by the membership registrar by 31st October. The normal rejoining fee is half the current joining fee for new members however the offer sent to members who have just resigned will generally include a much lower fee.
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 fill out a new member application form and deduct the amount indicated at the bottom as well as indicating your old membership number on the form.
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.
