Levels
- Provisional member
- Available to any person interested in parliamentary procedure. Provisional members are not considered full voting members of NAP.
- Regular NAP member
- Must pass a membership examination to become a full member. This test is 100 questions on parliamentary procedure, taken from a pool of 300. This pool is available for free from the group's website.
- Registered Parliamentarian (RP)
- Must pass a further examination on Robert's Rules of Order. This test consists of 5 parts. The first part is a timed test to find the page numbers for 5 statements in Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised. The next four parts contain a total of 300 questions from a pool of 1,200 questions. The questions may be purchased from NAP as a study guide.
- Professional Registered Parliamentarian (PRP)
- Are RPs who have completed a Professional Qualification Course. PRPs who do not take (or teach) an additional Professional Development Course once during a six-year period, or fail to earn a required number of service points during that time in categories such as service as a parliamentarian, teaching, or publishing, revert to RP status.
PRPs and RPs who decide to no longer practice may apply for retired status, and retain the title "retired PRP" (RPRP) and "retired RP," (RRP) respectively. There are also separate categories for clubs (CLB), student groups (SG), student members (SM), student registered parliamentarians (SR), and student professional registered parliamentarians (SPR).
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