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BY-LAW PURSUANT OF ARTICLES 12 & 21 OF THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF THE

CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Company Number 3146770

COUNTY  COMMITTEE  ARTICLES

[adopted at a General Meeting on the 21^st March 1998 
and amended at the A.G.M. held on 20^th March 1999]

TITLE

1.       The ……………………………..County Committee of the ………………………….. Region of the C.P.S.A.

(C.P.S.A. County name)      (C.P.S.A. Region name)

AIMS

2.     
[a]  To promote the sport of clay pigeon shooting within the County.

[b]  To advise and assist on all matters relating to clay pigeon shooting within the County.

[c]  To allocate the various County championships.

[d]  To arbitrate on any disputes that may from time to time arise in the County which may be referred to the County Committee (the Committee) by Affiliated or Individual members within the County (save that any dispute falling within the ambit of the disciplinary procedure provided for in the Articles of the Clay Pigeon Shooting Association Ltd. (C.P.S.A.) shall be dealt with as therein provided and not by the Committee).

[e]  To define and operate an acceptable selection procedure for the various County teams.

[f]   To assist and advise the Management Board of the C.P.S.A. (the Board), via the above mentioned Regional Committee, of the requirements and state of the sport within the County.

[g]  To elect two representatives to serve on the above Regional Committee in accordance with these Articles.

STRUCTURE

3.      The Committee shall consist of a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer (hereinafter called the Officers) together with not less than five and not more than nine Committee members.    The Committee shall have power to co-opt such additional members as shall be deemed necessary and may allow such co-opted members the power to vote. Only those members duly elected at the County Annual General Meeting (CAGM), or subsequently co-opted, may attend the County Committee meetings (save that Officers of the Board, i.e. Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Executive Director, or their appointed representatives, shall be ex-officio members of the Committee). The Committee shall meet a minimum of three times in any calendar year and C.P.S.A. members who wish to sit in attendance to observe may be allowed to do so, if, within the duly elected Committee, there is a majority in favour.  Four members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum.   Minutes of all County Committee meetings shall be supplied to the Executive Director and/or Regional Secretary on request. All members of the County Committee (except the ex-officio members) shall retire at the CAGM next following their election and may be eligible for re-election.

QUALIFICATONS

4.      Officers and Committee members, other than ex-officio members, must reside within the County and must be Individual members of the C.P.S.A. in good standing.  All must be of 18 years of age or over

ELECTIONS

5.  
[a] To the County Committee:   Nominations for election to the County Committee may be made from the floor of the CAGM or in writing to the County Secretary prior to that meeting.  Nominations may only be made by Individual C.P.S.A. members in good standing resident within the County.  When more than one nomination is received for an Office of the Committee or when more than nine nominations are received for membership of the Committee a vote shall be taken at the CAGM.  All elections will be on the basis of  “one vote per post per member”.  Only Individual members in good standing of the C.P.S.A. resident in the County and present at the meeting shall be entitled to vote.  Voting may be by show of hands or by ballot according to the will of the meeting.  Elected Officers and Committee members shall hold office from the end of the CAGM.           

[b] To the Regional Committee:  The County Committee has the representation of two of its members on the Regional Committee.  Nominations for these two positions may be made from the floor of the CAGM or in writing to the County Secretary prior to that meeting.  No person may be eligible to represent the County unless that person has been previously elected to the County Committee as per [a] above.  When more than two persons have been nominated an election shall be made by voting at the CAGM as per [a] above.  Those so elected shall represent the County Committee as from the end of the next following Regional AGM in place of the two previous representatives.  Retiring County Committee representatives may be eligible for re-election.    

EXPENSES

6.      Unless previously agreed by the Committee it is understood that all members’ activities for the County shall be on a purely voluntary basis.

GENERAL MEETINGS

7.     
[a]  Only Individual members in good standing of the C.P.S.A. resident within the County shall be entitled to attend County General Meetings and shall be entitled to speak and, with the exception of members under 18 years of age, shall the right to stand for office and to vote.  Officers of the Board, or their appointed representatives, shall be entitled to attend, but not to vote, at all County General Meetings.

[b]   The CAGM shall be held in the month of January (or as soon thereafter as possible so long as it is not held less than 7 days prior to the Regional Annual General Meeting) at a venue to be determined by the County Committee. A County may agree at its AGM to hold an earlier AGM in succeeding years to suit the convenience of its members.

[c]  The Committee may decide to call an Extraordinary General Meeting (CEGM) at such time and place and for the determination or consideration of such matters as it thinks fit and shall give at least 21 days notice in the Association’s magazine PULL ! to all members resident in the County and entitled to attend and vote at such General Meeting.

[d]  On a petition signed by not less than sixteen Individual C.P.S.A. members in good standing resident within the County being presented to the County Secretary, a CEGM shall be called within 42 days of the presentation of such petition to consider the matter contained therein.

FUNDS

8.      The Committee shall have a bank account designated the “.......................................County Committee of the C.P.S.A.”  and the Treasurer shall keep and present to the CAGM true and proper accounts of the Committee’s receipts and expenditure prepared with a year of account ending the 31^st December each year or on another suitable date agreed to at an earlier CAGM.  Such accounts shall be audited by a person approved by the Regional Committee and copies shall be available to members at the CAGM.  Cheques to be drawn on the Committee’s account must be signed by either Chairman or Vice-Chairman and Treasurer.

POWERS

9.      The Committee shall have power to make such rules as they consider will be conducive to the good of the C.P.S.A. members and the management of the sport within the County, but subject always to the decisions of the Board or instructions therefrom.  All such rules or alterations to them shall be presented to the next CAGM for ratification.

ALTERATIONS TO ARTICLES

10.
[a] Alterations to these Articles may only be made by the Board, but they shall be subject to the approval of the Annual General Meeting of the C.P.S.A. in accordance with the company’s Articles of Association.  Whenever possible proposed alterations to these Articles shall be published in the shooting press with the notice calling the AGM.

[b]  These Articles are intended to govern the members of the C.P.S.A. in the organisation of the C.P.S.A. within the County and shall be read in conjunction with and subject to the Articles of the Region and of the C.P.S.A. and shall operate in so far as consistent with the same but in case of inconsistency the Articles of the Region or of the C.P.S.A. shall prevail.

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