Glenorchy District Football Club

(1) In these rules, unless the contrary intention appears – “Board of Management” means the Board of Management of the Association, “General Meeting” means a general meeting of members convened in accordance with Rule 13.

(2) In these rules, expressions referring to writing shall, unless the contrary intentions appears, be construed as including references to printing, lithography, photography and other modes of representing or reproducing words in a visible form. Where in this document reference is made to the member, him, he, her, his, this should be taken as gender neutral, and shall be in all instances the member.

(3) Words or expressions contained in these rules shall be interpreted in accordance with the provisions of the Acts Interpretation Act 1931 and the Act in force on the date on which these rules are adopted by the Association.

Rule 3

The office of the Association shall be at 1 Anfield Street Glenorchy, in Tasmania , or at such other place as the Board of Management may from time to time determine.

Rule 3A

The competitive colours of the Club shall be black and white or such colours as may be determined at a duly convened meeting of the Association subject to the approval of Football Tasmania Limited.

Rule 4

The basic objects and purposes of the Association are:

(1) As a Community Sporting Club, to promote encourage and to form and sponsor teams to play the Australian game of football

(2) To affiliate with and participate in Senior and Junior football rosters as may be arranged by the Football Tasmania Limited.

(3) To invest the monies of the Club not immediately required for the carrying on of the affairs of the Association.

(4) To hold and operate Gaming Licenses for the benefit of the members of the Association, in accordance with the Gaming Control Act 1993 as amended. The operation of the licenses held by the Association directly, or in Trust, may be by way of contract.

(5) To acquire by purchase lease or otherwise land and/or buildings suitable for the purpose of establishing Clubrooms and to provide therein accommodation for the members and their guests.

(6) To provide and maintain the Club rooms from the funds of the Association.

(7) To borrow, raise money, or enter into contracts which the Board of Directors may deem necessary in the interests of the Association.

(8) To support, encourage and participate in other community sporting activities.

(9) To provide and maintain rubbing down tables, physiotherapy equipment, hot and cold showers and facilities for physical exercises and training in premises of the Association located on the King George V Oval at Glenorchy or elsewhere as determined by the Board.

(10) The Board of Management is required to do all things necessary within the Corporations Law, to maintain the tax free status of the Association.

Rule 4A

In addition to the basic objects of the Association the objects and purposes of the Association shall be deemed to include:

(a) The purchase, taking on lease or in exchange and the hiring or otherwise acquiring of any real or personal property that may be deemed necessary or convenient for any of the objects of purposes of the Association.

(b) The buying, selling and supplying of and dealing in goods of all kinds.

(c) The construction, maintenance and alteration of buildings or works necessary or convenient for any of the objects or purposes of the Association.

(d) The accepting of any gift whether subject to a special trust or not, for any one or more of the objects of purposes of the Association.

(e) The taking of such steps from time to time as the Board of Management or the members in general meeting may deem expedient for the procuring of contributions to the funds of the Association whether by way of donations, subscriptions or otherwise.

(f) The printing and publishing of such newspapers, periodicals, books, leaflets or other documents as the Board of Management or the members in general meeting may think desirable for the promotion of the objects and purposes of the Association.

(g) The borrowing and raising of money in such manner and on such terms as the Board of Management may think fit, or as may be directed by resolution passed at a general meeting

(h) Subject to the provisions of the Trustee Act 1898, the investment of any moneys of the Association not immediately required for any of its objects or purposes in such manner as the Board of Management may from time to time determine.

(i) The making of gifts, subscriptions or donations to any of the funds, authorities or institutions to which paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 78 of the Income Tax and Social Services Contribution Assessment Act 1936 - 1964 of the Commonwealth relates.

(j) The establishment and support or aiding in the establishment and support of associations, institutions, funds, trusts, schemes and conveniences calculated to benefit servants or past servants of the Association and their dependantsand the granting of pensions, allowances or other benefits to servants or past servants of the Association and their dependants and the making of payments towards insurance in relation to any of these purposes.

(k) The establishment and support or aiding in the establishment or support of any other association formed for any of the basic objects of the Association.

(l) The purchase or acquisition and undertaking of all or any part of the property, assets, liabilities and engagements of any association with which the Association may at any time become amalgamated in accordance with the provisions of the Act and the rules of the Association, and

(m) The doing of all such other lawful things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the basic objects and purposes specified in the foregoing provisions of this sub-rule.

