Hunts FA Handbook 2014-15

Huntingdonshire FA Articles of Association

ELECTIONS TO COUNCIL 34. The Council shall divide the County into seven geographical areas known as Divisions. The Divisions shall be numbered from one to seven. Each Division shall be entitled to one Divisional Representative. At the annual general meeting in 2002 and at the annual general meeting in every third year thereafter, the Divisional Representatives representing Divisions three and four shall retire but shall be eligible for re-election. At the annual general meeting in 2003 and at the annual general meeting in every third year thereafter, the Divisional Representatives representing Divisions two, five and six shall retire but shall be eligible for re-election. At the annual general meeting in 2004 and at the annual general meeting in every third year thereafter, the Divisional Representatives representing Divisions one and seven shall retire but shall be eligible for re- election. 35. Each year the County Secretary shall send to the Affiliated Clubs within each Division whose Divisional Representatives are due to retire that year a nomination form for the election of a Divisional Representative in the place of the Divisional representative retiring. Those persons proposed to be nominated as a Divisional Representative to fill any vacancy that has arisen must be nominated by two Affiliated Clubs within the relevant Division on the nomination form prescribed by the Board. Such form must be submitted to the County Secretary by such date as the Board shall prescribe each year and must be signed by the chairman of the meeting of the Affiliated Club at which the candidate was nominated and counter-signed by the secretary of that member and by the candidate himself. No affiliated Club may nominate more than one candidate for any one vacancy. 36. No person may be nominated as a Divisional Representative for more than one Division. 37. If there is only one candidate nominated to be the Divisional Representative for a particular Division, that candidate shall, subject to the Board’s approval, be declared elected unopposed as the Divisional Representative for that particular Division at the next annual general meeting. If there is more than one candidate nominated for a particular Division there shall be a postal ballot for that particular Division in accordance with the provisions of Articles 38 to 42. 38. If there is to be a postal ballot, the names of the candidates and voting papers shall be sent at such time as the Board shall prescribe each year to the Affiliated Clubs playing within the Division concerned. 39. Voting papers must be delivered in a sealed envelope by such time as the Board shall prescribe to the office and shall be opened by such person or persons as the Board shall decide. The candidate receiving the largest numbers of votes for each Division shall, subject to the Board’s approval, be declared elected at the annual general meeting.

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