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APPENDIX.
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Club whose subscription is unpaid on the 1st day of August shall cease to be a member of this Association.

7. The Annual General meeting shall be held between the 20th and the 31st of May in each year. The Secretary shall give seven clear days' notice to all affiliated Associations and Clubs, of the place, the day and the hour of such Meeting, A printed abstract of the Treasurer's accounts and an agenda specifying the nature of the business to be transacted at that Meeting shall accompany the notice.

8. The names of the proposed Officers and Auditors, with the names of their proposers and seconders, shall be sent to the Secretary on or before the 1st day of May in each year.

9. Notice of any business (other than the Election of Officers, appointing Auditors, and the consideration of the Accounts and Balance Sheet, and of the Report of the Council, and not being such as by Statute requires a special resolution) to be submitted at the Annual General Meeting, shall be given to the Secretary on or before the 1st day of May in each year, and a copy of such notice, with the names of the proposer and seconder, shall be sent to the affiliated Associations and Clubs on or before the 8th day of May in each year. Notice of any amendment to the business to be so submitted shall be given to the Secretary on or before the 15th day of May in each year.

10. The Secretary shall convene an Extraordinary General Meeting at any time on receiving a requisition stating the objects of the Meeting and signed by the Secretaries of not less than twenty Associations or Clubs affiliated to this Association. The Council have power at any time to convene a Special General Meeting for the purpose of submitting to the Meeting any alterations or additions to these Rules that the Council may deem expedient.[1] An agenda of the business to be transacted at any such Meeting (or at any Extraordinary General Meeting convened by the Council under Article 20) shall accompany the notice convening the Meeting.

11. The Association shall be governed by a Council, consisting of the officers (i.e. a President, six Vice-Presidents, and a Treasurer), ten representatives of Divisions, and representatives from affiliated Associations, all of whom shall be duly qualified according to the Articles and Rules, and elected annually as therein provided. The retiring Council shall be eligible for re-election. The representatives of Divisions and Associations shall retire on the 30th day of June in each year. All past

  1. For the necessary majority requisite to pass such alterations or additions to these Rules, see Article 22.