Rule 5

(1) A nomination paper (to be known as an Application for Membership) in the prescribed form shall be signed by two (2) full members of the Association and the proposed member shall thereupon sign on the form consent to their nomination, and such completed nomination shall be lodged with the Public Officer of the Association or his nominee.

(2) The nomination shall be considered by the Board of Management or its delegate, when accompanied by the prescribed membership fee, and thereafter if approved, the nominated person shall be a member of the Association.

(3) Members may object to the nomination of a member of the association and must advise the Board in writing of their reasons. The acceptance or not of the nomination lies solely with the Board of management regardless of the right of objection and their decision shall be final.

(4) The Public Officer or his/her nominee shall notify the member in writing of their approved membership following the decision of the Board of Management and shall advise a member who meets the criteria of full voting rights, that a copy of the Constitution, rules and bylaws is available for collection by the member from the registered office of the Association.

(5) The payment of the first membership fee shall signify that the member agrees to be bound by all of the Constitution, rules and bylaws of the Association, and upon payment of the membership fee the Secretary or nominee shall enter the member’s name into the Register of Members of the Association.

(6) A member of the Association may at any time, resign from the Association by delivering or sending by post to the Public Officer a written notice of resignation. Upon receipt of such resignation the Public Officer shall remove the name of the member from the Register of Members, whereupon the member ceases to be a member of the Association.

(7) The membership of the Association or of any category of membership shall not exceed that approved by the Licensing Board.

(8) In the event of the Association being wound up -

(a) Every member of the Association; and

(b) Every person who within the period of twelve (12) months immediately preceding the commencement of the winding up was a member of the Association;

is liable to contribute to the assets of the Association for payment of the debts or liabilities of the Association and for the costs charges and expenses of the winding up and for the adjustment of the rights of the contributories among themselves such sum not exceeding one year's annual subscription as may be required but a former member is not liable so to contribute in respect of any debt or liability of the Association after he or she ceased to be a member.

(9) The requirements of sub-rule (8) shall not apply to duly appointed life members.

Rule 6

(1) The income and property of the Association however derived shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the objects and purposes of the Association, and no portion thereto shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly by dividend, bonus or otherwise to any member of the Association except where the Board of Management has approved the provision of goods or services by a member on normal commercial terms. The Board may remunerate employees of the Association by way of salary and incentive payments based upon results.

(2) The Association shall not appoint a person who is a member of the Board of Management to any office in the gift of the Association to the holder of which there is payable any remuneration by w ay of salary, fees or allowances.

(3) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this rule prevents the payment in good faith to a servant or member of the Association of

(a) Remuneration in return for services actually rendered to the Association by the servant or member or for goods supplied to the Association by the servant or member in the ordinary course of business;

(b) Interest at a rate not exceeding current bank interest rate on monies lent to the Associationby the servant or member; or

Rule 7

(1) True accounts shall be kept in accordance with the Australian Accounting Standards as published by the Australian Society of Accountants in respect of

(a) All sums of money received and expended by the Association and the matter in respect of which the receipt or expenditure takes place; and

(b) The property, credits and liabilities of the Association and subject to any reasonable restrictions as to time and manner of inspecting them that may be imposed by the Association for the time being those accounts shall be open to the inspection of members of the Association.

(2) The Treasurer of the Association shall faithfully keep all general records, accounting books and records of receipts and expenditure connected with the operations and business of the Association in such form as to comply with the Australian Accounting Standards published by the Australian Society of Accountants.

(3) The accounts books and records referred to in sub-rule (1) and (2) of this rule shall be kept at the Association's office or at such other place as the Board of Management may decide.

Rule 8

(1) The Treasurer or his or her Nominee of the Association shall on behalf of the Association receive all monies paid to the Association and forthwith after the receipt thereof issue official receipts therefore.

(2) The Board of Management shall cause to be opened with such bank as the Board of Management selects a banking account in the name of the Association into which all monies received shall be paid by the Treasurer as soon as possible after the receipt thereof

(3) The Board of Management may receive from the Association's bank or bankers for the time being the cheques drawn by the Association on any of its accounts with the bank or bankers and may release and indemnify the bank or bankers from and against all claims, actions, suits or demands that may be brought against the bank or bankers arising directly or indirectly out of those cheques or the surrender thereof to the Association.

