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THE COMPANIES ACTS 1948 to 1967
COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE
AND NOT HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL
Articles of Association
OF
The Draycote Water Sailing Club
Limited.
INTERPRETATION
1.
In these Articles:
"the Act" means the Companies Act
1948.
"the Club" means The Draycote Water Sailing Club Limited.
"Rules"
means these Articles of Association.
"Secretary"
means any person appointed to perform the duties of the Secretary of the
Club.
Expressions referring to writing shall, unless the contrary intention
appears, be construed as including references to printing, lithography,
photography, and other modes of representing or reproducing words in a
visible form.
Unless the context otherwise requires, words or
expressions contained in these Rules shall bear the same meaning as in the
Act or any statutory modification thereof in force at the date at which these
Rules become binding on the Club.
OBJECTS
2. The Club is established for the purposes expressed in the
Memorandum of Association.
MEMBERSHIP
3. The number of members with which the Club proposes to be
registered is 1,600 but the Committee may, whenever the business of the Club
requires it, register an increase of members.
4. The first members of the Club shall be the signatories to the
Memorandum of Association and these Rules and every person who at the date of
the incorporation of the Club had paid an entrance fee to and was a member of
the unincorporated club known as "The Draycote Water Sailing Club"
referred to in paragraph 3(a) of the Memorandum of Association, and who shall
on or before the 31st day of May 1970, or such extended period as the
Committee may determine, sign and deliver to the Secretary of the Club, the
form of membership prescribed by the Committee.
5 The Club shall consist of Founder members, Honorary members,
Ordinary members, Family members, Young Person (A) members, Young Person (B)
members, Affiliated members, Junior members, Associate members and Temporary
members.
6. Founder members are those members of the Club who were responsible
for the foundation of the unincorporated club referred to in paragraph 3(a)
of the Memorandum of Association in 1969; their rights and obligations shall
be the same as Ordinary members.
7 The Club in general meeting, on the nomination of the Committee may
elect as Honorary members persons who have rendered the Club eminent service
provided that the total of such Honorary membership shall not at any one time
exceed five per cent of the total of the Founder and Ordinary members. An
Honorary member shall be entitled to visit the Club's premises and to use the
Clubs facilities subject to these Rules and to any regulations made there
under but shall have no vote at any meeting of the Club nor be eligible to
serve on any Committee. An Honorary member shall be exempt from the payment
of entrance fees and subscriptions.
8. All persons of either sex over the age of 18 years, and whether
the owners of a yacht or dinghy or not, who are interested in sailing shall
be eligible for election as Ordinary members subject to these Rules and to
regulations made there under.
A spouse over the age of 18 years, and whether the owner of a yacht,
or dinghy or not, shall be eligible for election as a Family member in which
event he or she and the other spouse shall be Ordinary members of the Club
and their children under the age of 18 years shall be entitled to visit the
Club's premises and to use the Club's facilities when accompanied by a parent
subject to these Rules and to regulations made there under, but may not
purchase or attempt to purchase intoxicating liquor on the Club's premises.
A Young Person Member shall be either:
Any person eligible as an Ordinary Member who is over the age of 18
and under the age of 26 as at 1st April and is in full-time education or
under apprenticeship or:
Any person eligible as an Ordinary Member who is over the age of 18
and under the age of 21 as at 1st April.
11 A Temporary member shall be a member elected by the Committee
under the power hereinafter contained. A Temporary member shall be entitled
to visit the Club's premises and to use the Club's facilities subject to
these Rules and to any regulations made there under, but shall have no vote
at any meeting of the Club nor be eligible to serve on any Committee. No
Affiliated member under the age of 18 years may purchase or attempt to
purchase intoxicating liquor on the Club’s premises.
12. Clubs and organisations with objects in sympathy with those of
the Club may with the consent of the Committee be affiliated to the Club and
such numbers of the members of any such club or organisation as shall from
time to time be determined by the Committee shall be eligible for election as
Affiliated members. An Affiliated member shall be entitled to visit the
Club's premises and to use the Club's facilities subject to these Rules and
to any regulations made there under but shall have no vote at any meeting of
the Club nor be eligible to serve on any Committee. No Affiliated member
under the age of 18 years may purchase or attempt to purchase intoxicating
liquor on the Club's premises.
