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 no later than 1st
April 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 (to
include boards) registration fee shall be:
(a) For the first boat registered to a member, £99.00.
(b) For the second or further boat registered to a member, £44.50.
(c) For a youth/junior boat (being a boat on a list approved from time
to time
by the Committee) registered for the predominant
use by a member
under the age of 18 years, £24.50.
The first boat or sailboard registered to a
Young Person A shall be charged at the Youth/Junior boat rate providing the
boat is listed in the current Youth/Junior boat list. The Youth/Junior boat
list will be monitored and modified by the Sail Committee on an ongoing basis.
Subsequent boats and sailboards are charged at the standard 2nd Boat/Board
rate.
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 Unless otherwise prescribed, A
Founder, Honorary, and Ordinary 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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