(4) Except with the authority of the Board of Management no payment of a sum exceeding One hundred dollars ($100.00) shall be made from the funds of the Association otherwise than by cheque drawn on the Association's bank account, but the Board of Management may provide the Treasurer with a sum to meet urgent expenditure subject to the observance of such conditions in relation to the use and expenditure thereof as the Board of Management may impose.

(5) No cheques shall be drawn on the Association's bank account except for the payment of expenditure that has been authorised by the Board of Management.

(6) All cheques, drafts, bills of exchange, promissory notes and other negotiable instruments shall be signed by the Treasurer or by such other member or members of the Board of Management as the Board of Management may nominate for that purpose.

Rule 9

(1) At each general meeting of the Association, the members present shall appoint a person as the auditor of the Association. Such an appointment shall be recommended by the Board of Management to the members, following the calling of tenders for the Audit work of the Association.

(2) A person so appointed shall hold office until the annual general meeting next after that at which he or she is appointed and is eligible for re-appointment.

(3) If an appointment is not made at an annual general meeting the Board of Management shall appoint an auditor of the Association for the then current financial year of the Association.

(4) Except as provided in sub-rule (3) of this rule the auditor may only be removed from office by special resolution.

(5) If a casual vacancy occurs in the office of auditor during the course of a financial year of the Associationthe Board of Management may appoint a person as the auditor and the persons so appointed shall hold office until the next succeeding annual general meeting.

Rule 10

(1) Once at least in each financial year of the Association the accounts of the Association shall be examined by the auditor.

(2) The auditor shall certify as to the correctness of accounts of the Association and shall report thereon to the members present at the annual general meeting.

(3) In his or her report and in certifying to the accounts the auditor shall state:

(a) Whether he or she has obtained the information required by him or her;

(b) Whether in his or her opinion the accounts are properly drawn up to exhibit a true and correct view of the financial position of the Association according to the information at his or her disposal and the explanations given to him or her and as shown by the books of the Association; and

(4) The Treasurer of the Association shall cause to be delivered to the auditor a list of all the accounts books and records of the Association.

(5) The auditor -

(a) Has a right of access to the accounts books, records, vouchers and documents of the Association;

(b) May require from the servants of the Association such information and explanationsas may be necessary for the performance of his or her duties as auditor;

(d) May in relation to the accounts of the Association examine any members of the committee or any servant of the Association.

Rule 11

(1) The Association shall in each year hold an annual general meeting.

(2) The annual general meting shall be held on such day (being not later than three (3) months after the close of the financial year of the Association) as the Board of Management may determine.

(3) The annual general meeting shall be held in addition to any other general meetings that may be held in the same year.

(4) The annual general meeting shall be specified as such in the notice convening it.

(5) The ordinary business of the annual general meeting shall be

(a) To confirm the minutes of the last preceding annual general meeting and of any general meeting held since that meeting.

(b) To receive from the Board of Management, auditor and servants of the Association reports upon the transactions of the Association during the last preceding financial year.

(d) To appoint the auditor.

(6) The annual general meeting may transact special business of which notice is given in accordance with these rules.

(7) All general meetings other than the annual general meeting shall be called special general meetings.

Rule 12

(1) The Board of Management may whenever it thinks fit, convene a special general meeting of the Association.

(2) The Board of Management shall on the requisition in writing of notless than ten (10) per cent of financial members convene a special general meeting of the Association.

(3) A requisition for a special general meeting shall state the objects of the meeting and shall be signed by the requisitionists and deposited at the office of the Association and may consist of several documents in the like form each signed by one or more of the requisitionists.

(4) If the Board of Management does not cause a special general meeting to be held within twenty-one (21) days from the date on which the requisition therefor is deposited at the office of the Association the requisitionists or any of them may convene the meeting but any meeting so convened shall not be held after three (3) months from the date of the deposit of the requisition.

(5) A special general meeting convened by requisitionists in pursuance of these rules shall be convened in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which those meetings are convened by the Board of Management and all reasonable expenses incurred in convening the meeting shall be refunded by the Association to the persons incurring them.

Rule 13

The public officer of the Association shall at least fourteen (14) days before the date fixed for holding a general meeting of the Association cause to be inserted in at least one (1) newspaper published in this State an advertisement specifying the place day and time for the holding of the meeting and the nature of the business to be transacted thereat.