All persons of either sex over the age of 12 years and under the age
of 18 years,
whether the owners of a yacht or dinghy or not, who are interested in
sailing shall be eligible for Junior membership subject to these Rules and to
any regulations made there under. A Junior member may not purchase or attempt
to purchase intoxicating liquor on the Club's premises.
I.
A student member shall be
either:
a.
any person eligible as an
Ordinary member who is pursuing a recognized course of full time education
and who has been a Junior member immediately preceding the commencement of
such course OR
b.
any person eligible as an
Ordinary member who is pursuing a recognized course of full time
education
II.
A person of either sex and
being either:
a.
An established member of the
Club or,
b.
A close family relation of a
Founder, Ordinary, Family, Young Person (A), Young Person (B), , Junior or
Student member shall be eligible for election as an Associate member and
shall be entitled to visit the Club premises and use Club facilities subject
to these Rules and regulations made thereunder, but shall have no vote at any
meeting of the Club nor be eligible to serve any Committee and shall have no
right to register a boat for use on the Club water nor to use the Club water
(except at the direction of the General Committee) nor introduce visitors
provided that NO MORE THAN TWO SUCH RELATIONS OF ANY ONE FOUNDER, ORDINARY,
FAMILY, YOUNG PERSON (A), YOUNG PERSON (B), , JUNIOR OR STUDENT MEMBER SHALL
BE SO ELECTED.
14
A candidate for membership of the Club shall send to the Secretary a form
setting out his or her name and address (together with, in the case of an
application for family membership the name of his or her spouse and the names
and date of birth of all children under the age of 14 years) and any other
particulars the Committee shall require and containing the signatures of two
members (excluding Affiliated or Junior members) in support as proposer and
seconder.
The said form shall be prominently displayed in the Club's premises
for at least two days before the election takes place Persons who are
candidates for membership have no privileges whatsoever in relation to the
use of the Club premises or the Club's facilities.
15. Election of candidates for membership shall take place at a
meeting of the Committee duly convened for that purpose. Candidates may, and
on the request of any one member of the Committee shall, be elected by
ballot. The majority vote of the members attending the meeting shall be
necessary for the election of candidates.
16. The Honorary Treasurer shall issue to each member of the Club
(subject to payment of any entrance fee due and any subscription payable for
the current year) a membership card. A member shall, on the request of any
member of the Committee, produce his current membership card for inspection.
17. Any member desirous of retiring from the Club shall notify his
intention to the Secretary at or before the Annual General Meeting, otherwise
he shall be liable for the next year's subscription.
18. The rights of a member as such shall be personal and shall not be
transferable on death.
19. Every member on joining the Club impliedly undertakes to comply
with these rules and any regulations made there under and any refusal or
neglect to do so or any conduct which, in the opinion of the Committee, is
either unworthy of a member or otherwise injurious to the interests of the
Club, shall render a member liable to expulsion by the Committee provided
that before expelling a member, the Committee shall call upon him for an
explanation of his conduct and shall give him an opportunity of defending
himself or of resigning his membership. The vote on a motion for expulsion
shall be by ballot and the resolution shall only be carried if not. less than
three quarters of the members of the Committee present vote in favour of the
motion.
ENTRANCE FEES AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
20. There shall be an entrance fee for members or scale of entrance
fees for different classes of members payable on election of such sum or sums
as the Club may from time to time prescribe in general meeting. Until
otherwise prescribed, the entrance fee shall be £10. 10s. 0d. in respect of
Founder, Family, Ordinary and Young Person (A), Young Person (B) members and
there shall be no entrance fee for Junior, Student, Associate, Temporary or
Affiliated members or for a person who is the spouse or the child of a Family
member.
The entrance fee payable in respect of an Affiliated club or
organisation shall be such sum as the Committee shall determine having regard
to the nature of the club or organisation, the age of its members,
the number of boats the affiliated club is authorised by the Committee to
sail on the Club's Water and the number of Affiliated members.
21 The annual subscription and boat registration fee shall be payable
on election and thereafter before the 1st April (subject to Rules 22 and 23)
or by Standing Order payable over 6 monthly payments commencing 1st
January each year and shall be such a sum as the Club may in general meeting
from time to time prescribe. Until other wise prescribed, the annual
subscriptions shall be as follows:-
Founder member and Ordinary Member £ 8. 0. 0.
Family member £12. 0. 0.
Junior member £ 2. 2. 0.
Student member (A) £8. 0. 0.
Student member (B) £ 19. 50. 0.
Associate member £ 19. 2. 0.
