British Barcelona Club Rules
This organisation shall be called THE BRITISH BARCELONA CLUB, with headquarters at 19, THESIGER STREET, CATHAYS, CARDIFF, SOUTH GAMORGAN CF2 4BN. The lofts of all members must be situated within THE BRITISH ISLES and should a member remove his loft to a place outside the area so defined, his competitive membership shall cease.
RULES
Rules as per R.RRA. Standard Rules.
Club Rules
1. The object of the Club is to organise a race from Barcelona
area each year; as long as this race point is available no other
race point will be considered.
2. MEMBERS ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION will be £10.00 which shall be
paid BEFORE the 31St March each year. The Entrance Fee for New
Members will be £3.00.
3. The entire management of the Club shall be vested in the
Management Committee, five to form a quorum who shall have power
to add to their number and fill up any vacancies that may occur
and shall make Rules, Bye Laws, Regulations and Conditions as to
the management of the Club, its races or anything connected
therewith, all of which Rules, Bye-Laws, Regulations and
Conditions shall be binding upon every member of the Club.
4. The Committee of Management to consist of a President, Vice-Presidents,
Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer and two Auditors, and a committee
of ten, who shall be elected from members of the Club at the A.G.M.
of the Club.
5. The Committee reserve the right to refuse any member admission
to the Club If they deem they are justified in refusing admission,
and may suspend any member who wilfully violates the rules of the
Club.
6. Members withdrawing from the Club forfeit all claims to his
properly. Members being suspended from the Club forfeit all
claims to prizes, pools entry fees and property.
7. Applications for membership must be made in writing and shall
be accompanied by the first annual subscription.
8. Loft locations (Longitude and Latitude) must be forwarded to
the Secretary with the application for membership. Any changes
that should occur, the Secretary MUST be informed, before you
compete in ANY race.
9. The Club will run two intermediate old bird races Annually.
The First intermediate race be flown from Nantes. The Second
intermediate race be flown from Bordeaux.
10. A.G.M. and Dinner will be the third Saturday in November each
year.
11. All distances will be obtained by the member and cost of same,
be met by the member.
12: The Club shall run a Young Bird race annually.
13. The British Homing World to be the official organ of the Club
and the publication of race results, or any alterations of the
rules, regulations or conditions therein, shall be notice to all
members.
14. The longest old bird race be flown from Palomos.
15. Officers and members of the committee shall notify the
Secretary, in the event of illness, preventing non-attendance at
a meeting of the committee. Absence without notification for two
consecutive meetings of the committee, excluding the Annual
General Meeting, shall bring about automatic resignation from the
committee.
16. That The British Barcelona Club become a Member of “The
Alliance of Specialist Clubs.
17. NO competitors to share the same Basket or Container and that
NO Cardboard Boxes be allowed EXCEPT those provided by and
delivered by Amtrak or lnterlink and ONLY by prior arrangement
with The Secretary.
18. That a diploma to be known as “The Spanish Diploma”
be awarded to a member, who times in the same bird, in race time,
three times in all, flying NOT LESS than 630 miles in the club’s
longest Old Bird race. A member who times in the same bird, in
race time, three times in all, flying less than 630 miles shall
be awarded a diploma to be known as a “Diploma of Merit”.
To receive these awards members MUST CLAIM and with their claim
they must forward on to the Secretary four photographs of their
bird suitable for reproduction onto the Diploma and for sending
on to the fancy press along with the following information. Full
RING NUMBER of the bird raced by him/her, the RACEPOINTS and
DATES, Positions won in SECTION and OPEN, the DISTANCES FLOWN,
VELOCITIES re-corded, and the total number of birds entered in
SECTION and OPEN in each of the races concerned.
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