MOTION 7
The Assembly will be start at 8am on Wednesday 30th of September, in order to feel refreshed we enourage members to arrive Tuesday 29th of September in the late afternoon or early evening. The assembly will finish around 4pm on Friday 2nd October 2026. Convention will then start on Friday 2nd October 2026 in the early evening and finish no later than 2pm on Sunday 4th October 2026.
Names, acronyms, and short forms have been removed or edited for consistency with OA Policy
World Service Business Conference Policy Manual Amendment
Submitted By:
Service Body or Committee: OA Region 9 Bylaws Committee
Intent: To submit the following motion to World Service Business Conference
Implementation: Submit the following motion to World Service Business Conference
Cost: £0
Rationale: To update the language to be more inclusive.
Motion: Move to amend OA Bylaws, Article VIII — Meetings of Delegates, Section 8 – Business Agenda, point c, by striking and inserting:
CURRENT WORDING
Article VIII — Meetings of Delegates
Section 8 – Business Agenda
New business to be placed on the agenda prior to Conference shall follow the same procedure for submission as for Bylaw Amendments and shall be approved by 50 percent of all intergroups and service boards responding to an Agenda Questionnaire by sixty days prior to the Conference. Other new business of an urgent nature must receive a majority vote of the Reference Subcommittee in order to be brought to the Conference floor.
PROPOSED WORDING
Article VIII — Meetings of Delegates
Section 8 – Business Agenda
New business to be placed on the agenda prior to Conference shall follow the same procedure for submission as for Bylaw Amendments and shall be approved by 50 percent of all intergroups and service boards bodies responding to an Agenda Questionnaire by sixty days prior to the Conference the deadline. Other new business of an urgent nature must receive a majority vote of the Reference Subcommittee in order to be brought to the Conference floor.
Submitted By:
Name: Loudovika P
Service Body or Committee: OA Region 9
INTENT: To amend the motion-submission and agenda-questionnaire process so that each region is included in the review of the conference agenda questionnaire.
IMPLEMENTATION: Update the bylaws and other documents that detail this bylaw.
COST: Staff Time, minor additional administrative hours to review and update.
HOW DOES THIS MOTION SUPPORT OA’S PRIMARY PURPOSE? It ensures that Regions each have a voice, it empowers all service bodies including Regions promoting greater engagement in OA’s decision making process.
RATIONALE: Currently, only non-region service bodies feed in the agenda questionnaire. Many regions have delegates at the Region level, involving them adds an additional layer of group conscience, ensuring that all concerns are funneled
through regional discussion before reaching the World Service Business Conference. This also aligns with Tradition Two (“For our group purpose there is but one authority—a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience”) and Concept One, emphasizing that decision-making authority flows from the collective group conscience. By allowing regional participation, this motion deepens OA’s commitment to unity, service, and the group conscience—core pillars of our Fellowship’s primary purpose of carrying the message of recovery.
