Votes
Article 2 : Each titular delegate shall have one vote. If a titular delegate is absent, his vote shall pass automatically to the delegate or supplementary or substitute delegate of the same country, if present, unless the absent titular delegate stipulates to the contrary.

Assemblies
Article 3
a) The titular delegates of the UAI shall meet once a year in ordinary session, unless the Bureau decides otherwise (for which decision the Bureau shall account to the next following General Assembly). At each meeting the delegates shall fix the date of the following meeting. They may be convoked out of normal time by the Bureau, if the latter judges it necessary.
b) Meetings shall normally be held at Brussels. However, if an Assembly judges it useful, it can accept an invitation from a body of scholars which will entail the following ordinary Assembly meeting in the country of that learned body.

Initiatives
Article 4
a) An initiative in research or publication can be taken by either a delegate to the UAI mandated for this purpose by one or more affiliated bodies, or by the Bureau of the Union.
b) A proposal for research or publication must contain a precise definition of its subject, a statement of its leading ideas, plan of work and estimate of expenditure and the originators of the proposal must indicate the extent to which they themselves intend to contribute to its execution.
c) The proposals referred tu above shall be announced to the delegates during the course of the General Assembly, which, if it accepts them in principle, shall entrust the examination of them to an ad hoc committee consisting of three or five persons.
During the interval between two Assemblies the ad hoc committee shall study the proposal which it has been commissioned to examine from the point of view both of its likely contribution to knowledge and from that of the new commitments in which it might involve the finances and the services of the Administrative Secretariat.
The delegates to the UAI must be informed of the contents of the report of the ad hoc committee at least two months before the meeting of the Assembly so that they can receive instructions and a precise mandate from the Member Academy or group of Member Academies of whom they are the mandatories.
d) In the case of a project already in progress, if the patronage of the UAI is requested before the meeting of the Bureau, the latter may recommend to the opening session of the next follwing General Assembly the formation of an ad hoc committee charged with the duty of making a report to the closing session of that General Assembly. The latter may decide to grant the patronage of the UAI to the project, if it is satisfied that Member Academies were informed of the request for patronage two months before the session.

Projects Directed by a Member of the UAI
Article 5
a) The Member Academies of the UAI who have undertaken the responsibility for a piece of research or a publication and have received the approval of the Assembly shall control the direction of it ; they shall organize the work, designate its headquarters, choose collaborators and summon them to a meeting when they judge it necessary.
b) They shall designate a Director of the project who shall be required to submit a report to the General Assembly on the progress of the project. If the Director is not himself a delegate or a supplementary delegate, one of the delegates of the affiliated body which designated him shall act as his substitute and submit a report.

Projets under the Immediate Direction of the UAI
Article 6 : For all projects under its immediate direction, the UAI shall designate a Director for a term of three ordinary General Assemblies. If the Director is not himself a delegate or a supplementary delegate, the General Assembly shall designate from among the delegates or supplementary or substitute delegates a mandatory, whose duty shall be to follow the progress of the project closely and to present an annual report on it.

Projects Patronised by the UAI
Article 7 : For each project to which it has accorded its patronage the UAI shall designate from among the delegates or supplementary or substitute delegates a mandatory, whose duty it shall be to follow the progress of the project closely and to present an annual report on it.

Committees
Article 8
a) At the General Assemblies, the Bureau shall constitute for each project in progress, a committee in examine the reports of Directors or of mandatories, deliberate on the steps to be taken and decide what proposals shall be submitted to the General Assembly. The Directors of projects who are not delegates in the General Assembly and other scholars actively engaged in the projects in question may be invited to take part in the deliberations of a particular committee, but they shall not have the right to vote. Persons invited to take part in the deliberations of a particular committee may equally be invited to attend the General Assembly for the discussion of questions concerning that committee. The President of the UAI may invite them to speak.
b) A committee called The Business Committee (Affaires Internes) shall be entrusted with the examination of such business as requires consideration before it is put on the agenda of the General Assembly. It shall be composed of fourteen members, viz. the members of the Bureau and six delegates, plus the Secretary. The Business committee may invite the delegates of CIPSH (International Council for Philisophy and Humanistic Studies) and of UNESCO to those meetings in which the relationships between the UAI and those organizations is to be discussed
c) A committee called The Committee of Finance and Accounts (Finances et Comptes) shall examine the financial resources and commitments of the UAI and also its annual accounts. It shall be composed of eight members, viz. three members of the Bureau, four delegates (two of them being the two delegates charged with the auditing of the accounts) and the Secretary. Except for members of the Bureau, members of the Business Committe shall not be members of the Committee of Finances and Accounts. The report of the Committee of Finances and Accounts shall be examined by the Business Committee before presentation to the General Assembly.
d) The members of each of these two committees and likewise the members of the Bureau shall always be titular delegates, preferably persons who have been delegates for three years at least.
e) Neither of these committees can accept two members from the same country.
D New members shall be admitted to the UAI after an examination of their Statutes and publications by an ad hoc Candidatures Committee composed of five members of the Business Committee. The ad hoc committee shall report to the Business Committee.

CIPSH
Article 9 : The Assembly may decide that the UAI shall undertake a specific, limited task that has been proposed to its Bureau by CIPSH.

UNESCO
Article 10 : Projects to which a subvention has been allocated by UNESCO shall conform to the rules imposed by that body.

Payments
Article 11 : Requests for payment from the budget allocated for scholarly purposes shall be addressed to the Secretary. The latter shall not make the payments until the requests have been contersigned by the President of the UAI or his substitute.

Proposals for Changes
Article 12 : Proposals for changes in the Regulations must be presented, whether made by one or more delegates or the Bureau, at least four months before the meeting of the Assembly.
The vote of a simple majority of the delegates present is needed for the acceptance of such proposals.