Rule 14

(1) All business that is transacted at special general meetings and all business that is transacted at the annual general meeting with the exception of that specially referred to in these rules as being ordinary business of the annual general meeting shall be deemed to be special business.

(2) No item of business shall be transacted at a general meeting unless a quorum of members entitled under these rules to vote is present during the time when the meeting is considering that item.

(3) Ten (10) per cent or fifty (50) financial members personally present whichever is the lesser (being members entitled under these rules to vote thereat) constitute a quorum for the transaction of business of a general meting.

(4) If within one hour after the appointed time for the commencement of a general meeting a quorum is not present the meeting if convened upon the requisition of members shall be dissolved and in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and (unless another place is specified by the chairman at the time of the adjournment or by written notice to members given before the day to which the meeting is adjourned) at the same place and if at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within one hour after the time appointed for the commencement of the meeting the meeting shall be dissolved.

Rule 15

(1) The President, or in his or her absence the Chairman, or in the absence of both the President and the Chairman, the Deputy Chairman shall preside as chairman at every general meeting of the Association.

(2) If the President and Chairman and Deputy Chairman are absent from a general meeting the members present shall elect one out of their number to preside as chairman thereat.

Rule 16

(1) The chairman of a general meeting at which a quorum is present may with the consent of the meeting adjourn the meeting from time to time and place to place but no business shall be transacted at an adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting at which the adjournment took place.

(2) Where a meeting is adjourned for fourteen (14) days or more the like notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of the original meeting.

(3) Except as provided in the foregoing provisions of this rule it is not necessary to give notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting.

Rule 17

A question arising at a general meeting of the Association shall be determined on a show of hands and unless before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands a poll is demanded a declaration by the chairman that a resolution has on a show of hands been carried or carried unanimously or carried by a particular majority or lost and an entry to the effect in the minute book of the Association is evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes in the favour of or against the resolution.

Rule 18

(1) Upon any question arising at a general meeting of the Association a member has only one vote.

(2) All votes shall be given personally.

(3) In the case of an equality of voting on a question the chairman of the meeting is entitled to exercise a second or casting vote.

Rule 19

If at a meeting a poll on any question is demanded it shall be taken at that meeting in such manner as the chairman may direct and the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting on that question.

Rule 20

A poll that is demanded on the election of chairman or on a question of adjournment shall be taken forthwith and a poll that is demanded on any other question shall be taken at such time before the close of the meeting as the chairman may direct.

Rule 21

(1) The affairs of the Association shall be managed by the Board of Management constituted as provided in these Rules.

(2) The Board of Management

(a) Shall direct control and manage all of the business and affairs of the Association;

(b) May subject to these rules exercise all such powers and functions as may be exercised by the Association other than those powers and functions that are required by these rules to be exercised by general meetings of members of the Association; and

(c) Subject to the Act and these Rules has power to perform all such acts and things as appear to the Board of Management to be essential for the proper management of the business and affairs of the Association.

Rule 22

(1) The officers of the Association that shall comprise the Board of Management of the Association shall be

(a) a President

(b) Secretary/Public Officer - in accordance with Rule 22 (11)

(d) Eight (8) elected members who will be called Directors.

(2) All persons nominating for election to the Executive of the Board of Management shall be persons who are able to undergo security checking and clearance to enable them to be approved by the Gaming Commission as “Associates” for the purposes of the Gaming Control Act 1993 as amended. Each member nominating shall declare to the Public Officer of the Association that they know of no impediment to their proposed election under this rule.

(3) Four (4) Directors will retire annually but are eligible for re-election.

(4) In the event of a casual vacancy in any office mentioned in sub-rule (1) of this rule, the Board of Management may appoint one (1) of its members to the vacant office and the member so appointed may continue in office up to and including the annual general meeting next following the dateof his or her appointment.

(5) The Board of Management may appoint a person or a Corporation to be responsible to the Board for the conduct of the business activities of the Association, and the position shall be known as General Manager.

(a) The position of Club General Manager shall be filled after being advertised by the Board of Management.

(b) The Club General Manager shall receive such remuneration as the Board of Management may from time to time determine, by contract.

(i) Dies;

(ii) Resigns his or her office by writing under his or her hand;

(iii) Is removed from office by the Board of Management; or

(iv) The Contract of Employment expires

(d) The Club General Manager or an officer of the Association shall be the licensee of the Association.

