2. The objects of the Association are as follows:-
a. To promote social activities amongst Greyhound Owners and their friends.
b. To provide facilities for advice and judicial representation.
c. To maintain a good relationship between Owners and Track Managers.
d. To promote the welfare of racing greyhounds and to help and support the homing organisation at it's request.
3. The Association shall be managed by a Committee of Members and shall consist of the following:- Chairman and Vice-Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer and not less than four other members, with a maximum of ten members.
The Committee shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting; and subject to termination of office by resignation or otherwise, shall remain in office until their successors are appointed at the Annual General Meeting next following their appointment. The Committee shall have power to fill any vacancy that may occur and may co-opt, if they think fit, up to two members over and above the maximum allowed. The Committee shall have power to create sub-committees and co-opt ad hoc members of the Association at large. The retiring Officers and Members of the Committee shall be eligable for re-election.
4. The election of Officials shall be carried out at the Annual General Meeting. All nominations for election of Committee Members must be proposed and seconded in writing and handed to the secretary at least 21 days prior to the Annual General Meeting. Nominations shall be restricted to paid-up members of the Association. All elected Committee Members will be considered honorary full members.
5. a. The Association shall be open to greyhound owners and others subject to the approval of the Committee on the payment of an annual subscription, the value of which sahll be fixed for the ensuing year and agreed at the Annual General Meeting. Should a greyhound be jointly owned all joint owners can be members of the Association upon payment of the annual subscription.
b. The Committee may, at their discretion, accept application for membership from any individual who, it feels, will contribute to the good of the Association and may also create honorary life members at their discretion.
6. a. Subscription shall be due on 1st September, and the Annual General Meeting shall be convened before the end of September.
b. Subscription shall be £15 per person. Dogs with two or more registered owners - at least two owners need to be members of the Association to receive tangible benefits, i.e. trophies and prize monies. Named syndicates - £30 fee.
7. A Special General Meeting may be convened at any time by the Committee and shall be convened within twenty-one days from the receipt of the requisition in writing signed by not less than fifteen members specifying the object of the meeting for any of the following purposes:
a. To receive and, if approved, to adopt a statement of the Association's accounts to the end of the preceding year.
b. To consider and, if approved, sanction and duly made alteration of the rules.
c. To deal with any special matter which the Committee may desire to place before the members including the expulsion of a member.
d. To receive the resignation of the Committee or to remove any members thereof from office and to fill vacancies thereby.
e. To deal with any special matter which the members requiring the meeting may desire to place before the Association.
Notice convening a special meeting shall be sent to the members not less than seven days before the meeting and shall specify the matters to be dealt with.
8. The Committee shall have power to expel any members who shall offend against the rules of the Association or whose conduct shall in the opinion of the Committee render him unfit for membership of the Association, but for the purpose of this rule the vote of not less than two-thirds of the whole of the Committee shall be necessary. Upon the termination of membership under this rule, the subscription paid for the current year will be forfeited.
9. The Committee shall have power to alter the rules, but no such alteration shall take effect until the same has been confirmed at the Annual General Meeting or a special General Meeting convened for the purpose.
10.The Committee shall have power to make bye-laws for regulating the conduct and affairs of the Association, provided the same are not inconsistent with these rules. Such bye-laws shall be brought to the notice of and shall be binding on all the members.
11.At Committee meetings and at General Meetings the Chairman or Vice-Chairman or in their absence a member selected by the meeting shall preside, and he shall have casting or additional vote in the event of an equality of vote.
12.At Committee meetings four shall form a quorum. At General Meetings, eleven shall form a quorum.
13.Any proposed amendment to the Rules shall be forwarded in writing to the Secretary together with the names of the proposer and seconder, not less than twenty-one days before the date of the Annual General Meeting.
14.Auditors are to be appointed at the Annual General Meeting.