SANDAL LAWN TENNIS CLUB

RULES

1. Name

The Club, established in 1885, is called Sandal Lawn Tennis Club ("the Club").

2. Definitions

2.1 "the Chairman" and “the Vice-Chairman” means the persons elected from time to time to be the chairman and vice-chairman of the Club in accordance with Rule 9;

"the CLTA" means Yorkshire County Lawn Tennis Association;

“the Game” means the game of tennis;

"the Honorary Secretary" means the person elected from time to time to be the honorary secretary of the Club in accordance with Rule 9;

"the Honorary Treasurer" means the person elected from time to time to be the honorary treasurer of the Club in accordance with Rule 9;

“the LTA” means the Lawn Tennis Association (the governing body of tennis within Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) of The National Tennis Centre, 100 Priory Lane, Roehampton, London SW15 5JQ and its subsidiaries or such successor entity or entities as become(s) the governing body of the game of tennis within Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man from time to time;

“the LTA Disciplinary Code” means the disciplinary code of the LTA in force from time to time;

“the LTA Rules” means the rules of the LTA as in force from time to time;

"the Management Committee" means the committee appointed under Rule 9 to manage

the Club;

"the Members" means the members of the Club admitted from time to time to membership of the Club in accordance with Rule 5;

"the Trustees" means the persons appointed from time to time to be the trustees of the Club in accordance with Rule 10.6.

2.2 Words denoting the singular number include the plural number and vice versa; words denoting the masculine gender include the feminine gender; and words denoting persons include bodies corporate (however incorporated) and unincorporated, including unincorporated associations of persons and partnerships.

3. Objects

The objects of the Club are:

(a) principally to provide facilities for and generally to promote, encourage and facilitate the playing of the Game in the area of Wakefield and District and amongst the community;

(b) to provide and maintain Club premises at Walton Lane, Sandal, WF2 6ER and club-owned

tennis equipment for the use of its members; 1

(c) to provide other ordinary benefits of an amateur sports club as set out in Schedule 18 of the Finance Act 2002 including without limitation provision of suitably qualified coaches, coaching courses, insurance, medical treatment, post-match refreshments;

(d) to sell or supply food or drink as a social adjunct to the sporting purposes of the Club;

(e) to take and retain a membership of the CLTA (and by doing so become and remain

registered as an associate of the LTA) and to comply with and uphold the Rules and

Regulations of the CLTA as amended from time to time and the LTA Rules and the LTA

Disciplinary Code and the rules and regulations of any body to which the LTA is registered

or affiliated;

(f) to acquire, establish, own, operate and turn to account in any way for the members' benefit

the tennis court facilities of the Club together with buildings and easements, fixtures and

fittings and accessories as shall be thought advisable;

(g) subject to the LTA Rules and the LTA Disciplinary Code and the LTA’s wider jurisdiction, to

make rules, regulations, bye-laws and standing orders concerning the operation of the Club

including without limitation regulations concerning disciplinary procedures that may be taken

against the Members;

(h) subject to the LTA Rules and the LTA Disciplinary Code and the LTA’s wider jurisdiction, to discipline the Members where permitted by its Rules/Regulations and to refer its Members to be disciplined by the LTA or the CLTA (as appropriate);

(i) to make donations or offer support to lawn tennis clubs which are charities or community amateur sports clubs;

(j) to do all such other things as the Management Committee thinks fit to further the interests of the Club, to advance and safeguard the interests of the Game, to promote increases in participation at all levels of the Game or as are otherwise incidental or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the objects stated in this Rule 3.

4. Application of Surplus Funds

4.1 The Club is a non-profit-making organisation. The income and property of the Club shall be applied solely towards promoting the Club's objects as set forth in these Rules. Subject to Rule 23.3 no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred, directly or indirectly, to the Members of the Club.

4.2 Nothing in Clause 4.1 shall prevent the Club from entering an agreement with a member for the supply by him to the Club of goods or services or for his employment by the Club, provided that such arrangements are approved by the Management Committee (without the member being present) and are agreed with the member on an arm's length basis.

4.3 No Member shall be paid a salary, bonus, fee or other remuneration for playing for the Club.

5. Membership

5.1 Eligibility for membership

5.1.1 Persons of either sex are eligible for full membership of the Club. No person shall be denied membership of the Club on the grounds of race, ethnic origin, creed, colour, age, disability, sex, occupation, sexual orientation, religion, political or other beliefs.

5.1.2 Persons below the age of 18 on the first of May in the current subscription year may be elected as Junior Members without the right to hold office or vote at general meetings. 2

5.1.3 The number of Members is unlimited.

5.2 Admission of Members

Any person who wishes to become a Member must submit an application in such form as the Management Committee shall decide. Every candidate for membership shall be considered by the Management Committee, which shall admit that candidate to membership of the Club unless to do so would be contrary to the best interests of the sport or the good conduct and interests of the Club. A person shall not be entitled to any privileges of the Club until two days have passed since his application for membership was submitted, whether or not he is admitted as a Member before those two days have lapsed.

5.3 Conditions of membership

5.3.1 Each member (of each class) agrees as a condition of membership:

(A) to be bound by and subject to these rules and the rules and regulations of the relevant CLTA (as in force from time to time); and

(B) to be bound by and subject to the LTA Rules and the LTA Disciplinary Code.

5.3.2 Rule 5.3.1 confers a benefit on the LTA and, subject to the remaining provisions of this rule, is intended to be enforceable by the LTA by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. For the avoidance of doubt, the members do not intend that any term of these rules, apart from Rule 5.3, should be enforceable, by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, by any person who is not a party to these rules.

5.3.3 The Management Committee may subject to Clause 7 terminate the membership of any person, or impose any other sanction it determines to be appropriate, in connection with the breach of any condition of membership set out in this rule.

5.4 Classes of Members

5.4.1 There shall be the following classes of members for the Club:

(a) Full Member:

(b) Family: being parents or guardians and others in the household within the definition of junior and student members.

(c) Junior: being a person under the age of 18 years on 1st May in the current subscription year.

(d) Student: being a person over the age of 18 years undergoing full time education on the 1st May in the current subscription year.

(e) Country: being a person who permanently resides outside a radius of 20 miles from the Club.

(f) Mid-Week: being a person over the age of 18 years limited to play between 08.00 hrs. and16.00 hrs. Monday to Friday.

(g) Non-Playing

5.4.2 Only Full Members shall be entitled to receive notice of, attend and vote at general meetings. A Member other than a Full Member shall be entitled to all the other privileges of membership relevant to this class of membership but shall not have the right to receive notice of, attend and vote at general meetings. 3

5.5 Subscriptions

5.5.1 The entrance fee and annual subscription for each class of Member shall be determined from time to time by the Management Committee provided that the Management Committee shall ensure that the fees set by it do not preclude open membership of the Club.

5.5.2 The Members shall pay any entrance fee and annual subscription fees set by the Management Committee from time to time.

5.5.3 No candidate who has been elected a Member shall be entitled to the privileges of membership until he has paid the entrance fee (if any) and his first annual subscription.

5.5.4 Any Member whose entrance fee or subscription is not paid by such date as the g Management Committee shall decide each year shall be deemed to have resigned h his membership of the Club.