Constitution and Rules

Wales Minor Counties Cricket Club.

(a) To play County Cricket.

(b) To be a member of the Cricket Board of Wales, the Minor Counties Cricket Association and such other bodies as the Management Committee shall deem appropriate from time to time.

(c) To be affiliated to the Welsh Cricket Association.

(d) To provide and to receive, if thought fit, administrative and financial help to and from the Cricket Board of Wales and its constituent members and other bodies in whatever manner the Management Committee feels appropriate from time to time.

(a) There will be the following classes of members:

(i) Life. By appointment or a subscription of £100.

(ii) Full. £5.00.

(iii) Husband and Wife. £7.50.

(iv) Senior Citizens. £2.50.

(v) Juniors. (Under 16) £1.00.

(b) The amount of subscriptions for each category of membership shall be fixed annually at the Annual General Meeting and subscriptions shall be due at the beginning of the financial year immediately following the A.G.M.

(c) Hon Life Vice-Presidents and Hon Life Members may be appointed at the Annual General Meeting on the recommendation of the Management Committee as a mark of appreciation for exceptional services rendered to the County Club or as a mark of special recognition.

(d) Membership tickets are not transferable and must be produced when seeking admission to games or meetings.

(e) Admission charges and stand charges may be payable by Members for certain games.

(f) The Management Committee shall have power in its absolute discretion to refuse an application for membership and likewise may terminate the membership of any person whose conduct they may deem contrary to the interests of the County Club or of any body of which the County Club is a member, without refunding any subscription that may have been paid.

Any property of the County Club held for its own account (other than cash in hand and money on current and deposit accounts which are administered by the Hon Treasurer) shall be vested in not less than two Trustees appointed by the County Club in General Meeting who shall hold the same in accordance with the instructions of the Management Committee. Any person so appointed shall hold office until retirement or removed by the County Club in General Meeting. Any Trustee vacating office shall execute and do all things necessary for making over transferring or otherwise dealing with the said property as directed by the Management Committee. A trustee acting in accordance with the instructions of the Management Committee shall be entitled to be indemnified by the County Club and by its assets.

(a) The Financial year shall commence on 1st January each year and end on the following 31st December.

(b) The Treasurer shall ensure proper records are kept of all income and expenditure and audited accounts presented to the Annual General Meeting.

(c) All cheques shall be signed by the Hon. Treasurer or such other Member(s) of the Management Committee as that Committee shall authorise from time to time.

(a) These shall comprise the following who shall be elected each year at the Annual General Meeting.

(i) President. Indefinitely.

(ii) Chairman. Elected for three years and re-electable.

(iii) Honorary Secretary. Elected for five years and re-electable.

(iv) Honorary Treasurer. Elected for five years and re-electable.

(v) Such other Officers, if any, as the Annual General Meeting deem appropriate to elect from time to time.

(vi) Officers may be re-elected at the end of their term of office.

(a) Shall be vested in the Management Committee comprising:

(i) The Officers.

(ii) Ex-Officio members of the Committee.

(iii) Two members elected at the Annual General Meeting for a period of two years.

(iv) A representative of W.C.A.

(b) The Management Committee shall have power to co-opt.

(c) The Management Committee shall each year appoint the following:

(i) Hon Team Manager.

(ii) 1st XI Captain.

(iii) 2nd XI Captain.

(iv) Such other appointments as the Committee deem appropriate from time to time.

(v) Appointees may be reappointed at the end of their term of office. The persons so appointed if not otherwise Members of the Management Committee shall become ex-officio Members of that Committee.

(d) The Management Committee may appoint such sub-committees as it feels appropriate from time to time.

(e) The Management Committee shall appoint the Chairman of each Sub-Committee.

(f) The Sub-Committees shall be responsible to and shall produce copies of their Minutes to the Management Committee.

(g) A Selection Committee shall be appointed

(i) By the Management Committee.

(ii) The Selection Committee shall be responsible to the Management Committee.

