Purpose and objective
To promote, encourage and organise the sport in the district.
To provide facilities for the pursuance of the sport in the district.
 
Administrative and financial constitution
  1. The committee shall be elected from the club membership. The minimum of three being Chairman, Treasurer and Secretary. In addition, the posts of Vice Chairman, Public Relations Officer, and Competition Secretary will be elected. One member will be elected as Safety Officer. This post may be combined with one of the other posts on the committee.
     
  2. A minimum of three Committee members will form a quorum.
     
  3. The Annual General Meeting of the club shall take place during the month of November each year. The agenda of the A.G.M. must provide for the election of the committee members and for alterations to the constitution and rules as proposed, seconded and voted on by the club members.
     
  4. Any three members of the Committee or five club members may call an extraordinary General Meeting for any of these circumstances :-
    1. The club being disbanded.
    2. The resignation of the Chairman, Secretary or the treasurer.
    3. Any vote of confidence in the Committee
     
  5. The keeping of the financial records will be the responsibility of the treasurer. Any club members may, upon request to the Chairman, Secretary or the Treasurer, inspect the records.
     
  6. A senior non-committee member appointed by other senior non-committee members must audit the club financial records each year. The audit should be completed at least two weeks in advance of the A.G.M.
     
  7. In the event of the club being disbanded and after all club debts have been discharged, any remaining monies will be equally divided up between all fully paid up senior members at the date of disbandment.
     
  8. The annual senior and junior membership and joining fees for the next financial year will be agreed at the A.G.M. and must be paid before the end of the current calendar year. Junior members must be under the age of 18 at the commencement of the next year.
     
  9. The Committee reserve the right to increase the fees during a current year by request to the club members at any club meeting. A notice of a fee increase thereby agreed will be sent to all members and must be paid within thirty days of the notice date for membership of the club to be retained.
     
  10. All new senior members upon joining the club will pay a joining fee. During a current year, a new joining member will pay membership fee on a pro rata quarterly basis for the remainder of the current year, and the joining fee.
     
  11. Club members wishing to suspend their membership for one year may do so. They shall be placed at the top of the waiting list. If they wish to re-activate their membership in the following year, there will be no joining fee. If membership is not renewed in the first year following suspension, membership will have be deemed to have lapsed and usual non-member joining conditions apply.
     
  12. Junior members in full time education past their 18th birthday can, at the discretion of the committee have their junior membership extended until they leave full time education or reach their 21st birthday, whichever is earlier.
     
  13. The committee may, by majority vote at a committee meeting, expel a club member for any of the following :- Failure to pay any extra fee as in clause 9 above, the abuse of the club facilities, bringing the club into disrepute, or failure to observe club rules.
     
  14. A member accused of misconduct must be warned in writing before any disciplinary action that may result in expulsion from the club. Members expelled will not have their fees refunded.
     
  15. In addition to the normal running expenses of the club, the committee may spend an additional five hundred pounds per annum, on expenditure that is in the bone fide interests of the club, without referring to the club members.
Voting
Only senior club members may vote. Proxy votes received by the secretary before a meeting will be allowed. In the event of a tied vote at a meeting, the chairman of the meeting, having voted, will have a casting vote. Proposals will be carried by a simple majority.
 
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