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RUGBY
42I
General
43• All Constituent Bodies and clubs (colleges and schools
excepted) having a gross annual income of £Ioo shall each year
before
October 1st
send, through the Constituent Body to the
Secretary of the Union, a balance sheet, together with a statement
of accounts showing receipts and expenditure, properly audited ;
and where a Constituent Body or club has a gross annual income of
£300, such balance sheet shall be audited by a Chartered or In-
corporated Accountant.
44• There shall be an annual close time between the
third
Saturday in April and September 1st.
During this period the
playing of Rugby Football, in the British Isles, by clubs under the
jurisdiction of the Union is forbidden when gate money or a collec-
tion is taken. The Committee, however, shall have power to give
permission for a match, the proceeds of which are to be entirely
devoted to an organised charity. Application to play shall be sent
through the Constituent Body concerned, which shall add its con-
sidered and minuted recommendation thereon.
N
OTE.
—If the Tuesday in Easter Week
fall
later than the third
Saturday in April, the close season shall commence on the Wednesday
in Easter Week.
45• No club or player shall knowingly play in any match with
any suspended or expelled club or player, or in any fixture with a
club which has been formed by members of one suspended or
expelled by this Union.
46. No member of the Committee of the Union, and unless
engaged solely in the profession of journalism, no Committeeman
of any Constituent Body or Club under the jurisdiction of the
Union, or referee or player, shall write, give information or inter-
view for the Press, or broadcast on current Rugby Football for
remuneration.
47. Any difference of opinion which may arise as to the meaning
of any of these Bye-laws shall be decided by the Committee, unless
it occur at a General Meeting, when the decision shall be made
by the Chairman thereof. Any such decision shall be recorded in
the minutes and. shall be accepted as the true meaning of the
Bye-law until otherwise interpreted at a General Meeting, due
notice having been given.