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47.
47.1.
48.
48.1.
48.2.
48.3.
No person may be appointed a Director at any Annual General Meeting unless:
not less than 60 nor more than 120 clear days or such other period as the Board may from
time to time decide before the date of the Annual General Meeting in any given year the
Association is given notice that:
47.1.1. is proposed and signed on behalf of a Club which is a Member and seconded and
signed on behalf of a Club which is a Member
47.1.2. states the Member Club’s intention to propose and second the appointment of that
person as a Director;
47.1.3. contains a description of that person not exceeding 100 words to include details of
his or her relevant experience and expertise;
47.1.4. contains the details that, if the person were to be appointed, the Association would
have to file at Companies House; and
47.1.5. is signed by the person who is to be proposed to show his or her willingness to be
appointed; and
The Board shall send to every member a notice with a list containing the names of the
persons willing to be appointed as a Director printed in alphabetical order on a form of
voting paper to be approved by the Board together with a description of each candidate
and a statement of the number of vacancies to be filled (unless the number of duly
nominated and qualified candidates for election as members of the Board shall not exceed
the number of vacancies to be filled in which case a statement to that effect shall be
included when convening the Annual General Meeting and all such candidates shall be
deemed to have been elected).
The voting papers when completed shall be returned to the Office or such other place as
shall be determined by the Board by a date to be fixed by the Board not less than 48 hours
before the date of the Annual General Meeting who shall appoint two scrutineers to
inspect the votes.
The scrutineers shall report in writing to the Chairman the result of such voting and those
candidates (up to the number required to fill the said vacancies) who receive the most
votes shall be declared by the Chairman at the Annual General Meeting and shall be
deemed to have been elected at the Annual General Meeting to be Directors of the
Association.
49.
Every Club which is a Member shall be entitled to one vote only in respect of each
vacancy. No member shall give more than one vote to any candidate. Any voting paper
containing more than the requisite number of votes or more than one vote for any one
candidate shall be rejected by the scrutineers. For the avoidance of doubt County
Associations shall not be entitled to a vote.
50.
In the event of two or more candidates obtaining an equal number of votes it shall be
decided by lot at the said Annual General meeting which of those candidates shall be
eligible for election as a Director
51.
The appointment of a Director must not cause the number of Directors to exceed any
number fixed as the maximum number of Directors.
PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
52.
52.1
No more than one member of the Board may be members of the same Club
52.2
The Board may at their discretion appoint Independent Directors who are not members of
a Club. Independent Directors shall be appointed pursuant to Articles 36, 39.1, 46 and 51
to 55 (inclusive but excluding 54.1 and 55.6), and shall be appointed for terms of up to
three years.
53.
If at the meeting at which a member of the Board retires the vacancy is not filled, the
retiring member of the Board shall, if willing to act, be deemed to have been reappointed
for a further period of three years;
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