Affiliated clubs or organisations - such subscription as shall be
determined in each case by the Committee having regard to the nature of the
club or organisation, the age of its members, the number of boats authorised
by the Committee to be sailed on the Club's Water and the number of
Affiliated members.
Temporary members - such subscription as shall be determined in each
case by the Committee.
The annual subscription payable by any class of member shall be
reduced on the written request of the member by 50% provided that the member,
if male is over 65 years of age or female and not in a Family membership is
over 60 years of age on the 1st April when the subscription is due
and is in receipt of a State Retirement Pension and has been a member of the
Club for a continuous period of 5 years prior to that date.
Until otherwise prescribed the boat registration fee shall be £5. 5s.
0d. per boat plus £1. 1s. 0d. per ft. or part of a foot. where the
overall length of the boat exceeds 15 ft.
22. (a) A member who has not paid his entrance fee or
subscription or boat registration fee (if applicable) in accordance with
Rules 20 and 21, or within such further period for payment as the Committee
shall from time to time determine, shall automatically cease to be entitled
to use the Club's premises or any of the Club's facilities or to exercise any
of the rights and privileges of membership so long as the entrance or boat
registration fee or subscription and any arrears shall remain unpaid.
(b) Any member who has not paid his entrance fee or subscription or
boat registration fee (if applicable) in accordance with Rules 20 and 21 may
be requested, in the name of the Committee, and if payment is not made in
accordance with the request the Committee may remove his name from the list
of members. A member's name so removed may only be restored on such terms as
the Committee may determine
23 A member elected on or after the 1st August, who shall have paid
his entrance fee, (if any) shall pay a reduced subscription and boat
registration fee for that year on the following basis:
1st August to 31st August – 2/3 rds
1st September to 30th September 7/12 ths
1st October to 31st October – 1/2
1st November to 30th November - 5/12 ths
1st December to 31st December – 1/3 rd
1st January to 31st January – 1/4
1st February to 28th/29th February - 1/6 th
1st March to 31st March - 1/12 th
24 (a) Payment of a boat registration fee shall only authorise the
member concerned to keep on the Club site or Water as determined by the
Committee and provided the boat is maintained in seaworthy condition and in
accordance with any rules specified for the particular Class. In exceptional
circumstances, the Committee may authorise a member to sail an additional
boat on the Club’s water and / or keep an additional boar on the Club site or
Water subject to the payment of such additional boat registration fee as the
Committee shall determine.
(b) In the case of an affiliated club or organisation, affiliation
shall authorise the keeping on the Club site or Water as determined by the
Committee and the sailing on the Club's Water by the affiliated members of
that club or organisation of such number and description of boats as shall
have received the prior approval of the Committee provided the boats are
maintained in seaworthy condition and in accordance with any class rules
specified for the Class or Classes to which any of the board belong. No boat
shall be substituted for a boat approved by the Committee without the prior
approval of the Committee.
25 No boat shall be kept on the Club site or on the Water except in
accordance with the Committee’s boat park and boat mooring plans and any
further instructions of the Committee for the time being in force and which
will be posted in the club house. The Committee shall have authority at any
to introduce new boat park and boat mooring plans and to require the removal
from the Club site of from the Water or boat of any boat which, in their
opinion, is not maintained in a seaworthy condition or in accordance with the
rules of the particular Class to which the boat belongs.
26 If the person responsible for payment of the boat registration fee
fails to observe any requirement of the boat park or boat mooring plan for
the time being in force or to remove any boat when required under these Rules
of if any boat is left on the Club site or on the Water without the boat
registration fee having been paid then the Committee shall have authority to
order the removal of the boat in question and neither the Committee nor the
Club shall in that event be responsible for any loss or damage resulting to
the boat or its content by the removal.
VISITORS
27 A Founder, Honorary, Ordinary, Family, Young Person (A), Young
Person (B), Student, or Junior member may introduce as his or her guest any
person provided that the member so introducing enters the name and address of
the guest in a book kept for such purpose and at no time leaves the Club
premises whilst the said guest is there on. No member may introduce more than
two guests in any one day and the same person may not be introduced as a
guest of any member more than 4 times in any one year.
28 Any visitor may at any time, by notice to the member on the
authority of the Committee and without reason given, be excluded either
permanently or temporarily from the Club site and from sailing on the Club
Water.
29. It shall be the duty of the member concerned to secure observance
by a visitor of these Rules and of any regulations made there under and of
any action taken under these Rules in relation to any such visitor.
