Draft of

CUSPÓIRí AGUS RIALACHA - OBJECTS AND RULES

as proposed by Special Rules Revision Sub-Committee and presented at A.G.M., January, 1980

 

CUSPOIRÍ - OBJECTS

  1. To foster and maintain among Irish Republicans friendships formed during imprisonment or internment as a result of their service to the Irish Republican cause.
  1. To provide social and recreational facilities for those who have been imprisoned or interned for Irish Republican beliefs.
  1. To provide for Members such welfare facilities as the Committee may consider necessary.
  1. To support all lawful efforts directed towards the establishment and international recognition of an all-Ireland Republic.

 

BALLRAÍOCHT - MEMBERSHIP

  1. (a). Full membership shall be restricted to those who have been imprisoned or interned for their Irish Republican beliefs. New Members (Full) may be admitted by the Committee on the proposal of two Full Members, and such admissions by the Committee shall be for a probationary period of three months during which period he or she shall not be entitled to vote at the Annual General Meeting.
  1. (b). The names and addresses of persons proposed as ordinary or associate members of the Club shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in the Club premises for at least one week before their election, and an interval of not less than two weeks shall elapse between the nomination and election of ordinary or associate members.
  1. (a). Associate membership will be open to persons of good character who will subscribe to the Objects of the Club, but who are unable to qualify for Full Membership. Associate Members will be admitted under the same procedure as laid down for the admission of Full Members (see Paragraph 5 above). Associate Members shall not be eligible for membership of the Committee, and shall not have the right to vote at any meeting of the Club.
  1. (b): No persons shall be allowed to become honorary or temporary members of the Club, or be relieved of the payment of the regular subscription or entrance fee.
  1. (c). No person under the age of eighteen years shall be admitted to membership of the Club.
  1. (d). Persons shall not be admitted in such numbers to membership not carrying rights of voting in relation to ~e affairs of the Club. as will result in the number of members not having such rights being more than three times the number of members having such rights.
  1. A Member, either Full Member or Associate Member, may be suspended or expelled from the Club by the Committee for a breach of the rules or of any bye-law made by the Committee, or for conduct prejudicial to the interests of the Club or of its Members.

 

MAOIN AN CHUMAINN - PROPERTY OF THE CLUB

  1. The property of the Club shall be vested in five (5) Trustees, whose decision as to the disposal of the Club's lands, premises, fixtures and fittings shall be subject to the approval of the Annual General Meeting or of an Extraordinary General Meeting called to consider such decisions of the Trustees. It is the duty of the Trustees to maintain the Principles as enshrined in the Constitution and Objects of the Club.
  1. The annual subscription for full membership shall be £3.00, payable in advance. The annual subscription for Associate Members shall be £1 payable in advance. There shall be an entrance fee of £1.00 for new full members, payable with the application but returnable if the applicant is not elected to membership. There shall be an entrance tee of £1.00 for new Associate Members, payable with the application but returnable if the applicant is not elected to membership.
  1. Members' annual subscription shall be due for renewal on 1st January of each year. No member - shall be allowed to avail himself of any of the privileges of membership until his subscription for the current year has been paid. Should any member fail to pay his annual subscription on or before the 1st February, he shall cease to be a member.

 

COISTE AN CHUMAINN - CLUB COMMITTEE

  1. The business and affairs of the Club shall be under the management of a Committee which shall consist of Cathaoirleach, Rúnai and Cisteoir, together with six other Members, three of whom shall may be elected as Leaschathaoirleach, Leasrúnaí and Leaschisteoir. The Cathaoirleach, Rúnai and Cisteoir shall be elected annually at the Annual General Meeting. The remaining six Members shall also be elected at the Annual General Meeting.

