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BORDER ICE RINK CLUB
CONSTITUTION AND BYE-LAWS
- 1.
The club shall be called the Border Ice Rink Club and its headquarters shall be at the Border Ice Rink, Golf Course
Road, (formerly Abbotseat Road) Kelso.
- 2. The object of the club shall
be to promote interest in curling, ice skating and other sports and all other games, sports and pastimes and to provide from
the funds of the Club such financial assistance as the Committee of Management may from time to time consider necessary in
these interests and in pursuance of such to make such arrangements with Border Ice Rink Limited for the use of their Ice Rink
and other parts of their premises at Golf Course Road, Kelso as the committee of Management ma think appropriate.
- 3. The membership shall consist of Life, Ordinary and such Temporary and Honorary Members
as may from time to time be elected under the rules.
- 4. The Committee
of Management may in their discretion admit as Temporary Members without payment of subscription, curlers who are members
of recognised Curling Clubs including members of The Royal Caledonian Curling Club, who are taking part in a bonspiel competition
or match in the Ice Rink. Temporary Members shall be subject to the whole rules and by-laws of the
Club and shall have no voice in the management of the affairs of the club. Application for temporary
membership must be approved of by one of the Committee of Management and the Secretary.
- 5.
It shall be competent for two-thirds of the members of a General Meeting upon a recommendation to that effect from
the Committee of Management to confer upon anyone the distinction of Honorary Member in recognition of being a distinguished
person or of services rendered to the Club. Honorary Members shall be exempt from payment of subscription.
They shall be subject to the whole rules and by-laws of the club but shall have no voice in the management of the Club
unless elected to the office of which they shall be eligible.
- 6. The
Committee of Management may elect an Honorary President and Honorary Vice-President who shall hold office until their successors
are appointed.
- 7. The Committee of Management shall consist
of sixteen members. Three members shall be representatives appointed from the Board of Directors
of Border Ice Rink Limited. The President of the Ladies Section of Border Ice Rink Club, the President
of the Border Province of the RCCC and the President of the Junior Curlers of the Border Ice Rink Club shall be members of
the Committee of Management ex officio. The remaining ten members of the Committee of Management
shall be elected at a general meeting of the Club. Five members of the Committee of Management entitled
to vote shall form a quorum. None of the representatives of Border Ice Rink Ltd nor the President
of the Ladies Section of Border Ice Rink Club, the President of the Border Province of the RCCC and the President of the Junior
Curlers of the Border Ice Rink Club shall have voting powers. The committee shall appoint from their
number a President, Vice-President and Junior Vice-President who shall not be entitled to serve in each position for more
than two years. None of the President of the Ladies Section of Border Ice Rink Club, the President
of the Border Province of the RCCC and the President of the Junior Curlers of the Border Ice Rink Club shall be entitled to
be elected President, Vice President or Junior Vice-President. On demitting office the President
shall continue to serve on the Committee of Management for a further year being known as the immediate Past President.
It will be the duty of the Committee of Management to manage and direct ordinary business and affairs of the Club and
any special business that may be remitted to them. The three (or if appropriate four) senior members
(including the immediate Past President) shall retire each year and shall not be eligible for re-election subject to the proviso
that any member of the Committee of Management who holds the office of President, Vice President, Junior Vice-President or
immediate Past President shall not be required to retire by holding such office but unless succeeding to the office of Vice-President,
President or becoming immediate Past President shall retire on ceasing to hold such office and shall not be eligible for re-election
for a further period of one year. Should a vacancy occur it may be filled by the committee.
The committee shall hold a meeting at least once a month (provided sufficient business justifies the holding of such
meeting) to examine the accounts and arrange the affairs of the Club. Minutes should be taken of
the proceedings of the Committee of Management and shall be open to the inspection of any members thereof.
The Committee of Management shall cause correct accounts and books to be kept showing the financial affairs and intro-missions
of the Club. The President shall have a casting as well as a deliberative vote.
- 8. The Committee of Management may invest the funds of the club not required for the immediate
needs of the Club or may lend same at such rate of interest and on such terms conditions as the Committee of Management shall
decide. All investments or any other assets including heritable or leasehold property belonging to
the Club shall be held in the name of the President or Vice-President and the Secretary and Treasurer of the Club for the
time being and the survivors and survivor and their successors in the respective offices as Trustees of the Club and the said
Office Bearers as Trustees foresaid shall hold all investments of the Club finds or any other assets for be-hoof of the Club
and the members thereof present and future.
- 9. An Annual General Meeting of
the members shall be held on a date to be decided by the Committee of Management but not later than the last day of August
for the purpose of electing members of Committee, appointing an auditor and transacting any other competent business of the
Club. At such a General Meeting the Committee of Management shall present its report.
Nominations for appointment to the Committee shall be intimated in writing to the secretary at least seven days prior
to the meeting at which any vacancy by retrial or otherwise is to be dealt with. Seven days notice
shall be given to all members of any General Meeting by Notice inserted in all the Newspapers of the Tweeddale Press Group.
A special General Meeting may be called at any time by the Committee of Management or upon the written requisition
of not fewer than fifty members of the club addressed to the secretary. Such meeting shall be called
and held within ten days from the date of receipt of such requisition. At General Meetings twelve
members shall form a quorum.
- 10. The Treasurer shall receive and
disburse monies belonging to the Club, keep an exact account of same in a Cash Book which shall be audited and submitted to
the Annual Meeting. He shall keep such other accounts and books as are necessary to show the financial
affairs and intro-missions of the Club.
- 11. It will be the duty of the Secretary
to conduct the correspondence, to give notice to each member of all meetings, to keep a Minute Book in which he will enter
all minutes and submit the same for approval to the next meeting. He shall also keep a register of
members of the club.
