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IV. Members
  
  4.1 Members  
  Article 42- Membership Exclusion  
42.1 Membership Exclusion  
  No Member once accepted as a member of the Bank shall be permitted to be expelled or excluded from the Bank, even in such condition where the Executve Government of the Member state openly defies the primary of clauses of this Charter, excepting candidate member states who have applied for membership and such membership remains probationary within a twenty four month period.  
  Instead, the Board of Governors and Officers of the Bank shall have such rights and powers to restrict the membership rights and economic rights bestowed under this Charter until such time that the member state who is in breach of its obligations has willingly agreed to restore proper law and function.  
  This clause is in recognition of the inherent respect and honour bestowed to all the peoples of the Globe Union that while they may be sometimes ill governed, it must never be an action of the Bank to exclude the members of any member nation from their due economic rights to be recognized as part of the Bank.  
  Furthermore, in knowing that a Member state may in no way have its membership revoked by this Charter, it compels both the Board of Governors and the Member in breach to seek some resolution beyond acts of extreme isolation and provocation.  
42.2 Voluntary resignation from the Union  
  While a Member state may not be expelled for any reason, a Member state retains the absolute right to voluntarily resign from the Bank, providing such action has been supported by two-thirds of the total eligible voting population, free from political intimidation and voting irregularities.  
  Where such conditions have been met, the Board of Governors and all instrumentalities are instructed to undertake a comprehensive and clear process to disengage that Member state from its obligations to the Bank as well as its privileges and rights of Accounts according to the will of the free people of the State.  
  Where such conditions of voluntary resignation have not been met, then by this Charter such unilateral acts of a national executive government to resign from the Bank shall be considered an illegitimate and illegal act in contravention of the will of the people of the member state. Where such an action occurs, the Board of Governors by this clause are obliged to notify the Executive Government of the member state that their request is denied.  
     
     
     
 
 

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