RICHMOND LEG BREAKERS
CRICKET CLUB
RULES – Version 6
(12th February 2013)
1. Name, Objects and Colours
The Club shall be called the Richmond Leg Breakers
Cricket Club and is constituted for the purpose of taking part in and
encouraging the sport of cricket. The colours of the Club shall be black, blue
and gold in stripes, the gold stripe lying between the blue and the black and
being of half their width.
2. Adherence to the Laws of Cricket and
the ECB
The Club shall observe the Laws of Cricket as
maintained by the M.C.C.
Observance of the rules of the England and
Wales Cricket Board shall include the guidance notes and codes of practice issued
by the ECB on safety, child protection, and equal opportunity, including the
rights to equal access to a facility or programme or equipment regardless of
age, sex, ethnicity, occupation, religion, sexual orientation, or political
persuasion.
3. Classes of Members
The Club shall consist
of the following classes of members:
Honorary
Full
Social
4. Honorary Members
The Committee shall have power to elect as Honorary
members, for life or for a period, any persons whom they consider to have
rendered or to be rendering particularly meritorious service to the Club.
Honorary members shall not be required to pay any entrance fee or annual
subscriptions and shall enjoy all the privileges of Full members.
5. Full Members
The Committee shall have power to elect any
candidate as a Full member on payment of the required entry fee and
subscription. Full members shall be entitled to use any or all of the Club's facilities
and equipment and shall have the right to vote at Club General Meetings.
6. Social Members
The Committee shall have power to elect any
candidate as a Social member on payment of the required entry fee and
subscription. Social members shall not be entitled to use the equipment of the
Club and may not vote at Club General Meetings.
7. Application for Membership
Every candidate for election to membership shall
furnish such information about themselves on an application form as the
Committee may require.
8. Election of Members
The names of every candidate for election to
membership shall be exhibited on the Club Web site notice board for at least
six days before the Committee meeting at which the candidature is to be
considered. Election shall be at the absolute discretion of the Committee. A
candidate for election to any class of membership whose entrance fee and
subscription have been received may use the facilities of the Club at the
Captain's discretion.
9. Entrance Fees and Subscriptions
a) Entrance fees and annual subscriptions shall be
determined from time to time by a General Meeting of the Club, and are shown in
the schedule appended to these Rules.
b) The entrance fee and first year's subscription of
every candidate for election to membership, other than Affiliated membership,
shall be deposited with the Honorary Secretary before the proposal is submitted
to the Committee and shall be refunded if the candidate is not elected.
c) Every member elected between 1st
January and 30th June shall pay the subscription appropriate to his
class of membership for the current year.
d) Every member elected between 1st July and 31st August
in any year shall pay a subscription for that Club year of one half the annual
subscription appropriate to his class of membership.
e) Every member elected between 1st
September and 31st December in
any one year shall pay the subscription appropriate to his class of membership
for the current Club year and shall be exempt from payment of any further
subscription until January 1st in the succeeding year.
f) The annual subscription of all members is payable
on March 1st each year.
g) No member shall be entitled to wear the colours
of the Club or to use the Club property or to represent the Club in any match
until he has paid his subscription and other liabilities, unless invited to do
so by the Captain.
10. Failure to pay dues
Any member whose current liabilities are in arrears
on 1st October in any year shall be debarred from the privileges of
the Club until such payment is made. Any member whose subscription or other
liabilities up to the preceding 1st October remain unpaid at 31st
December shall be declared a defaulter at the Committee meeting next following
and his name shall be posted as such on the Club notice board. Every member
declared a defaulter shall cease to be a member of the Club unless a written
guarantee approved by the Committee be given that the amount due to the Club
will be paid within one month and unless the amount so guaranteed shall be so
paid.
11. Powers of the Honorary Secretary
All subscriptions and other monies due from members
and other persons shall be personal debts to the Honorary Secretary, for the
time being, who shall hold the same in trust for the Honorary Treasurer; and
the Committee shall have power to allow the Honorary Secretary from the Club
funds all legal and other expenses he may incur in recovering such debts.
12. Change of Class of Membership
Every member wishing to be transferred from one
class of membership to another shall give due notice in writing to the Honorary
Secretary. No member shall be so transferred without the approval of the
Committee.
13. Resignation
Any member wishing to resign his membership shall
give notice in writing before September 1st to the Honorary Secretary, who
shall submit such notice to the Committee. The resignation shall not be valid
until it has been accepted by the Committee.