- 12. Candidates for election to Club membership shall
be proposed and seconded by members of the Club. The names and addresses of candidates and their
proposers and seconders must be entered in a book kept by the Secretary for that purpose and at least fourteen days shall
elapse between the nomination and the date of election, and the names and addresses of the candidates shall also be displayed
in a conspicuous place in the Club premises for at least one week before election.
- 13.
The election of members shall be vested in the Committee of Management and shall be made by election, and shall be
by vote by show of hands. If two or more members of the Committee of Management shall vote against
the election of any person proposed for membership of the Club such person shall not be admitted to membership
- 14. On the admission of a member the Secretary shall notify to him his election furnishing him
with a copy of the rules of the Club. At the same time the Secretary shall intimate to him that until
the Annual Subscription for the current year has been paid, he can not enjoy the privileges and advantages of the Club.
- 15. Non-payment of the Annual Subscription within one month from date of election shall make the
election of the member null and void unless reasons satisfactory to the Committee of Management for non-payment be assigned.
Members from abroad may have their case specially dealt with by the Committee.
- 16.
The Annual Subscription shall be such sums the club may in General Meeting determine from time to time and same shall
be payable in advance on the first day of August in each year and no member whose subscription is unpaid shall be entitled
to any Club privileges whatever until all monies due are paid. If any member’s subscription
remains unpaid at 31sy October in each year he or she automatically shall cease to be a member but this shall not prevent
the committee from taking proceedings for recovery of the amount under Rule 17. Payment of this subscription
shall entitle the member to use the Club premises at such times as the rink is open.
- 17.
Any member who is not desirous of continuing his or her membership must give written notice to the secretary not later
than the first day of July failing which he or she shall be liable for the full subscription for the ensuing year.
- 18. If the conduct of any member either in or out of the Club premises shall in the opinion of
the Committee of Management, be injurious to the character or interests of the Club it shall be in the power of the Committee
to recommend such member to resign and if the member shall refuse or delay to resign within one week from the date of the
recommendation, the Committee shall expel such member and such member shall thereafter not be allowed to enter the Club premises
provided always that such a recommendation shall be made until the member whose conduct is under consideration has afforded
an opportunity of giving an explanation of such conduct to the Committee. In the event of the Committee
being unanimously of the opinion that such a member should immediately be expelled they should have the power to expel such
a member from the Club at Once.
- 19. Any member ceasing to be a member
of the Club shall forfeit all rights to and claims upon the Club, its property and funds.
- 20.
No person under the age of 18 years of age shall be admitted as a member of the Club.
- 21.
Subject to the conditions contained in these rules the Committee of Management shall have the power to make, alter
and amend the Bye-Laws of the Club and to make new Bye-Laws which shall be binding on the members until revoked or otherwise
determined by the Club.
- 22. The Committee without prejudice to the general
powers shall have Special Power to enter into an Agreement with Border Ice Rink Limited for the use of their Rink at Golf
Course Road (formerly Abbotseat Road), Kelso for playing the game of curling and other sports and for the use of the Club
lounge bar, changing rooms and other clubrooms within the premises as a Clubhouse for such periods and upon such terms and
conditions as may from time to time be agreed upon.
- 23. The Committee
of Management shall exercise complete control over the prices of food and drink and the supply of the same.
- 24. No member of Committee and no official Manager or servant employed in the Club shall have
any personal interest in the sale of excisable liquors therein or in the profits arising from such sale.
- 25. Visitors shall not be supplied with excisable liquors in the Club premises unless on the invitation
and in the company of a member and a member shall upon admission of such visitor to the Club premises enter his own name and
the full name and address of the visitor on a book which shall be kept for the purpose and which shall show the date of each
visit.
- 26. Members may introduce to the Club premises not more than
two guests at any one session. Permission to introduce guests at any session may be suspended or modified at the discretion
of the Committee of Management.
- 27. No excisable liquors shall be sold
or supplied for consumption outside the premises of the Club except to member on the premises and for his own consumption
or to a person holding an excise licence for its sale.
- 28. Subject
to any bye-laws regarding hours during which the Clubhouse will be open, the permitted hours for the sale of excisable liquors
shall be at the discretion of the Committee on weekdays from 11 am to 2.30pm and 6.30 pm to 11.00 pm.
- 29. The Committee of Management shall have the power to deal with any matter arising which is
not specially provided for in these rules. None of the foregoing rules shall be altered or added
to except at the General Meeting of the Club. Notice of any motion for alteration or additions to
the rules or bye-laws and all other notices of motion except bye-laws made by the committee of Management in terms thereof
and motions submitted by the Committee of Management must be lodged with the Secretary in writing seven days before the date
of such meeting.
BYE-LAWS - 1. The Clubhouse shall not be open before 9 o’clock
in the morning and shall be closed not later than half past eleven at night. The Committee shall
have the power to extend the hours on special occasions for carrying out unfinished bonspiels or matches or for such other
purpose as the Committee may deem necessary.
- 2. The Club
will take no responsibility for any article taken into or left in the premises.
- 3.
All complaints shall be made in writing to the Secretary for the consideration of the Committee and the conduct of
a servant shall in no instance be made the matter of personal reprimand.
- 4.
No expenses incurred in the Club premises shall be paid for by the visitors, they shall only be liable for the charges
for the use of the ice in the event of their taking part in any game.
- 5. Members
are responsible for the decorum of their guests and will be held responsible for any breech of decorum.
- 6. Dogs are not permitted in the Club premises.
- 7.
The foregoing bye-laws may be altered by the Committee of Management from time to time, due notice of such alteration
being given to the members of the Club.
- 8. No person shall be introduced
as a guest on more than six occasions in any one year.
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