30. A member of any Club recognized by the Royal Yachting Association
may, subject to these Rules, be authorised by any three members of the
Committee to use the Club site and Club’s facilities and / or to sail on the
Water on any specified day or days not exceeding six in number in any
calendar year.
31. Any person who is a competitor or the crew of a competitor in any
race or other event sponsored or organised by the Club and open to
non-members shall be entitled to use the Club site and the Club's facilities
and to sail on the Water on the day of the race or other event in which he is
competing or participating.
32. Intoxicating liquor may be sold to those persons over the age of
18 years who are entitled to use the Club's premises or to sail on the water
in pursuance of Rules 27, 29 and 31, subject to these Rules and to any
regulations made there under.
33. The Secretary or any other person who has received the authority
of the Committee may expel temporarily or permanently any person who has the
right to the use of the Club premises only under Rules 27, 30 or 31.
GENERAL MEETINGS
34. The Club shall in each year hold a general meeting as its annual
general meeting in addition to any other meetings in that year, and shall
specify the meeting as such in the notices calling it; and not more than
fourteen months shall elapse between the date of one annual general meeting
of the Club and that of the next. The annual general meeting shall be held at
such tune and place as the Committee shall appoint.
35. All general meetings other than the annual general meeting shall
be called extraordinary general meetings.
36. (a) The Committee may, whenever they think fit, and shall, on a
requisition made in writing by any thirty or one fifth of the members
(whichever is the less) convene an extraordinary general meeting.
(b) Any requisition made by the members must state the object of the
meeting proposed to be called, and must be signed by the requisitionists and
deposited at the registered office of the Club.
(c) On receipt of the requisition the Committee shall forthwith
proceed to convene an extraordinary general meeting.
37. The accidental omission to give notice of any meeting to or the
non-receipt of such notice by any member shall not invalidate the proceedings
at that meeting.
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS
38. All business shall be deemed special that is transacted at an
extraordinary general meeting, and also all that is transacted at an annual
general meeting, with the exception of the consideration of the accounts,
balance sheets, and the ordinary reports of the Committee and
Auditor or auditors, the election of officers and Committee Members, and the
fixing of the remuneration of the auditor or auditors.
59. No business shall be transacted any general meeting unless a
quorum of members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to
business. Save as herein otherwise provided, 50 members personally
present shall be a quorum.
40. If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting a
quorum of members is not present, the Meeting if convened on the requisition
of members shall be dissolved; in any other case it shall stand adjourned to
the same day in the fol1owing week at the same time and place; and if at the
adjourned meeting a quorum of members is not present within half an hour of
the time appointed for the meeting, the members present shall be a quorum.
41. The Commodore, and failing him the Vice Commodore, shall preside
as chairman at every general meeting of the Club.
42. If there is no such chairman, or if at any meeting he is not
present within five minutes of the time of holding the same, the members
present shall choose some one of their number who is a member of the
Committee to be chairman of the meeting, and if there shall be no Committee
member present, then the members shall choose any one of their number to be chairman
of the meeting.
43. The chairman may, with the consent of the meeting, adjourn the
meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be
transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished
at the meetng from which the adjournment took place.
44. At any general meeting, a resolution put to the vote of the
meeting shall be decided on a show of hands, unless a poll is before or upon
the declaration of the result of the show of hands, demanded by the Chairman,
or by at least 3 members present in person, or by a member or members present
in person and representing one tenth of the total voting rights of all
members having the right to vote at the meeting, and unless a poll be so
demanded a declaration of the Chairman of the meeting that a resolution has
been carried, or carried unanimously or by a particular majority or lost, or
not carried by a particular majority, and an entry to that effect in the
Minute Book of the Club, shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without
proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or
against that Resolution. The demand for a poll may be withdrawn.
45. Every member of the Club shall have the right to attend general
meetings of the Club but only Founder, Ordinary, Family, Young Person (A) and
Young Person (B) members shall have the right to vote there at. No member
shall be entitled to vote at any meeting unless all the monies then due from
him to the Club have been paid. Every member of the Club entitled to vote
shall have one vote and no more, except that, in case of equality of votes,
the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
COMMITTEE AND OFFICERS
48. The Committee of the Club shall be the Commodore, Vice Commodore,
Rear Commodore Sailing, Rear Commodore Administration, Honorary Treasurer,
and not less than seven or more than twelve other members of the Club elected
as herein provided. Five members shall be a quorum at a Committee meeting.
