Section 15

The Council shall consist of the following 3 categories of members:

Any organisation whose aims and objects are consistent with those of the Council and which provides as its primary objective a bona fide direct social service which helps to meet existing needs of the community may, in the prescribed manner and in accordance with the prescribed conditions, apply to the Council to be a full member.

Any organisation whose aims and objects are consistent with those of the Council and which has an active interest in social service but which does not provide a direct social service as its primary function may, in the prescribed manner and in accordance with the prescribed conditions, apply to the Council to be an associate member.

Any person, firm, corporation or organisation that has rendered outstanding social service may be invited to be an honorary member of the Council for such period as the Council thinks fit.

Any organisation which is a full or associate member of the Singapore Council of Social Service immediately before 1st May 1992 shall, on and after that date, be a member of the Council and shall be given the option to remain as a full or associate member or, in the case of a full member, to change its membership to an associate member if it satisfies the requirement of an associate member under subsection (3).