14. Submission of Members to the Rules
All members shall submit to the Rules and By-Laws of
the Club for the time being in force and shall accept as final the Committee's
interpretation thereof and the Committee's decisions.
15. Expulsion of Members or their
Suspension
a) The Committee may, for any reason which to them
seems sufficient, by notice in writing addressed to the member in question,
request any member to resign his membership, or to suspend any member from his
membership for such period as they may direct.
b) If a member so required to resign fails to comply
with the request within fourteen days, a General Meeting of the Club may be
convened, of which fourteen days notice shall be given, stating that the object
of the Meeting is to consider the request of the Committee for the resignation
of such member, and it shall be lawful for the General Meeting so convened to
resolve, by a majority of votes in the ratio of two to one, to expel the member
from the Club. Any member so expelled shall not be eligible for re-election and
shall forfeit all right to, or claim upon, the Club, its property or funds. At
any Meeting held under this Rule fifteen shall be a quorum.
c) The Committee shall forthwith after resolving to
suspend a member under the provisions of this Rule cause a notice of the
suspension to be given or sent by post to such member and to be posted on the
Club notice board and shall notify the member concerned that the Committee
will, if requested by him in writing not less than ten days after the date of
the notice, bring forward the matter of suspension at the next General or
Special General Meeting of the Club, which may either continue such suspension
for such period as the Meeting shall specify or, alternatively, may determine
such suspension if the same shall then be in force. A member shall not be
entitled to any refund or rebate of his subscription during the period of his
suspension.
16. Exclusion of Expelled or Suspended
Members and/or Defaulters
No member shall introduce into the Club premises any
person who is a defaulter or who has been expelled from the Club or (during the
period of this suspension) any member who has been suspended from his
membership.
17. General Meetings
A General Meeting of the Club shall be held whenever
the Committee directs and shall be competent to deal with all matters of which
notice has been given.
18. Annual General Meeting
An Annual General Meeting of the Club shall be held
during the first quarter of every year on a date fixed by the Committee. This
Meeting shall confirm the minutes of the previous general meeting, consider the
accounts for the past year ended December 31st, receive reports from each of
the Club officers other than the Deputy Captain, select Officers for the
ensuing year namely the President (every 5 years), Captain, Deputy Captains,
Honorary Secretary, Honorary Treasurer, Fixtures Secretary, Net Secretary,
Social Secretary, and Kit Secretary, elect two committee members and shall be
competent to deal with all other matters brought before it, of which notice has
been given previously to the Honorary Secretary . The meeting should be chaired
by the Captain of the Club and all resolutions should be passed by a majority
of those present excepting rule changes where a two thirds majority will be
required. In the event of a tied vote the Chairman of the meeting should have
the casting vote. Social members may not vote.
19. Special General Meetings
On receipt of a requisition signed by not less than
seven members of the Club and specifying the business which such members wish
to bring before the Club, the Honorary Secretary shall within six days issue a
notice convening a Special General Meeting to be held on a date not less than
six and not more than twelve days after the issue of the notice. A Special
General Meeting so convened shall be competent to deal with all matters specified
in the requisition.
20. Quorum at General Meetings
At any duly convened General Meeting four shall form
a quorum of which three shall be committee members and officers of the Club.
21. Notice of Meetings
The Honorary Secretary shall send a notice of the
date and general purpose of each General Meeting, not later than one month
before the date of the Meeting, to every Honorary, Life, Full, Student and
Family member and at the discretion of the Committee to any other members and
shall cause a copy to be displayed on the Club notice board. The notice shall
invite members to submit items for the agenda and nominations for any vacancies
due to be filled by election at the Meeting under Rules 24 and 25. He shall
cause a copy of the agenda to be displayed on the Club notice board six days
before the Meeting.
22. Officers
The Officers of the Club shall consist of the
following:- A President, an Captain, not more than three Deputy Captains, an
Honorary Treasurer, an Honorary Secretary, a Fixtures Secretary, Net Secretary,
and Social Secretary . The officers of the club shall hold office until the
Annual General Meeting of the year following their election with the exception
og the President who shall hold office for a 5 year period.
All these officers shall be
eligible for election or re-appointment as the case may be.
