ORMSKIRK TENNIS CLUB

1. Name

The name of the club shall be "Ormskirk Tennis Club."

2. Objects

To provide for the members

1. Tennis Courts and a Club House and all things incidental to the playing of the game of Tennis.
2. Facilities for such social activities within the Club House as the Committee shall deem desirable.

3. Membership

The membership of the Club shall consist of the following classes of members as hereinafter defined in such numbers as the committee shall decide:

1. Senior Members
2. Student Members
3. Intermediate Members
4. Junior Members
5. House Members
6. Ordinary Life Members
7. Honorary Life Members

The foregoing classes are hereby defined as follows:

1. Senior Member: a person aged 18 years and above paying a full subscription and an entrance fee, who shall be entitled to vote on any matter affecting the Club;
2. Student Member: a person who is continuing full-time education, paying such subscription and entrance fee as the Club may prescribe, who shall be entitled to vote on any matter affecting the Club;
3. Intermediate Member: a person aged 16 years to 17 years paying such subscription and entrance fee as the Club may prescribe, who shall be entitled to vote on any matter affecting the Club, except on the matter relating to the supply and sale of intoxicating liquor;
4. Junior Member: a person between the ages of 9 years to 15 years paying such subscription and entrance fee and enjoying such amenities as the Committee may prescribe, but not entitled to vote on any matter affecting the Club;
5. House Member: a person paying such subscription and entrance fee as the Club may prescribe who is entitled to enjoy all the amenities of the Club House but not to play on the courts except on payment of the requisite visitor's fee but who is entitled to vote on any matter affecting the Club;
6. Ordinary Life Member: Senior Members with a minimum of eight years' membership, paying eight times the full subscription, but thereafter entitled to all the privileges of full membership without paying the annual subscription. Application for Ordinary Life Membership shall be by invitation and the number of such members shall not exceed 10% of the Senior Membership;
7. Honorary Life Member: a member who is elected an Honorary Life Member at any Annual General Meeting shall thereafter be entitled to all the privileges of full membership without paying the annual subscription.

4. Election of Members

1. Applications for membership of any class shall be on the form prescribed by the Committee and shall be signed by a proposer and seconder, who shall each have been a member other than a Junior Member for a least two years and who must state in writing that they consider the applicant to be a suitable person to be admitted as a member;
2. The name and address of the applicant must, for not less than two days before election be prominently displayed in the Club House and election to membership shall be by majority vote of the Committee;
3. Persons may not be admitted to membership, or be admitted as candidates for membership to any privileges of membership, without at least two days interval between nomination or application for membership and admission. Persons becoming members without prior nomination or application may not be admitted to the privileges of membership without at least two days interval between becoming members and admission;
4. On the election of a new member the Honorary Secretary shall notify him or her thereof and request payment of the entrance fee and subscription. No member shall enjoy any of the privileges of membership until such payment has been made.

5. Resignation

Members wishing to resign must give written notice to the secretary before the 1st March in any year. In default of such notice, or if the member plays at the Club during the year, the member will be liable for that year's subscription.

6. Misconduct

If a complaint shall be made to the Committee that any member has transgressed any rules of the Club or misconducted himself or herself to the annoyance of any members, or to persons lawfully on the Club's premises, the Committee shall investigate the complaint and deal with it as they deem fit, with the power to expel the member. Any member so expelled shall have the right to appeal to a general meeting.

7. Officers

The Officers of the Club shall be a Chairman, a Vice Chairman, an Honorary Secretary, an Honorary Treasurer, an Honorary Assistant Secretary and a Captain and a Junior Representative who shall be elected at each Annual General Meeting. They shall hold office until the termination of the next Annual General Meeting when they shall retire, but shall be eligible for re-election.

8. Trustees

The property of the Club, other than cash, which shall be under the control of the Honorary Treasurer, shall be vested in not more than four nor less than two Trustees, who will be appointed and hold office as follows:

1. They must be members of the Club;
2. They shall be appointed by an Annual General Meeting and shall hold office until death or resignation or until removed from office by a resolution at an Annual General Meeting;
3. If by reason of such death, resignation or removal it shall appear that a new Trustee or Trustees shall be appointed this shall be done at an Annual General Meeting or Special General Meeting convened for that purpose;
4. They shall deal with the property of the Club as directed by the Committee of which they shall be ex-officio members and entitled to vote at meetings thereof;
5. They shall be indemnified against liability risk and expense out of Club property.

