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RUGBY.
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6. The Annual General Meeting shall be held before the end of
July in each year. Each club within the Union shall be entitled
to send one representative to such meeting exclusive of the
Committee, who shall ex-officio be entitled to vote at all General
Meetings.
7. The Committee shall manage the affairs of the Union, and
have full power and uncontrolled authorities over the use, disposi-
tion and investment of all funds, and shall execute" all powers
and functions not exclusively conferred upon General Meetings
or specified in the Bye-Laws. Five shall form a quorum. The
Chairman shall have a casting vote in addition to his first vote.
S. Any vacancy occurring on the Committee during the year
shall be filled by the Committee from nominations sent in by the
Command or District concerned.
9. The Captain of the Army team shall be ex-officio a member
of the Committee, but shall have no vote except in the selection
of the team.
10. The Army Challenge Cup shall be the property of the Union,
and the Competition shall be regulated by such rules as the
General Meeting of members shall see fit to make, but the
Committee shall have the power to alter such rules provided that
in the opinion of the Chairman such alteration is of sufficient
urgency to warrant immediate action being taken; any alteration
made in this manner will require confirmation at the next Annual
General Meeting.
11. The Honorary Secretary of the Union shall convene a Special
General Meeting at any time by order of the Committee or on
receiving a requisition to that effect signed by the Secretaries, and
with the authority of the Committees, of not less than seven clubs
belonging to the Union, specifying the objects for which such
special General Meeting shall be called.
12. No Bye-Laws shall be added, altered or rescinded without
the consent of at least two-thirds of the members present at a
General Meeting.
13. Notice of any amendment or alteration of the Bye-Laws,
together with the name of the Command whose representative
will propose such amendment or alteration, shall be given in
writing to the Hon. Secretary at least three weeks before the
General Meeting at which amendment or alteration is to be brought
forward, and all proposed amendments or alterations shall be
duly notified to command, etc., representatives at least fifteen days
previous to the General Meeting. It shall then be open to any club
to forward notice of amendment to any amendment or alteration
thus advertised, and to no other. Such notice to be given at least
ten days before the General Meeting and duly notified to com-
mand, etc., representatives at least seven days before the General
Meeting.
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