23. The Committee
The Committee of the Club shall consist of the
President, Captain, Hon. Treasurer, Hon Secretary, Fixtures Secretary, Net
secretary, Social Secretary and two members elected at the Annual General
Meeting. The main Committee should meet twice a year at the beginning and end
of each summer season. At any duly convened meeting three shall form a quorum.
The committee may delegate
its powers to approve new members to a sub committee of no fewer than three
officers of the Club. Any resolutions put before the committee should be
approved by a majority of the committee. The President does not have a vote.
24. Proposal of Officers and Committee
No members other than Life members, Full members,
Student members and Social members shall be elected as Officers or as members
of the Committee other than by special resolution of the AGM. Nomination of a
member for election as such shall be made by two other members, who shall give
notice of nomination and of the consent thereto of the member concerned in
writing to the Honorary Secretary at least seven days before the date fixed for
the General Meeting at which the election is to take place. The notice shall
specify the name of the member proposed and the names of the members nominating
him.
25. Nomination of Committee
If the number of vacancies to be filled at a General
Meeting exceeds the number of candidates nominated as above, or if in the
opinion of the Committee any member is specially qualified to fill any
particular office, the Committee may at any duly convened Committee meeting,
held before the General Meeting at which officers are to be elected, nominate
by a majority of four-fifths of those present, a member for election at such
subsequent General Meeting.
26. Casual Vacancies
Casual vacancies among members of the Committee
(other than the Captain) shall be filled by the Committee, each member so
appointed holding office until the next General Meeting, when an election shall
be held to fill the position for the remainder of the unexpired term of the
original holder.
27. Management of the Club
The Committee of the Club shall be responsible for
the general policy and management of the Club. The Honorary Secretaries and the
Honorary Treasurer may be assisted in their respective offices by Assistant
Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers, whom they shall select and who shall be
approved by the Committee.
28. Control of Cricket
The Captain, or in his absence a Deputy Captain,
shall have entire control over the composition and management of any team which
represents the Club and, subject to any resolution of the Committee, over all
matters affecting the cricket of the Club. In the absence of the Captain and
the Deputy Captains any member of the Committee authorised by the Captain may
act in his place except with regard to the composition of teams for club
matches.
29. Alterations to Rules
Alterations to the Rules and By-Laws shall be made
only by the authority of a General Meeting of the Club and the proposed
alteration shall be specified in the notice convening the Meeting; but the
Committee shall have power to make By-Laws and Regulations having the force of
Rules and to alter or suspend any Rule, such alteration or suspension to remain
in force until the next General Meeting.
30. Use of the Name of the Club
Except for the necessary business of the Club, or
for the purpose of entry on the authority of the Captain at any athletic
competition, no member shall cause his name to be published as a member of the
Club without the previous authorisation of the Committee.
31. Winding up of the Club
Should the membership of the club ever reduce to
such a level that it ceases to be able to field a team, The club may be wound
up at a special General meeting of the Club provided that more that 75% of all
those members eligible to vote agree. If any member is unable to attend such a
meeting he may appoint another member to act as his Proxy. In the event that
the club is wound up the assets, debts and liabilities of the Club shall be
divided or shared equally between those paid up members of the club who are
eligible to vote.
BY-LAWS
Dress
I
– Members representing Club teams, taking part in Club matches, or representing
the Club, shall wear clothing bearing the Club colours in black, Blue and Gold
and approved by the Committee.
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Cricket
II – Any damage that occurs to any
Club equipment shall be reported to the Captain or his representative forthwith
by the person then using the equipment. The Committee shall have power to
charge any member whose default or negligence contributed to the damage with
the whole or part of the expense of repairing or renewing the equipment
III – The Captain or his nominees
shall act as umpire in all Club matches
IV – All match fees shall be due at
the commencement of the game.
V – Expenses incurred by the Club
in fielding teams selected by the Captain shall be apportioned between the Club
and the members concerned on a basis determined by the Committee each year and
published at the Annual General Meeting.
VI – Any member who damages any
property of the Club or any property held in trust by the Club shall
immediately have the same repaired or replaced at his own expense.
VII – Any member introducing a
visitor into the Club shall be responsible for his expenses and for any negligent
damage caused by him to the property of the Club.
VIII – Any complaint respecting the
administration of the Club or the conduct of any member, shall be made in
writing to the Hon. Secretary, and not to the person concerned.
Version 6 - Amended
following AGM dated 12th
February 2013