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RUGBY
BYE-LAWS OF THE RUGBY FOOTBALL
UNION
Name and Constitution
1.
The name shall be
The Rugby Football Union
—hereinafter
called "the Union." The object of the Union shall be the
furtherance of the interests of Rugby Union Football. The head-
quarters shall be at Twickenham.
z. Only clubs (which shall include Unions) within the British
Commonwealth of Nations playing Rugby Football and willing to
conform to these Bye-laws, the Laws of the Game and the Rules
as to Professionalism as adopted by the Union, shall be eligible for
membership.
3. The affairs of the Union shall be controlled by the Rugby
Football Union Committee—hereinafter referred to as " the
Committee."
4. To facilitate administration of the said Bye-laws, Laws of the
Game and Rules as to Professionalism, and to secure representation
of clubs in membership with the Union on the Committee, each
club shall be allocated to a recognised Constituent Body (see
Bye-laW 24).
5. The Officers of the Union shall be a President, two Vice-
Presidents and an Hon. Treasurer. If considered advisable, an
Hon. Secretary may be added at the discretion of the Committee.
6. The Union shall be in membership with the International
Rugby Football Board, which is composed of ten representatives
from the four Home Unions ; the four representatives of the Union
on the Board shall be elected annually by the Committee from its
members.
Membership
7. Any club desiring election shall be proposed and seconded by
two clubs already in membership with the Union. The application
shall be forwarded to- 'the Union through the Constituent Body
concerned (see Bye-law
24),
which shall add its considered and
minuted recommendation thereon. Such application, made on an
official form obtainable from the Secretary of the Union, and
accompanied by a list of fixtures for the previous season, shall
reach the Secretary of the Union before
June 1st
in order to
render the applicant eligible for membership for the ensuing
season.
8. The annual subscription of each club shall be C1
1s.
od., and
shall fall due on
September 1st.
Any club whose annual sub-
scription shall not have been paid by
November 1
st shall be liable
to suspension of its privileges as a member of the Union.
9. Each club shall be furnished annually with a copy of the
Bye-laws, the Laws of the Game and the Rules as to Professionalism,
and be bound thereby.