Rule II Election Of Life And Ordinary Members

ELECTION OF LIFE MEMBERS

  1. A member nominated by the Committee in consideration of special services rendered to the Club, if his nomination is approved by members at the Annual General Meeting next after such nomination, will be deemed duly elected a Life Member.  Life Members are entitled to all the rights and privileges of Ordinary Members and are exempt from payment of any portion of the annual subscription and calls.

RESIDENTIAL REQUIREMENT FOR NOMINATION OF ORDINARY MEMBERS

  1. A gentleman is eligible for nomination as an Ordinary Member if he is ordinarily resident in Western Australia.

NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF ORDINARY MEMBERS

  1. (a)     Every candidate for election as an Ordinary Member will be proposed by a Life or Ordinary Member of at least seven years standing, and his nomination is to be seconded by a Life or Ordinary Member of at least five years standing.  The nomination will also be supported by at least six referees, being Life, Ordinary or Supernumerary Members of at least two years standing. Otherwise the procedure to be followed in nominating a candidate for election as an Ordinary Member will be determined by the Committee from time to time and published in the By-Laws.
    (b)        Ordinary Members are elected by the general body of Life and Ordinary Members by ballot as provided in these Rules.

 

BALLOT:  MODE OF VOTING AND CALCULATION OF RESULT.

TIME BALLOT TO BE TAKEN

  1. Ballots for membership will be taken on dates determined by the Committee being the third Thursday of a month and will remain open from 9.00 a.m. on that day until 2.00 p.m. on the following day, when the poll will close.

SECRETARY TO ARRANGE BALLOT

  1. (a)         The ballot-box shall be in the charge of the Secretary or his delegate. Ballot papers initialled by the Secretary or his delegate will be provided to Life and Ordinary Members attending in person and who have not already voted in that ballot.
    (b)         The Secretary or his delegate will record the name of each Life or Ordinary Member to whom a ballot paper is provided.

 

 

MINIMUM VOTE REQUIREMENT

  1. No ballot in respect of a candidate will be valid and effective unless thirty Life or Ordinary Members vote, in a manner allowed by these Rules, either for or against that candidate.

MAILING OF BALLOT PAPERS

  1. The Secretary will, on the date he causes a notice of nomination approved by the Committee to be displayed in the Club House, post or cause to be posted to every Life Member and every Ordinary Member not being a Metropolitan Member, a ballot paper containing voting instructions, the full name of each candidate, his occupation and address and the names of his proposer and seconder, together with an envelope (the ballot paper envelope) on which is endorsed:

 

No. …………. BALLOT PAPER

 

                        FOR ………………………………………………. 20…….

 

                        MEMBER’S SIGNATURE ………………………………..

 

RECORDING OF ABSENT VOTE

  1. A Life or Ordinary Member desiring to vote under Sub-Rule 7 of this Rule may record his vote on the ballot paper in accordance with the voting instructions and return his ballot paper, having first placed it in the ballot paper envelope duly fastened or sealed, in another envelope addressed to the Secretary. A completed ballot paper not in the hands of the Secretary by the time of the close of the poll as provided in Sub-Rule 4 of this Rule will be excluded from the ballot.

MEMBERS UNABLE TO ATTEND BALLOT

  1. A Life or Ordinary Member who for any reason is or expects to be unable to attend on the days of the ballot to record his vote may at any time after a candidate has been proposed for election personally obtain from the Secretary or his delegate a ballot paper, and the same procedure as to voting as hereinbefore provided with regard to non Metropolitan Members shall be followed.

SECRETARY TO KEEP REGISTER

  1. The Secretary shall keep a register of all ballot papers issued before the ballot day and the number against the member’s name on the register must correspond with the number placed on the member’s ballot paper envelope.

BALLOT BOX

  1. On receipt of a ballot paper from a member recording his vote under Sub-Rule 7 of this Rule the Secretary shall place the ballot paper envelope in the ballot box.

RESULT OF BALLOT

  1. At the close of the poll the Secretary or the Committee’s representative shall appoint 2 scrutineers, in whose presence the ballot box shall be opened, and the result of the ballot determined in the following manner – if the number of votes required under Sub-Rule 6 of this Rule have been cast there shall be deducted from the number of positive votes ten votes for each negative vote and if there remains at least one positive vote the candidate is elected.  The report of the scrutineers shall be conclusive.

NOTICE OF ADMISSION

  1. The Secretary shall notify in writing each new member of his admission to the Club, and shall furnish him with a copy of the Rules and By-Laws and details of the amount of the subscription and fees he is called upon to pay.

ADMISSION OF NEW MEMBERS

    On the payment of the amount referred to in Sub-Rule 13 of this Rule the name of the new member shall be enrolled in the register referred to in Sub-Rule 6 of Rule XII according to his membership classification and thereupon he shall be entitled to the privileges of membership and be bound by these Rules.