In applying to join in the commercial trade council, a corporation or firm should first fill in an application form and submit it along with its registered business license in two folds to the relevant commercial trade council, then the council shall check the submitted materials; after approval of the council, the commercial trade council then reports the newly absorbed member to competent authorities for future reference.

Corporations and firms established in accordance with corporation act or commercial registration act that have not started business should be suspended to join in the commercial trade council.

Purpose enterprise competent authorities should report its issuing business licenses to approved corporations and firms to the local commercial associations these corporations and firms belong to.

Commercial trade council should issue membership certificates to its member, indicating names of member corporations and firms, names of principals, enrollment date, addresses of corporations and firms, issuing date of membership certificates; Commercial trade council also issues representative certificates to member representatives, indicating each of the member representative’s name, date of birth, native place, gender, enrollment date, place of work, position, household’s address, corresponding address, I.D number with a mug shot of two inches sticking on the certificate.

The membership of corporations and firms is to be cancelled with adoption of the council if they have the situations mentioned in Article 14 of the act, then commercial group submits the cancellation of membership to competent authorities and purpose enterprise competent authorities respectively for future reference.

In addition to registration under circumstances of particular changes, commercial trade council should make a member registration book and a member representative registration book respectively, and it should check the registration books one month before the calling of general meeting every year so that it may revise the registration books accordingly; commercial trade council should make a scroll of members and a scroll of member representatives respectively and send them to competent authorities for check and reference 15 days before the calling of general meeting.

Commercial trade council should inform its members of the calling of general meeting one month beforehand, so that members may declare whether they will continue to appoint the former representatives or appoint new representatives twenty days before calling of the general meeting, those who don’t declare in time automatically abandon the right of appointing former and new representatives. Both the information and declaration should be made in written form.

If commercial trade council finds out that member representatives have any of the situations mentioned in Article 17 of the act, it should report the representatives to council to cancel their representative qualification, at the same time, commercial trade council inform its members to reappoint new member representatives.

The calculation of entrusted member representatives mentioned in Article 19 of the act should be subject to entrusted member representatives not exceeding half of the attending member representatives in sequence of signing in, the vicegerent right of entrusted member representatives who sign in after the number of entrusted member representatives has exceed half of the number of the attending member representatives in sequence of signing in is invalid.