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Gibraltar General & Clerical Association – Rules & Constitution
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PART 2 – MEMBERSHIP
ELIGIBILITY
2.1
(1)
A person shall be eligible for membership:
(a)
if he or she is employed in professional, scientific, technical,
managerial or such allied work in such organisations and
industries as the GGCA Executive Committee shall from
time to time determine; or
(b)
if he or she has ceased working while in membership due to
retirement, redundancy or some other reason; or
(c)
if he or she falls within a category of persons which the
GGCA Executive Committee has by resolution from time to
time determined to be appropriate for acceptance into
membership of the Union.
(2)
If any question arises as to whether a person is eligible for membership
within the meaning of this Rule, the question shall be decided by the
GGCA Executive Committee whose decision shall be forthwith notified
in writing to the person concerned.
(3)
If a person is declared ineligible for membership by the GGCA
Executive Committee the written notification shall inform the person of
their right of appeal under Appendix 1.
2.2
(1)
A person being eligible for membership under Rule 2.1 shall become a
member if:
(a)
he or she has delivered (whether by post or otherwise) a
complete and signed application for membership on the
Union’s official form to the GGCA National Secretary or
other person authorised by the GGCA Executive Committee
to receive it, accompanied by an appropriate signed
authority for payment of the subscriptions; and
(b)
membership has been approved by Union Headquarters,
acting for the GGCA Executive Committee, having
confirmed as far as possible that the applicant is eligible for
membership in accordance with Rues 2.1(1) and 2.1(2).
2.3
Compliance with the requirements set out in the preceding paragraphs shall
not confer membership upon any person who has at any time previously
ceased to be a member on expulsion unless and until the GGCA Executive
Committee has approved re-admission.