The Committee may from time to time elect a chairman who in case of equality
of votes shall have a casting vote.
49. The officers of the Club shall consist of a Commodore,
Vice-Commodore, Rear Commodore Sailing, Rear Commodore Administration and an
Honorary Treasurer, all of whom shall be members of the Club.
50. No member of the Committee or officer of the Club shall receive
any remuneration for his services in the capacity of a member of the
Committee or officer but nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit
the payment by the Club of any sum to the Honorary Treasurer for clerical or
other assistance.
51. At every annual general meeting of the Club the officers and
other members of the Committee of the Club shall retire from office. The
officers and other retiring members of the Committee shall be eligible for
re-election at the same or any other general meeting of the Club.
52. Subject as herein before provided the election of officers and
other members of the Committee of the Club shall take place in the following
manner:-
(a)
Any two members of the Club shall be at liberty to nominate any other member
to serve as an officer or other member of the Committee of the Club, having
previously received his assent.
(b) The name of each member so nominated, together with the names of
his proposer, and seconder, shall be sent in writing to the Honorary
Secretary of the Club at least fourteen days before the annual general
meeting.
(c) A list of the candidates' names in alphabetical order, with the
proposers and seconders’ names, shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the
Club house of the Club for at least seven days immediately preceeding the
annual general meeting.
(d) Balloting lists shall be prepared (if necessary) containing the
names of the candidates only, in alphabetical order, and each member present
at the annual general meeting and qualified to vote shall be entitled to vote
for any number of such candidates not exceeding the number of vacancies.
(e) In case there shall not be a sufficient number of candidates
nominated the Committee shall full up the remaining vacancy or vacancies.
(f) If any candidate after being elected declines to serve, the
candidate who has the next largest number of votes shall be deemed to be
elected.
(g) If two or more candidates obtain an equal number of votes, the
Committee shall select by lot from such candidates the candidate or
candidates who is or are to be elected.
53
All casual vacancies arising amongst the Committee or officers of the Club
shall be filled by the Committee. Any member of the Committee or any officer
so appointed shall retire at the following annual general meeting but shall
be eligible as a candidate for election as a member of the Committee or
officer at such annual general meeting.
54. The office of a Committee member shall be vacated: -
(a)
if his membership of the Club is avoided in accordance with rule 19 hereof;
(b) if he absents himself from the meetings of the Committee for a
period of six calendar months without special leave of absence from the other
members of the Committee;
(c) if he gives the Committee one calendar month's notice in writing
that he resigns his office;
(d) if he is removed by extraordinary resolution passed at a general
meeting of the Club.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE COMMITTEE
55. (1) The Committee of the Club shall cause proper books of account
to be kept in respect of:
(a)
all sums of money received and expended by the Club and the matters in
respect of which such receipts and expenditure take place; and
(b) the assets and liabilities of the Club.
(2)
The books of account shall be kept at the registered office of the Club, or
at such other place or places as the Committee think fit, and shall always be
open to the inspection of the Committee. The Committee shall from time to
time determine whether, and to what extent, and at what extent and places,
and under what conditions and regulations, the accounts and books of the
Club, or any of them, shall be open to the inspection of the Club not being
members of the Committee and no member (not being a member of the Committee)
shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the
Club except as conferred by statute or authorised by the Committee.
(3) Once at least in every year the Committee shall lay before the
Club in general meeting an account of income and expenditure for the period
since the preceding account. A balance sheet shall be made out in every year
and laid before the Club in general meeting, made up to a date not more than
six months before such meeting, and a copy thereof shall, twenty-one days
previously to the meeting, be sent to the persons entitled to receive notices
of general meetings in the manner in which notices are to be given hereunder.
Every such account and balance sheet shall be accompanied by a report of the
Committee and the account, report and balance sheet shall be signed by two
members of the Committee and counter-signed by the Honorary Secretary.
56. The Committee shall exercise all the powers and perform all the
duties of Directors under The Act and any statutory modification or
re-enactment thereof for the time being in force, and subject to the
provisions of the memorandum of Association and of these Rules shall have
full powers of management and control of the Club, and shall exercise all
such powers and do all such acts and things, as may be exercised and done by
the Club, and are not hereby or by statute required to be exercised or done
by the Club in General Meeting. Sub-sections (1) to (6) of Section 185 of the
Act shall not apply to the Club.