9. Management

1. The Management of the Club shall be in the hands of a Committee comprising the Officers, the Trustees, and four General Members of whom two shall be male and two shall be female. Of the General Members two shall retire at the termination of each Annual General Meeting in rotation, but shall be eligible for re-election;
2. Any casual vacancy on the Committee shall be filled by the Committee;
3. No business shall be transacted or a Committee Meeting unless at least five members are present;
4. The Committee shall have the sole Management of the Club and of the Club Property;
5. The Committee shall have power to make such Bye-laws and Regulations as they shall think fit and any decision of the Committee upon the interpretation of these rules and of any Bye-laws or regulations shall be final and binding on the members.

10. Entrance Fees and Subscriptions

1. The Entrance Fees shall be such sums as the Club shall decide at each Annual General Meeting;
2. The Annual Subscription of the members shall be due on the 1st April in each year at the rates fixed at the Annual General Meeting, provided that the subscriptions paid on or before the 30th April shall be subject to a 10% discount;
3. In the case of a member joining after 31st July the Committee may, at their discretion, permit a reduced subscription for that year;
4. On the 1st July in each year the Honorary Treasurer shall place on the notice board in the Club House a list of the names of all members whose subscriptions for the current year have not been paid and if a member appearing on the list has not paid his or her subscription by the 1st August the membership of the person shall forthwith be terminated.

11. Accounts

The Accounts of the Club shall be kept by the Honorary Treasurer and the Annual Statements of Account and Balance Sheet shall be made up to the 31st August in each year and, after audit, shall be printed and circulated to members with the notice of the Annual General Meeting.

12. Auditors

An Honorary Auditor of the Club's Accounts and Books shall be appointed at each Annual General Meeting.

13. Annual General Meeting

1. The Annual General Meeting of the members shall be held in September each year;
2. The Honorary Secretary shall give a minimum of seven days written notice to members of the date and time fixed for the meeting;
3. No business shall be transacted at an Annual General meeting unless at least fifteen Senior Members are present.

14. General Meetings

A General Meeting must be convened by the Honorary Secretary within twenty-one days of a direction to do so by the Committee or of the receipt of a requisition signed by at least seven Senior Members requiring a General Meeting to be called and setting out the matters to be dealt with at the Meeting. No other business shall be considered at such General Meeting. The Honorary Secretary shall give seven days written notice to members of the date and time fixed for the Meeting and set out therein the matters to be considered.

15. Hours of Opening

The Club shall be open between the hours of 9 am and 12 midnight each day but the Committee may modify the opening and closing times of the Club within those hours.

16. Licenced Hours

The permitted hours for the sale and supply of intoxicating liquor shall be as follows:

Monday to Thursday		6.30pm	to	10.30pm
Friday		6.30pm	to	11.00pm
Saturday	and	11.30am 4.00pm	to to	2.00pm 11.00pm
Sunday	and	12 noon 5.00pm	to to	3.00pm 7.30pm

provided that no intoxicating liquor shall be supplied at any time on Christmas Day and Good Friday in each year.

17. Sale of Intoxicating Liquor

Intoxicating liquor may be sold by the Club for consumption on the premises to bona fide members of any other Club whose team is playing on the Club's premises during the day on which such team is playing. Subject as aforesaid no intoxicating liquor shall be sold to any person who is not a member of the Club, nor to any person, whether or not a member, who is under the age of eighteen years.

18. Visitors

Every member shall be allowed to introduce visitors, who may use the Courts upon payment of such fee as may from time to time be decided by the Committee, provided that the member shall record the particulars required in the Visitor's Book and pay the appropriate fee to the Honorary Treasure or a member of the Committee and also provided that no visitor residing within fifteen miles of the Club shall use the courts on more than four occasions in any season.

19. Dissolution

If at any General Meeting a resolution for the dissolution of the Club shall be passed by a majority of the members entitled to vote thereat and such resolution shall, at a Special General Meeting held not less than one month nor more than three months thereafter at which not less than one half of the Senior Members shall be present, be confirmed the Trustees shall thereupon proceed to realise the property of the Club. After discharge of all the liabilities of the Club, the Trustees shall give or transfer any surplus among such other Sporting Institutions or Clubs (having objects similar to the objects of the Club ) as the Trustees may determine and upon completion of such gifts or transfers the Club shall be deemed to be dissolved.

20. Alteration of Rules

No rule shall be repealed or altered except at a General Meeting and notice convening the meeting shall contain notice of the intention to propose any new rule or alteration.

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