Eling Sailing Club
Amendments to Rules agreed at EGM

AMENDMENTS TO ELING SAILING CLUB RULES 2007 - AGREED AT THE EGM ON 29 MARCH 2009

CHANGE TO RULE 3.1 (b)

Delete current wording and replace with:

(b) The Secretary shall conduct all correspondence between the Club and other organisations, businesses and members of the public, other than prospective members. It is allowed and expected that Committee members will correspond directly with the membership on matters that relate to their areas of responsibility, provided they always pass a copy of such correspondence to the Secretary for the purpose of maintaining the Club’s records.

CHANGES TO RULE 3.4

Paragraph 2

Reference to “Youth Officer” to be removed and replaced with “Senior Dinghy Instructor”.

Paragraph  2 sub  heading Sailing Sub-Committee will now read;

The Sailing Sub-Committee shall consist of the Sailing Secretary, a Registered Training Establishment Principal, a SWSA Representative, a Cruiser Representative, a Senior Dinghy Instructor, a Coxswain and a Dinghy Representative.

Paragraph  4, 5 and 6

Remove the sub heading  “Youth Sub Committee” and delete the three paragraphs that follow.    

CHANGE TO RULE 5.2

Under sub heading - Cadet Member

Remove “facilities designated and approved by the Youth Officer”   and replace with “facilities under the control of the Sailing Sub-Committee”.

This paragraph will now read:

Cadet Member – being a person, who at the date of election, is under the age of eighteen or in full time education, shall have use of those Club facilities under the control of the Sailing Sub-Committee.

NEW PARAGRAPH – 3.12

Insert new paragraph

Webmaster 3.12 - The Webmaster shall maintain the Club website under the direction and guidance of the Publicity Officer. The Webmaster shall be legally responsible for the content of the website and can refuse material considered to be unsuitable. However, all material that is displayed on the website shall be approved by the Publicity Officer.

RULE 5.14

Rule 5.14 was introduced at the AGM in October 2008 and changed the way that members could be reinstated.

The wording of this rule change claimed that it overrode the re-instatement of members under rules 5.3,  5.6 and 5.12.  However, in amending the rule book the new Committee formed the opinion that rules 5.3, 5.6, and 5.12 should stand. The EGM decided that these rules should stand.

CHANGE TO RULE 5.2

After the first sentence insert “Persons who become partners of existing full members will not be exempt from serving the probationary period of one year prior to being accepted as a full member”.

The first paragraph of rule 5.2 will now read:

There shall be the following categories of membership with power to vote at all meetings of the Club as indicated in 5.4. Persons who become partners of existing full members will not be exempt from serving the probationary period of one year prior to being accepted as a full member. The rights and privileges of each category of members are defined in the latest edition of the bylaws of the Club.