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Articles of Association as amended following
Annual General Meeting held on 18th May 2024
Company number: 06714071
THE COMPANIES ACTS 1985-2006
COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION of
ENGLISH INDOOR BOWLING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
1.
1.1.
1.2.
In these regulations and in the Memorandum of Association:
1.1.1.
“Act” means the Companies Act 2006 including any statutory modification or
re-enactment thereof for the time being in force and any provisions of the
Companies Act 2006 for the time being in force;
1.1.2.
“Affiliated Bodies” means those bodies which are affiliated in accordance with
Article 2.2;
1.1.3.
“Annual General Meeting” means the annual general meeting referred to in
Article 7;
1.1.4.
“Articles” means the articles of the Association;
1.1.5.
“Association” means English Indoor Bowling Association Limited.
1.1.6.
“Board” means the board of directors of the Association;
1.1.7.
“clear days” in relation to the period of a notice means that period excluding
the day when the notice is given or deemed to be given and the day for which
it is given or on which it is to take effect;
1.1.8.
“Club” means a club established to promote indoor bowling that has the use of
a playing surface, rinks, banks, ditches and other facilities required by the
Laws of the Sports of Bowls published from time to time by the current World
Indoor Body;
1.1.9.
“communication” and “electronic communication” mean the same as in the
Electronic Communications Act 2000
1.1.10. “County Association” means (subject to Article 2.5) an unincorporated
association or corporate body comprising Club(s) within an area constituted as
an administrative county immediately prior to 1st May 1974;
1.1.11. “Directors” means the directors of the Association; “Independent Directors”
means a person who is not a member of a Club.
1.1.12. “executed” includes any mode of execution;
1.1.13. “Member” means a Club or County Association admitted to membership of the
Association ;
1.1.14. “Nominee Member” means a person nominated by an unincorporated Club or
County Association to hold the rights of membership on behalf of the relative
Club or County Association in accordance with Article 3.1;
1.1.15. “Office” means the registered office of the Association;
1.1.16. “Officers” mean the President, Senior Vice-President and Junior VicePresident appointed in accordance with Article 37 and 38.
1.1.17. “Playing Member” means any person who is a member of a Club and who is
entitled by virtue of his or her membership to use the indoor playing facilities
of the Club
1.1.18. “Representative” means a member of a Club or official in a County
Association in either case which is a person who is authorised, by a Club or
County Association which is a corporate body (in accordance with Section 323
of the Act) to be its representative at any meeting of the Association;
1.1.19. “seal” means the common seal (if any) of the Association;
1.1.20. “United Kingdom” means Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Unless the context otherwise requires:
1.2.1.
words or expressions contained in these regulations bear the same meaning
as in the Act but excluding any statutory modification thereof not in force when
these regulations become binding on the Association.
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