Club Rules

1. The name of the Club shall be The Craven Motor Club

2. The objects of the Club shall be:

a) The association in a social club of persons connected with and interested in motoring, motor car racing, motor rallying and all other motor sports.

b) To assist and co-operate with Craven Motor Club Limited (the Company) in any activities, projects or events that the Company may organise or promote in accordance with its Memorandum and Articles of Association.

3. ADMISSION OF MEMBERS

Every candidate for membership shall be proposed and seconded by members of the Club. His full name and address and occupation and the names of the proposer and seconder shall be communicated in writing to the Secretary. Until the candidate is elected as a member, he shall not be entitled to any of the privileges of the Club.

4. ELECTION

Candidates for membership shall be elected by the committee at its sole discretion.

5. MANAGEMENT

The management of the Club shall be entrusted to a committee consisting of the Chairman, Vice Chairman, Treasurer, Competition Secretary and Membership Secretary, (the Executive Committee) and up to eight other members of the Club elected at each Annual General Meeting. The committee shall meet once a month and at such other times as the committee shall determine. Meetings shall consist of 6 to form a quorum, not counting the member in the chair who shall use his vote as a casting vote.

6. The committee shall have the power at any time and from time to time to fill any casual vacancy among the officers and committee. Any officer or member of the committee so appointed shall hold office only until the next following Annual General Meeting but shall be then eligible for re-election.

7. Every member shall also be entitled to be a member of the Company and shall hold the beneficial interest in one ordinary share of the Company which shall be held on trust for the member by the trustees (the Trustees) who shall be not less than three and not more than seven in number and who shall be the members for the time being of the Executive Committee of the Club.

8. The Trustees shall act jointly as trustees of all shares vested in them and shall exercise the voting rights of those shares vested in them as directed by the members of the Club by resolution in a general meeting.

9. If any member shall cease to be a member of the Club for any reason, he or she shall also cease to be a person entitled to the beneficial interest in the shares of the Company held on trust by the executive committee pursuant to Clauses 7 and 8 above.

10. No money or property of the Club or any gain arising from the carrying on of the Club shall be applied otherwise than for the benefit of the Club or the Company or purposes chosen by resolution of a general meeting.

11. An Annual General Meeting of the Club shall be held in each calendar year and fifteen months shall not elapse without a general meeting. At the Annual General Meeting the following business shall be conducted:

a) The presentation and, if accepted, the passing of a resolution authorising the Trustees to approve the accounts of the Company of the previous financial year.

b) The election of the officers and committee (and Trustees)

c) Such other business as shall have been communicated to the secretary and included in the notice of the meeting posted by him on the Club notice board and published by Craven Motor Club Limited.

12. An extraordinary general meeting may also be convened at any time by the committee and shall be so convened within twenty-one days of the committee receiving a request signed by one-fifth of the members of the club for the time being or thirty embers whichever is less. Such request must state the purpose for which the meeting is required,

13. The secretary shall at least fourteen days before the general meeting place a notice of the meeting stating the time and when and the place where it will be held and the business to be conducted on the Club notice board. The period of fourteen days may be abridged at the discretion of the committee if the urgency of the business to be discussed in their opinion so requires.

14. The business at a general meeting shall be limited to that provided by these rules and to those further matters set out in the notice convening the meeting.

15. At all meetings of the Club each member shall have one vote.

16. The chairman of the Club shall preside at all meetings of the Club, but if he shall not be present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for the meeting or had signified his inability to be present at the meeting, the member of the committee present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.

17. No alterations or addition to these rules shall be made except by a resolution carried by a majority of at least two thirds of the members present at a general meeting the notice of which shall have contained particulars of the proposed alteration or addition.