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NOMADS GOLF CLUB – SOUTH AFRICA
CONSTITUTION
Honorary Life Membership Committee is to make recommendations to the Member
Club on its view on the suitability of any proposed candidate, so that the Club may
proceed or decline to formally lodge a proposal with the National Secretary by the
stated deadline for such submissions.
7.1.1.3 The Honorary Life Member Committee shall make known to the National
Management Committee at the 2nd Management Meeting of each year whether or
not they have themselves proposed any nominations for Honorary Life membership,
to the National Executive Committee. The name of the nominee shall however
remain confidential.
7.1.1.4 The nomination(s) and résumé(s) of candidates for Honorary Life
Membership shall be in the hands of the National Secretary by no later than
December 31st of the year preceding the next National Council Meeting. The
résumés of such candidates shall be distributed in strictest confidence to all eligible
voters within fourteen (14) days of the aforementioned closing date for nominations.
7.1.1.5 The Chairman of the Honorary Life Member Committee will inform all eligible
voters of their endorsement, or otherwise, of any candidates proposed, within seven
(7) days of the distribution of the candidates résumés referred to in 7.1.1.4.
7.1.2
Honorary Life Membership shall be extended only to such Nomads as shall be
deemed proper recipients of the highest honour Nomads can bestow, and only for
exceptional voluntary services to the game of Golf in general, and Nomads in
particular.
7.1.3
Honorary Life Members of Nomads shall not be required to meet the participation
obligations of Full Members but shall be required to belong to a recognised Golf
Club as stipulated in Clause 7.3.1 of the Constitution unless he may be categorised
as Non-Active in terms of Clause 7.6.
7.1.4
The voting rights in respect of Clause 7.1 (specifically to apply only to the issue in
relation to nominations for Honorary Life Membership), shall be as follows. Those
eligible to vote shall be: All Honorary Life Members, all Past National Chairmen, and
the current elected Members of the National Executive.
7.1.4.1 The maximum number of eligible voters would comprise the total of those
Members in the above 3 (Three) categories.
7.1.4.2 Individuals who consider themselves not qualified to cast an informed vote
should declare this fact and abstain from voting. The total number of eligible votes
would then be reduced accordingly and the remainder would then carry out the
voting.
7.1.4.3 Voting is to take place in writing, and must be lodged simultaneously with
the Chairman of the Honorary Life Membership Committee and the National
Secretary no later than 30 (Thirty) days before the date of the National Council
Meeting.
7.1.4.4 A voter may cast only one vote per nominee irrespective of the number of
categories in which the voter may qualify to vote.