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1. |
The name of the club
is Loch Broom Sailing Club and the pennant of the club shall incorporate
a red herring. |
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2. |
The object of the
club is to promote and facilitate the sport of sailing. |
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3. |
Any amateur of
either sex whether the owner of yacht or boat or not who is keen and
interested in sailing is eligible as a candidate for membership. No
commercial use may be made of any club premises or equipment. |
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4. |
The club on the
recommendation of the committee may in general meeting elect honorary
members. |
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5. |
Every candidate for
membership shall be nominated by one member and seconded by another and
his or her name and address and any other particulars the committee may
require, shall be sent to the honorary secretary. |
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6. |
Members other than
honorary members may be elected at any 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. |
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7. |
Annual
Subscriptions, as may be agreed by the Committee, and ratified at an
Annual General Meeting, shall be due at the First of January for the
year ahead. Any member not paying by 31st March may at the discretion
of the Committee and on notification have their membership terminated or
be asked to re-apply for membership. |
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8. |
Every member joining
the club implicitly undertakes to comply with these rules 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 them for an explanation of their conduct and shall give them
an opportunity of defending themselves or resigning their membership.
The vote on a resolution 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 resolution. |
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9. |
There may be an
entrance fee for members of such a sum as the committee may from time to
time prescribe. |
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10. |
Categories of
Membership shall be as follows:- Full Membership, Family Membership,
Senior Citizen Membership, Junior Membership and Honorary Membership. |
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10a |
Full Members shall
have full voting rights, eligibility to hold office or committee
membership and will have full access to all amenities. |
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10b |
Family Membership
shall be available to husband and wife or partners and dependant
children up to and including the age of 16 years. Full voting rights at
any one time will only apply to both adults in a Family Membership who
shall be eligible for office or committee membership. All members in a
Family Membership shall have access to all amenities as shall be
appropriate. Dependents shall at all times be the responsibility of one
or other adult.
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10c |
Senior citizen
Membership may apply to any member attaining the age of sixty-five years
and they shall have full voting rights, eligibility for office or
committee membership and access to all the amenities of the Club. |
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10d |
Junior Membership
shall apply to members of fifteen to seventeen years inclusive. They
may have full voting rights or be eligible to hold office or committee
membership at the discretion of the Committee. Amenities as may be
appropriate will be available to them as agreed by the Committee. |
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10e |
Honorary Membership
shall apply as per Clause 4. Honorary members shall have full voting
rights and eligibility to hold office and for committee membership and
shall have access to all amenities. |
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10f |
No member in any
year may be entitled to exercise any rights or privileges of membership
until their entrance fee and subscription for that year and all arrears
if any are paid. |
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10g |
A member elected
after the 1st October in any year who shall have paid their subscription
for that year shall not be required to pay any subscription for the
following year. |
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11a |
The officers of the
club shall consist of a Commodore, a Vice-Commodore, an Honorary
Secretary, and an Honorary Treasurer who shall be elected at the annual
general meeting in each year to hold office until the conclusion of the
next annual general meeting. The retiring officers shall be eligible
for re-election. |
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11b |
No candidate for
election to any office (other than the retiring officers) shall be
proposed unless the name of such candidate and their proposer shall have
been sent to the honorary secretary before the 1st February or at some
time as may be agreed by the Committee. |
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11c |
In organizing any
event that will involve children under the age of 16, not accompanied by
their parents, the Club will follow the guidance given by the Highland
Council in its document "Child protection policies for your community
group" http://www.highland.gov.uk/cx/pdf/child_protection_policy.PDF |
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12a |
The committee shall
consist of the officers, ex-officio and not more than twelve members of
the club elected by the club in general meeting to hold office until the
conclusion of the next annual general meeting. |
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12b |
Candidates for
election to the committee shall be those members of the retiring
committee who shall offer themselves for re-election and such other
members of the club whose nominations duly proposed and seconded by
members of the club in writing shall have been sent to the honorary
secretary in writing on or before the 1st February or at some time as
might be agreed by the Committee. |
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12c |
If a casual vacancy
occurs by death or resignation the committee may co-opt a member to fill
the vacancy. |
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12d |
If the number of
candidates duly proposed and seconded exceeds the number of vacancies to
be filled the election shall be by ballot. |
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12e |
A quorum for any
committee meeting shall be five. |
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13a |
The committee shall
manage the affairs of the club according to the rules and shall apply
the funds of the club to the objects of the club. |
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13b |
The committee shall
make such bylaws, rules and regulations as they think fit in the
management of any club premises or activities. |
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13c |
It shall be the
responsibility of the honorary treasurer to keep a complete and accurate
account of the club's finances. |
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13d |
The income of the
LBSC shall be solely used for furthering the objects of the club and for
no other purpose. |
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13e |
In the
event of dissolution of the LBSC any assets remaining after settlement
of all debts and liabilities shall not be paid to, or distributed among
its members but shall be given or transferred to a recognised charitable
organisation(s) having similar objects to those of the LBSC. |
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14. |
At the annual
general meeting in each year a member shall be appointed as honorary
auditor whose duty it shall be to audit the accounts of the club for the
then current year. In the event that he is unwilling or unable to act
the committee shall appoint a substitute. |
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15a |
An annual general
meeting shall be held at some place in Ullapool to be named and on a day
in the month of March, April or May, to be fixed by the Commodore. The
honorary secretary shall at least fourteen days before the date of such
meeting post or deliver to each member notice thereof and of the
business to be brought forward thereat. |
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15b |
No business (except
the passing of accounts and the election of officers, committee and
honorary auditor), and any business that the committee may order to be
inserted in the notice convening the meeting, shall be discussed as such
meeting unless notice thereof be given to the honorary secretary before
the 1st February prior to such meeting or at some time as might be
agreed by the Committee. |
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15c |
The committee may,
on giving fourteen days notice, call a general meeting of the club for
any specific business, the nature of which shall be stated in the
summons convening the meeting, and the discussion at such meeting shall
be confined to that business only. |
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15d |
The committee shall
also call a general meeting on the written request of six members. |
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15e |
At a general meeting
of the club each eligible member may have one vote. In case of an
equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote. |
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NEW RULES, AMENDMENTS AND ALTERATIONS |
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16a |
Notice of any
alteration or addition to the rules intended to be proposed by a member
of the club shall be given to the secretary in writing before the first
February if the same is to be proposed at the annual general meeting at
which the same is to be brought forward, and full particulars of any
such proposed alterations or additions shall be set out in the notice
convening the meeting. |
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16b |
All such proposed
alteration s or additions and any amendments to them which may be
proposed and seconded shall be put to the vote of the meeting and
provided that on a show of hands or, if demanded, on a poll, a majority
of two thirds of the votes of the members present and voting shall be
cast in favour of any proposed alterations or additions or amendments
then the same shall be deemed to be carried. |
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Commodore: P G
Copestake Vice Commodore: S Osborne |
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(Incorporating
amendments as presented at the Annual General Meeting 21st
March 2003) |