(6) The members of the Association may elect a member to be Treasurer of the Association who will be responsible for the matters mentioned in Rule (7) and (8) of these rules and such other matters as the Board of Management may determine.

(7) The provisions of sub-rule 10 of Rule 24 as far as applicable and with necessary modifications apply to the election of a member to be Treasurer of the Association.

(8) The member elected to the office of Treasurer shall hold office until the annual general meeting next after that at which he or she is elected.

(9) The Treasurer will hold office until he or she:

(i) Dies;

(ii) Resigns his or her office by writing under his or her hand addressed to the Board of Management; or

(iii) Is removed from office by the Board of Management

(10) In the event of a casual vacancy occurring in the office of Treasurer, the Board of Management may appoint a member of the Association to fill the vacancy and the member so appointed shall hold office subject to these rules until the conclusion of the annual general meeting next following the date of his or her appointment.

(11) (a) The members of the Association may elect a member to be Secretary/Public Officer.

(b) The provisions of sub-rule 10 of Rule 24 as far as applicable and with necessary modifications apply to the election of a member to be Secretary/Public Officer of the Association.

(c) The member elected to the office of Secretary/Public Officer shall hold office until the annual general meeting next after that at which he or she is elected.

(d) The Secretary/Public Officer will hold office until he or she:

(i) Dies;

(ii) Resigns his or her office by writing under his or her hand addressed to the Board of Management; or

(iii) Is removed from office by the Board of Management

(e) In the event of a casual vacancy occurring in the office of Secretary/Public Officer, the Board of Management may appoint a member of the Association to fill the vacancy and the member so appointed shall hold office subject to these rules until the conclusion of the annual general meeting next following the dateof his or her appointment.

(12) The Board of Management may appoint a person to be honorary Assistant Secretary. The honorary Assistant Secretary shall take minutes of Board of Management meetings and assist the Secretary/Public Officer as required.

Rule 23

(1) For the purposes of these rules the office of an officer of the Association becomes vacant if the officer:

(a) Dies;

(b) Becomes bankrupt or applies to take or takes advantage of any law relating to bankrupt or insolvent debtors or compounds with his or her creditors or makes an assignment of his or her estate for their benefit;

(d) Resigns his or her office by writing under his or her hand addressed to the Board of Management;

(e) Ceases to be a resident in the State;

(f) Fails without leave granted by the Board of Management to attend three (3) consecutive meetings of the Board of Management;

(g) Ceases to be a member of the Association; or

(h) Fails to pay all arrears of subscription due by him or her within fourteen (14) days after receiving a notice in writing signed by the Public Officer that he or she has ceased to be a financial member of the Association.

Rule 24

(1) The Boardof Management shall meet at least once in each month at such place and at such times as the Board of Management may determine.

(2) Special meetings of the Board of Management may be convened by the President or any four (4) of its members.

(3) Notice shall be given to members of the Board of Management of any special meeting specifying the general nature of the business to be transacted and no other business shall be transacted at such a meeting.

(4) Any five (5) members of the Board of Management constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of a meeting of the Board of Management. All decisions made by a quorum of five (5) to be unanimous.

(5) No business shall be transacted unless a quorum is present and if within half an hour of the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same place and at the same hour of the same day in the following week unless the meeting was a special meeting in which case it lapses.

(6) All meetings of the Board of Management shall be chaired by a member of the Board of Management as elected by the Board of Management of each year.

(7) Questions arising at meetings of the Board of Management or of any sub-committee appointed by the Board of Management shall be determined on a show of hands or if demanded by a member by a poll taken in such manner as the person presiding at the meeting may determine.

(8) Each member present at a meeting of the Board of Management or of any Sub committee appointed by the Board of Management (including the person presiding at the meeting) is entitled to one (1) vote and in the event of an equality of votes on any question the person presiding may exercise a second or casting vote.

(9) Notice of the next meeting of the Board of Management shall be given at such Board of Management meeting. Members of the Board of Management absent from the meeting shall be advised of the time of the next meeting by sending of a notice by post in a prepaid letter addressed to him or her at his or her usual or last known place of abode in time to reach him or her in due course of post before the date of the meeting.