(h) The Management Committee shall meet at such times and places as it shall from time to time determine; four members present shall constitute a quorum.

(i) Meetings of the Management Committee shall be presided over by the Chairman or in his absence by the Vice-Chairman but in their absence the members present shall elect one of their number to be acting Chairman of that meeting.

(j) Any votes at meetings of the Management Committee or Sub Committees shall be by show of hands or by secret ballot by the decision of the Chairman or at the request of any member of the Management Committee or Sub-Committee and a simple majority shall prevail.

(k) The Management Committee and Sub-Committee may formulate their own rules of procedure and the Management Committee may delegate its power to Sub-Committees.

(I) The Management Committee shall have power to fill any vacancies arising in the Officers or elected Members of that Committee during that year such persons to hold office until the next Annual General Meeting.

(a) Nominations in writing proposed by one member, seconded by another member must be submitted to the Honorary Secretary at least 7 clear days prior to the date of the election meeting.

(b) In the absence of any nomination being made in accordance with Rule 9.1 a nomination duly proposed and seconded may be made at the election meeting.

(c) If any election is not contested the nominee(s) shall be deemed elected.

(d) Any contested election shall be conducted by secret ballot with the result decided by a simple majority.

(a) The Patron(s) the President, Hon Life Vice-Presidents, Hon Life Members, Life Members and all other Members (except Junior Members) shall be the only persons entitled to attend and vote at a General Meeting. Proxy votes shall not be allowed.

(b) A Quorum shall be ten members present.

(c) All business to be transacted at the Meeting must be specified in the notice of the Meeting.

(d) An Annual General Meeting shall be held on or before the 30th April in each year and the ordinary business of that meeting shall consist of the presentation of an Annual Report, the Annual Accounts and the elections.

(e) The President in office at the beginning of the Meeting (or in his absence the Chairman or failing that the Vice-Chairman who are likewise in office at the beginning of the Meeting) shall chair the whole of any General Meeting and shall be entitled to a casting vote, in addition to his own vote, except in relation to any election in which the person presiding is one of the nominees for election, in which event the casting vote will be exercisable by the next Senior Officer determined in the order of Officers set out in Rule 7.

(f) A Special General Meeting shall be convened by the Honorary Secretary at the request of the Management Committee or upon receipt of a written requisition stating its purpose and signed by at least 30 members.

(g) The Honorary Secretary shall give not less than 14 clear days notice of a General Meeting to Members.

(h) A patron or patrons may be appointed at a General Meeting to hold office until the next Annual General Meeting.

(i) Auditors shall be appointed at the Annual General Meeting.

(a) Must be proposed by one member and seconded by another member and submitted in writing to the Honorary Secretary at least 28 days before the date of a General Meeting.

(b) Must be approved by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the Members present and voting.

At all events in which players of WMC participate, doping is strictly forbidden. Doping is the use by or distribution to a sportsman of banned substances as defined by the lOG Medical Commission.
Any cricketer must, if requested by an official designated by the Governing Body for the purpose of doping control, submit to a doping control test. Failure to do so will be taken as if a positive result has been obtained, and dealt with accordingly.
Identification of a forbidden substance and/or one of its metabolites, or the presence of specified amounts of endogenous, i.e. naturally occurring substances subject to quantitative analysis in body fluid, will constitute an offence, and the offender may be penalised. For these regulations, caffeine will be dealt with as though it were an endogenous substance.
Any person assisting or inciting others in the contravention of doping regulations shall be considered as having committed an offence against the Governing Body rules and will be subject to disciplinary action.
If the analysis of a sample obtained from a player indicated the presence of a banned substance the recognised procedure as laid down by the Sports Council for Wales shall be followed and the Council or its designated sub committee shall take such action as it considers appropriate.

To comply with the Child and Vulnerable Persons Policy and the implementation procedures set out in the England and Wales Cricket Board Policy in October of 2003 and any amendments made to these guidelines from time to time, either by that body or any of its approved successors.

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