Honorary Membership may be conferred on exceptional persons who have been helpful to the Society or have been deemed to deserve this distinction by way of having made exceptional contributions in the field of spinal disorders.

Candidates for Honorary Membership must be proposed and seconded in writing by any two Full Members of the SASS and may be elected by at least a two-thirds majority of those members voying at the AGM of the SASS.

Honorary Members shall not pay annual dues nor have voting rights but may attend annual meetings. Honorary Members shall be neither candidates for elective office nor committee appointments, although they may be assigned a consultive role to the EXCO or a Council or Committee.

The incumbent Presidents of Spine Societies in foreign countries, shall be regarded as being Honorary Members.