ELECTIONS OF MEMBERS OF BOARD OF MANAGEMENT

(10) (a) Nominations of members for election as members of the Board of Management

(i) Shall be made in writing signed by two (2) members of the Association and accompanied by the written consent of the candidate (which may be endorsed on the form of nominations); and

(ii) Shall be delivered to the Public Officer of the Association at least seven (7) days before the date fixed for the holding of the Annual General Meeting.

(b) Further nominations may be taken at the Annual General Meeting with the approval of the members present.

(c) If insufficient nominations are received to fill all vacancies on the Board of Management, the candidates nominated shall be deemed to be elected and further nominations shall be received at the Annual General Meeting

(d) If the number of nominations received is equal to the number of vacancies to be filled the persons nominated shall be deemed to be elected.

(e) If the number of nominations exceeds the number of vacancies to be filled a ballot shall be held.

(f) The ballot for the election of the Board of Management shall be conducted at the Annual General Meeting or in such other usual and proper manner as the Board of Management may direct.

(11) The Board of Management shall appoint up to, but not limited by, 3 or more Directors to any Corporate Body of which the Association has a financial or other interest. Such appointments shall be on the basis of one (1) Director for a term of 3 years, one (1) Director for a term of 2 years and one (1) Director for a term of one year. Each subsequent year there shall be elected a Director for a term on 3 years. Such appointments shall include not less than one (1) member of the Board of Management of the Association at the time of appointment.

Rule 25

(1) A member of the Board of Management who is interested in any contract or arrangement made or proposed to be made with the Association shall disclose his or her interest at the first meeting of the Board of Management at which the contract or arrangement is first taken into consideration if his or her interest then exists or in any other case at the first meeting of the Board of Management after the acquisition of his or her interest.

(2) If a member of the Board of Management becomes interested in a contract or arrangement after it is made or entered into he or she shall disclose his or her interest at the first meeting of the Board of Management after he or she becomes so interested.

(3) No member of the Board of Management shall vote as a member of the Board of Management in respect of any contract or arrangement in which he or she is interested and if he or she does so vote his or her vote shall not be counted.

Rule 26A

(1) The Board of Management may appoint a Patron of the Club.

(2) The Patron will hold office for a term which will be the remainder of the financial year during which he or she is appointed.

(3) The Patron will use his or her best endeavours to promote the interests and objects of the Association by giving active support and encouragement to the Club within the community.

(4) The Patron will hold office until he or she:

(a) Dies;

(b) Resigns from office by writing under his or her hand; or

Rule 26B

(1) The Board of Management may at any time appoint a sub-committee from the Board of Management as it may think fit and shall prescribe the powers and functions thereof.

(2) The Board of Management may co-opt as members of a sub-committee such persons as it thinks fit whether or not those persons are members of the Association but a person so co-opted is not entitled to vote.

(3) Two (2) appointed members of a sub-committee constitute a quorum at a meeting of the sub-committee.

(4) The Chairperson of the appointed sub-committee of the Board of Management of the Association is responsible for calling meetings of a sub-committee.

(5) Written notice of each sub-committee meeting shall be served on each member of the sub-committee by delivering it to him or her at a reasonable time before the meeting or by sending it by post in a prepaid letter addressed to him or her at his or her usual or last known place of abode in time to reach him or her in the due course of post before the date of the meeting or such notice may be given at the meeting immediately preceding the proposed meeting.

Rule 26C

(1) The Board of Management shall be responsible for the appointment of coaching staff.

(2) The Board of Management shall appoint the Captain and the Vice Captain of the respective teams prior to the commencement of the first roster match after consultation with the senior coach.

(3) The Board of Management shall appoint a Selection Committee and Match Committee prior to the commencement of the roster games each season.

(4) The Board of Management may appoint such delegates as are necessary to represent the Association on Football Tasmania Limited or on any other organisation upon which representation is necessary.

(5) (a) The Board of management shall have the power to appoint annually one (1) Honorary Life Member for outstanding services to the Association.

(b) Any player who has played one hundred & fifty (150) games with the Seniors and/or Reserves of the Club shall automatically become a Player Life Member.

(6) The best and fairest trophies shall be decided by the Board of Management in consultation with the match committee. If satisfactory trophies are not donated the Association will provide them.

(7) The Board of Management may make such By-Laws as are necessary for the control and managementof the bar, social rooms and gaming facilities and general activities of the Association.

Rule 27

(1) The Board may determine from time to time fees applicable to membership of the Club.