All official and members of the Committee shall be eligible for re-election. Failure of a Committee-man to attend on three successive Committee meetings without a valid reason will automatically. Leave this seat on the Committee vacant. Vacancies occurring on the Committee shall be filled by co-option by the remaining Members of the Committee. The Committee shall keep correct accounts, books and records and shall submit for audit, not later than three weeks before the Annual General Meeting, the annual statement of account for the previous year, together with a balance sheet showing the asset5 and liabilities of the Club as at that date.

The Committee shall meet at least once in each calendar month, and the Rúnai shall send notice by post of the date, time and place of each such meeting to each Member of the Committee.

 

CRUINNIÚ CEANN BLIANA - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

  1. The supreme governing body of the Club shall be the Annual General Meeting which shall be held in the month of June each year.

Notification of such a meeting shall be by means of a notice in the press rather than by individual notices.

Motions to be considered by the Annual General Meeting must be submitted to the Club Rúnai not less than thirty days before the Annual General Meeting.

Any alteration or amendment of the Rules of the Club shall be made only at a General Meeting of the Club with the sanction of two-thirds of those voting.

The Rúnai of the Club, shall summon an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Club on requisition signed by fifteen members and such meeting shall be held within twenty-one days - of receipt of requisition. The Rúnai shall notify each Member individually, at least seven days before the date of the meeting, -and shall ensure that each member is made aware, in writing, of the purpose for which the requisitioned meeting is being held.

  1. (a). In the event of such a meeting a deposit of guarantee must be deposited with the Cisteoir before notifantee. must be deposited with the Cisteoir before such notifications are .published, this to be returned if the case is upheld.. Notification of such a meeting Is by means of a press notice.
  1. Trustees, in whom the property of the Club shall be vested, shall be elected at an Annual General Meeting and shall be five in number. They shall remain in office until death, resignation or removal by resolution of Annual General Meeting, and such resolution of removal shall require the sanction of two-thirds of those voting on the resolution. Vacancies on the Board of Trustees shall be filled at the next General Meeting.

On removal or retirement a Trustee shall do all the acts necessary to make available to the Club, or such persons as the Committee of the Club may direct, funds and property of the Club.

  1. Any member found guilty of canvassing for votes for himself or others for any seat on the Committee or on the Board of Trustees shall be automatically expelled from the Club.

 

BEÁR -BAR

  1. (a). No member of the Committee, no manager or servant employed in the Club shall have any personal interest in the supply of intoxicating liquor therein or in the profits arising from such supply.
  1. (b). Intoxicating liquor shall not be supplied to any person under the age of eighteen years.
  1. (c). Correct accounts and books shall be kept showing the receipts, expenditure and financial affairs of the Club.
  1. (d). The same person, except where that person is a parent, husband, wife or child of a member, shall not be admitted as a visitor to the club premises on more than twenty times in any period of twelve months.
  1. (c). A visitor shall immediately on his admission to the Club premises, enter his name and address in a book which shall be kept for that purpose and which shall show the date of each visit.
  1. (f). A visitor shall not be supplied with intoxicating liquor in the Club premises unless upon the invitation and in the company of a member.
  1. (g). Intoxicating liquor may be supplied on the premises of the Club only during the following hours:
  1. On Sundays, Christmas Day and Good Friday: 12 noon -2.30p.m, 7.pm – 10.30pm
  2. On any other day: 11 .30a.m - 5.00p.m., 7.00pm – 11.30pm.

These times are adjustable at the discretion of the Committee.

  1. (h). A Statement, printed in plain type, of the hours during which intoxicating liquor may be supplied on the premises of the Club shall be exhibited in a conspicuous part of the Club premises.
  1. (i). Intoxicating liquor shall not be supplied to persons who are not members of the Club for consumption outside the premises of the Club.
  1. (j). Intoxicating -liquor shall not be supplied to members of the Club for consumption out side the premises of the Club except where the liquor is supplied in such quantities and during such hours, being hours within the permitted hours, and on such days as the District Inspector of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, acting for the district in which the premises are situate, may authorise in writing.