The Statutes of the ALK

Article 1

The Association is named « Association Luxembourgeoise des Kinésithérapeutes » abbreviated ALK. This new association results from the merger of the Association Luxembourgeoise des Kinésithérapeutes diplômés (ALKD) founded in 1967 and the Association Luxembourgeoise des Universitaires en Kinésithérapie (ALUK) founded in 1982. The ALK recognizes the Société Luxembourgeoise de Kinésithérapie du Sport (SLKS) as a subgroup as of January 1, 2021.

Article 2

The registered office of the ALK is established at 76, rue d’Eich, L-1460 Luxembourg. The registered office may be transferred to any other place in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg by a simple decision of the Board of Directors.

Article 3

The duration of the association is unlimited. The financial year begins on January 1 and ends on December 31.

Article 4

Objects and purposes of the ALK.

a) to group together physiotherapists authorized to legally practice their profession in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (doctors, graduates, graduates, diploma holders or any other title recognized by the Ministry of Health of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg).

b) to ensure the defense of the title and training of the different grades of physiotherapy and to ensure the safeguarding of their material, moral or philosophical interests.

c) to ensure their collective representation with the constituted authorities and social bodies.

d) to promote the highest level of professional training of its members.

e) to protect the grade and profession of the physiotherapist both as an employee and as a self-employed professional.

f) to study the problems of physiotherapy by the most perfect methods of objectivity and to propagate the solutions.

g) to create the legal order of physiotherapists: to endow the physiotherapist with a status of practitioner exercising the art of physiotherapy in a broad conception of the distribution of tasks within the practice of medicine and motor rehabilitation.

h) to represent and defend the interests of physiotherapists recognized in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg with the World Physiotherapy Organization called « World Physiotherapy ».

To this/these end(s), the ALK communicates and makes useful information available to its members via the media, in particular via its website www.alk.lu, and participates in conferences and information days.

Article 5

The association may affiliate with national and international organizations or groups pursuing a similar purpose in the field of healing arts.

Article 6

The association prohibits any political or denominational discussion.

Article 7

To become and remain an active member of the association, the following cumulative conditions must be met :

a) to hold the Luxembourgish diploma of secondary education or a foreign diploma recognized as equivalent by the Ministry of National Education and/or by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.

b) to have paid the membership fee for the current year before the general assembly of the same year.

c) the board of directors rules sovereignly on the applications for admission without having to justify its refusal.

Article 8

Membership is lost :

– by written resignation addressed by simple letter to the board of directors,

– by the death of the natural person or the dissolution of the legal entity,

– by automatic resignation in case of non-payment of the annual membership fee within 3 months from the due date of the fees,

- following a deliberation by the general meeting having decided on exclusion for serious reasons, such as, for example, an act or behavior that harms or is likely to harm the interests of the profession and/or the association.

The general assembly makes its decision by a two-thirds majority of the members present or represented.

Resigned or expelled members as well as their heirs have no right to the social fund and they cannot claim the reimbursement of the fees paid.

Article 9

The membership fee of active members will be decided by the general assembly by the board of directors which will have set the amount taking into account the budgetary forecasts. The maximum membership fee is set at 500 Euro.

Article 10

The association is managed by a board of directors composed of at least 4 directors and at most 9 directors, elected by the general assembly for a period of 3 years (and this by secret ballot) and always revocable by it. The board of directors will distribute the responsibilities. It may decide on an internal regulations and a disciplinary regulations.

The directors designate among themselves, by simple majority, those who will exercise the functions of president, secretary and treasurer.

The Board of Directors of the ALK accepts as a so-called consulting member, without the right to vote within the Board of Directors of the ALK, a member of the Board of Directors of the SLKS designated by the Board of Directors of the SLKS.

The board of directors meets whenever the interests of the association require it, but at least once a year. The powers of the directors are those resulting from the law of August 7th, 2023 and the present statutes.

The board of directors may, under its responsibility, delegate all or part of its powers to a natural or legal person chosen from among its members or outside the association, a person delegated to the daily management of the association and/or a person authorized to represent the association in acts or in court, as provided for in the law of August 7, 2023, Article 7, paragraph 1 and Article 5, paragraph 6.

The board of directors establishes the account of receipts and expenditures of the financial year and submits it for approval to the general assembly together with the budget forecast for the following year.

The board of directors is convened by postal or electronic mail or by any other appropriate means.

It can only validly deliberate if at least 4 directors are present or represented. Any decision is taken by a simple majority of the directors present or represented.

The association is bound by the joint signature of two directors.

The resignation of a member of the Board of Directors must be made in writing to the attention of the Board of Directors by registered letter. The dismissal of a member of the Board of Directors is subject to deliberation at the General Meeting.

Article 11

The general assembly has all the powers that the law of August 7th, 2023 or the present statutes have not attributed to another body of the association.

The general assembly meets at least once per financial year upon convocation of the president of the board of directors, addressed at least 14 days in advance by postal or electronic mail to all members of the association, together with the proposed agenda. The general assembly must meet compulsorily if at least one fifth of the members so request.

All members  have an equal right to vote in the general assembly and resolutions will be taken by a simple majority of the votes of the members present or represented, subject to legal provisions in case of amendment of the statutes.

Members may be represented at the general assembly by another member/by a third party by means of a written proxy.

Resolutions may be taken outside the agenda if the general assembly consents thereto at the moment by a two-thirds majority of the active members present or represented.

The resolutions of the general assembly are brought to the attention of the members by postal or electronic mail.

They are signed by two members of the board of directors and kept in a register at the registered office of the association where they can be consulted by the members and third parties.

The general assembly appoints 2 auditors for a term of 1 year, responsible for examining at the end of the financial year the books of accounts of the association and for providing to the ordinary general assembly a report on the state of the finances of the association.

Article 12

The dissolution and liquidation of the association shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of Articles 23 to 28 of the law of August 7, 2023, as amended.

In case of dissolution of the association, its assets will be allocated, after liquidation of the liabilities, to an association with similar purposes and/or social works to be designated by the general assembly.

Article 13

For all points not regulated by the present statutes, the association declares to submit to the provisions of the law of August 7th, 2023, as amended, as well as, if necessary, to the internal regulations in force.