(2) The Association shall have the following members and they shall have the following membership classes:

(a) Full Members – Full Voting Rights

(b) Concessional Members (in receipt of Pensioner Concession Card or equivalent) – Full Voting Rights

(d) Corporate Members – No Voting Rights

(e) Social Members – No Voting Rights

(f) Junior Members – No Voting Rights

(3) The annual subscription of a member shall become due and payable at the date of approval of the application for membership and annually on 1 January thereafter.

(4) Any member who falls to pay his or her membership subscription within sixty (60) days of the due date shall ipso facto cease to be a member of the Association and shall forfeit all rights and claims to the property of the Association.

(5) Any member who fails to pay his or her membership in accordance with rule 27 (4) may be reinstated as a member of the Association at the discretion of the Board of Management upon payment of the member's arrears of subscription.

(6) The Board of Management in its discretion may remit any proportion of a member's annual subscription as it may think fit.

Rule 28

The financial year of the Association is the period beginning on the 1st November in each year and ending on the 31st October next following.

Rule 29

A notice may be served by or on behalf of the Association upon any member either personally or by sending it throughthe post in a prepaid letter addressed to the member at his or herusual or last known place of abode.

Rule 30

(1) Should it be brought to the notice of the Board of Management that the conduct or action of any member in any class, either in or out of the Association’s premises, appears to it to be, or is likely to be, detrimental to the interests or good name of the Association, or unbecoming of a member of the Association, it shall cause a special meeting of the Board of Management to be called to consider the matter.

(2) Meanwhile the member shall be called upon for an explanation of their conduct and also notified that they may attend the meeting of the Board of Management in person to state their case if they desire. If the member so notified fails to attend the meeting of the Board of Management, the Board of Management may deal with the matter in their absence.

(3) The Executive Committee of the Board of Management shall be empowered to suspend the member whose conduct or action is under review, from the use of the Association’s facilities, pending the consideration by the Board of Management of the explanation from the member called for under this rule.

(4) The Public Officer shall send notification of such suspension to such members or members concerned.

(5) The Board of Management following a review of the facts of the matter, and after the hearing of an explanation from the member whose conduct is under review, shall decide upon the matter, and is empowered to terminate the membership of the member, or suspend for an appropriate period, the membership of the member if on the balance of probabilities it finds that the member’s conduct and actions were unbecoming.

(6) Notification shall be sent to the member by the Public Officer of the decision by the Board of Management, which shall in all cases be final.

Rule 31

(1) Subject to this rule a dispute between a member of the Association in his or her capacity as a member and the Association shall be determined by Arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act 1892.

(2) Nothing in this rule affects the operation of rule 30.

Rule 32

(1) The seal of the Association shall be in the form of a rubber stamp inscribed with the name of the Association encircling the word “seal”.

(2) The seal of the Association shall not be affixed to any instrument except by the authority of the Board of Management and the affixing thereof shall be attested by the signatures either of two (2) members of the Board of Management or of one (1) member of the Board of Management and of the Public Officer of the Association or such other person as the Board of Management may appoint for that purpose and that attestation is sufficient for all purposes that the seal was affixed by authority of the Board of Management.

(3) The seal shall remain in the custody of the Treasurer.

Rule 33

There is deemed to be included in this Constitution and Rules of the club the provisions set out in the Guidelines in respect of Club Licences from time to time published by the Licensing Board in accordance with Section 17 of the Liquor and Accommodation Act 1990.

Rule 34

There is deemed to be included in this Constitution and Rules of the Association the provisions set out in the Gaming Act 1992 for the conduct of Gaming Operations by licensed venues.

Rule 35

(1) Visitors shall only enter, or be invited to enter, the Association’s facilities in accordance with the provisions set out in the Guidelines for Club Licenses from time to time published by the licensing Board in accordance with section 17 of the Liquor and Accommodation Act 1990.

(2) A member introducing a visitor shall be responsible for the conduct of the visitor, and the conduct of the visitor shall be deemed to be the conduct of the member. A visitor shall not remain on the premises without the accompanying member who signed them in.

(3) The Board of Management may suspend or limit the admission of visitors to the Facilities on any occasion or during any hours.

(4) No person who is resident in the City of Glenorchy or who is a person who is eligible to be a member in accordance with this constitution and rules, shall be admitted as a visitor more than three (3) times in a twelve month period. Should such a person wish to continue to use the facilities they must apply for membership in the manner prescribed herein.