IBM Hursley Cricket Club

IBM Hursley Cricket Club (IHCC)

Constitution

  1. The club shall be called the 'IBM Hursley Cricket Club', hereinafter referred to as ‘IHCC’.
  2. The IHCC shall consist of 2 sections, a Senior and a Colts, with each having its own financial and operating procedures, and both being governed by the articles in this Constitution."
  3. All IHCC members shall be members of the IBM Hursley Club (of which the IHCC shall form part), and shall have paid any subscriptions under article 11.
  4. The IHCC shall be controlled by a committee consisting of 4 officers, viz. the Chairman, the Club Captain, the Secretary, and the Treasurer, plus 5 additional members. The committee shall consist of not more than nine, and not less than five, and four shall form a quorum. The committee shall appoint additional captains, plus roles and responsibilities as required.
  5. All officers and members of the committee shall be elected by the members of the IHCC at the Annual General Meeting. They shall hold office until the next Annual General Meeting when their period of office will automatically terminate, but they may stand for re-election if they so wish.
  6. The committee may co-opt additional members if required, but such members shall not be entitled to vote on formal proposals.
  7. The committee shall call a general meeting of the IHCC, to be called 'The Annual General Meeting' not later than the 31st October each year. Fourteen days clear notice must be given, and the notice must include full and sufficient detail of any special matter to be considered at the Annual General Meeting. The quorum at any general meeting shall be eight members.
  8. The posting of a ‘suitable notice’ (including electronic) shall be considered to be adequate notice to all members of an Annual General Meeting or Extraordinary General Meeting.
  9. Nomination of candidates for election as officers or committee members should be given in writing to the secretary at least seven days before the date of the Annual General Meeting, but the chairman may admit nominations up to the time of voting.
  10. An Extraordinary General Meeting may be requested by the written application to the Secretary by any nine members of the club. The application must state the reason for the general meeting so requested. The secretary, upon receipt of such a written application, shall forthwith post fourteen days notice of the general meeting, stating the reason or reasons given by the requesters. The meeting shall be limited solely to the business posted.
  11. Subscriptions and match fees in respect of the following season shall be decided at the Annual General Meeting.
  12. The committee in office will establish working guidelines for committee business as considered appropriate.
  13. The IHCC shall ensure a duty of care to all members of the club by adopting and implementing the ECB Cricket Equity Policy, the ECB ‘Safe Hands – Cricket’s Policy for Safeguarding Children’, and any future versions of the said policies.
  14. Amendments to the Constitution may be made at general meetings only, and by consent of a majority of the members present. Any proposal involving an alteration must be included in the notice of the general meeting at which the matter is to be resolved.

Original signed and held by the IHCC Secretary.

NOTE:

Original ‘rules’ Adopted by the First Annual General Meeting on 19th September 1962: and amended by:

  • the Third Annual General Meeting on 14th October 1964,
  • the Fourth Annual General Meeting on 13th October 1965,
  • the Nineteenth Annual General Meeting on 27th October 1980,
  • the Forty Eighth Annual General Meeting on 2nd November 2009,
  • the Forty Ninth Annual General Meeting on 22nd November 2010.
  • the Fiftieth Annual General Meeting on 31st November 2011