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CLUB RULES
1. That this Club shall be called “
2. That the object of the Club shall be
the pastime and the sport of cycling, and the club colours shall be red, white
and blue.
3. Membership shall be open to all
persons. The family of a Senior 1st
Claim member will be deemed associate members.
4. The club will be lead by an elected
Honorary President.
5. An Executive Committee shall consist of
Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, Time Trial Secretary, Road and
Track Secretary, Social Secretary, Captain, Procurement Officer, Membership
Secretary, plus one member from the floor.
6. The President and the officials of the
Executive Committee are to be 1st Claim members and shall be elected
by ballot of the members at the Annual General Meeting.
7. The Committee shall have the power to
decide all questions not provided for in these rules.
8. The Chairman or Presiding Officer at
any meeting shall have an extra or casting vote and shall have unlimited
authority on every question of order.
9. No member of the Executive Committee is
to hold office or serve on a committee of any other cycling club.
10. Any member of the Committee failing to
attend three consecutive meetings without satisfactory explanation to the
Committee shall be considered to have resigned their office. The vacant office to be filled in accordance
with Rule 7.
11. In addition to the above, two Auditors,
Social Committee, Mountain Bike Representative, Cyclo-Cross Representative and
necessary Delegates, Timekeepers, Handicappers and a Trophy Steward are to be
elected by ballot at the AGM.
12. The Secretary shall keep an attendance
record of Committee Meetings and Minutes.
13. That the Club elected committee shall
hold an open meeting on the first Monday of each month during the year. The member from the floor participating at
these meetings must be nominated.
14. A Special Meeting [an ‘Extraordinary
General Meeting’] may be called by a decision at a Committee meeting or by
written application to the Secretary, signed by two members and approved by a
Committee meeting. All paid-up members
are to be given 21 days’ written notice of the meeting. A notice is also to be displayed on the club
notice board.
15. A prospective Club member must fill in an
application form and present it with the appropriate fee to the Membership
Secretary. The application will be
presented to the Committee for approval.
The subscriptions of all new members shall be valid for 12 months from
joining. Any member being 3 months in
arrears with subscriptions shall be deemed to have left the Club. In these circumstances no member may re-join
the club within a 12 month period until all back subscriptions are paid in
full.
16. On ceasing membership all club property
is to be returned to the Secretary.
17. That 2nd Claim members are to
be allowed to debate club matters at any meeting at the Chairman’s discretion,
but have no power to vote or hold office.
18. Members wishing to compete in CTT or BC
events must be fully paid up before the date of their first event.
19. All notices of motion and nominations for
office for the agenda of AGM must be in the hands 28 days prior AGM. Agendas are to be distributed to all paid-up
members 14 days prior to the AGM.
Secretaries and Auditors reports to conform to the above.
20. There must be a quorum (25%) of Club
members present at AGMs and EGMs to action the matters of business.
21. The Club may elect to Honorary Life
Membership any member it wishes to honour, such election may be made at AGM
after proper notice of motion. Such Life
Members shall be entitled to all privileges of membership.
22. There shall be three Trustees of the Club
in whom all property of the club be vested.
The Trustees are the Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer during their term
of office.
23. That no rules shall be amended or
rescinded except at an AGM or Special Meeting [EGM] called for that purpose.
24. That these Rules shall be printed and a
copy supplied to every member and prominently displayed in the club room.
25. A member resigning their 1st
Claim membership of