Without in any way limiting the aforesaid powers the Committee shall
have power to appoint, pay, and dismiss a Secretary and such other servants
as they may deem necessary and may elect any servant if not a member of the
Club a Temporary member during his tenure of office, or for such short time
as they may think fit.
The Committee of the Club may issue debentures, debenture stock,
bonds, guarantees, undertakings or obligations of the Club at any time, in
any form or manner, and for any amount, and may raise or borrow for the
purposes of the Club any sum or sums of money either upon mortgage or charge
of all or any of the property of the Club, whether present or future, or on
bonds or debentures secured by trust deed or otherwise or not secured as they
may think fit.
57 The Committee of the Club shall have power to appoint members of
the Club as President and as Vice Presidents. Such appointments shall be made
at a meeting of the Committee prior to the Annual General Meeting and the
President and any Vice Presidents so appointed shall hold office for the
ensuing year. They shall be entitled to attend meetings of the General
Committee and to receive copies of the Minutes of the meetings of the General
Committee but shall not be Directors for the purposes of the Act nor have any
vote at any meeting by reason only of their appointment as President or Vice
Presidents.
REGULATIONS
58. (1) The Committee of the Club shall have power from time to time
to make, alter and repeal all such regulations as they deem necessary or
expedient or convenient for the proper conduct and management of the Club,
and in particular, but not exclusively, they may by such regulations
regulate:-
(a)
the terms and conditions upon which members of the Club and visitors shall be
permitted to use the premises, the Water and the property of the Club;
(b) the terms upon which temporary members may be admitted to
membership of the Club provided that no such temporary member shall be
admitted to membership or to any of the privileges of membership without an
interval of at least two days between his nomination or application for
membership and their admission;
(c) the times of opening and closing the Club-house, and premises of
the Club or any part thereof, the permitted hours for the supply of
intoxicating liquor and the times and conditions on which sailinig may take
place on the Club Water;
(d) the conduct of members of the Club in relation to one another,
and to the Club’s servants;
(e) the control of boats both on and off the Water;
f.
and generally all such
matters as are commonly the subject matter of Club rules.
(2)
The Committee shall adopt such means as they deem sufficient to bring to the
notice of members of the Club all such regulations, alterations and repeals;
and all such regulations so long as they shall be in force, shall be binding
upon all members of the Club. Provided, nevertheless, that no regulations
shall be inconsistent with, or shall affect or repeal anything contained in
the Memorandum of Association or the Rules of the Club and that any
regulation may be set aside by a special resolution of a general meeting of
the Club.
59. The Committee of the Club may from time to time delegate any of
their powers to a sub-committee or sub-committees, consisting of one or more
member or members of the Club, and not necessarily a member or members of the
Committee, as they shall think fit to appoint, and may recall or revoke any
such delegation or appointment. Provided that no sub-committee concerned with
the, purchase for the Club or with the supply by the Club of intoxicating
liquor shall include any members who are not Committee members. Any
sub-committee shall, in the exercise of the powers so delegated, conform to
any regulations that may be prescribed by the Committee.
AUDIT
60. An auditor or auditors shall be appointed and their duties
regulated in accordance with the Act or any statutory modification thereof
for the time being in force.
SEAL
61. The Committee shall provide for the safe custody
of the common seal of the Club. The seal of the Club shall not be affixed to
any instrument except by the authority of a resolution of the Committee and
in the presence of at least two members of the Committee and the Honorary
Secretary or such other person as the Committee may appoint for the purpose;
and these two members of the Committee and the Honorary Secretary, or other
person as aforesaid, shall sign every instrument to which the seal of the
Club is so affixed in their presence.
DISSOLUTION
62. Clause 5 of the Memorandum of Association relating to the winding
up and dissolution of the Club shall have effect as if the provisions thereof
were repeated in these Rules. Upon the winding up and dissolution of the Club
the assets thereof shall not be divided among the members but shall be
transferred to some other organisation which in the opinion of the members is
of a similar character and has similar objects to the Club.
NOTICES
63. A notice may be given by the Club to any member either personally
or by sending it by post to him or her at his or her registered address.
Where a notice is sent by post service of the notice shall be deemed to be
effected by properly addressing, prepaying and posting a letter containing
the notice and shall be deemed to have been effected at the time at which the
letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.
MARGINAL NOTES
64 Any marginal notes and the headings in these
Rules shall not be taken as part thereof, or in any manner affect the
interpretation or construction of the same.
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