2024 Election of board of directors
Nominations are called for candidates for election to the Board of Directors for the 2024-2025 year. There are two casual vacancies for the Board of Directors which will comprise seven Members.
In accordance with our new constitution, adopted earlier in May 2023, directors who are elected this year will hold office up to three years.
Nominations for election of Directors must be lodged with the Secretary Manager of the Company prior to 6pm on Sunday 25th October 2024.
Nomination forms for the Board of Directors are to be handed to the Secretary Manager of the Company or the Secretary’s authorised employee who will check to make sure all necessary requirements on the nomination forms have been completed and are in order.
Eligibility Criteria
Only Financial Full Voting Members of the Club shall be eligible to hold office or nominate a full voting member to the Board. (Life and Gold members have full voting rights.)
In addition to paragraph above, a member is not eligible to be nominated for election to the board who:
[I] has been cited to appear before the board or the board’s duly constituted disciplinary committee on any charge and has been found guilty of such charge within the period of 2 years immediately prior to the date determined for the next Annual General Meeting in the year in which an election of the board is required;
[II] at any time has been convicted of an indictable offense; or
[III] is not a financial member at the time that nominations for the board close.
[IV] does not hold a Director Identification Number
INSTRUCTIONS NOMINATION FOR DIRECTORS
1. The nomination form for Directors shall be made on the official Board election nomination and acceptance form (available on the website or at the manager’s office) and must be accompanied by a completed Board election nominee statutory declaration (available on the website or at the manager’s office) and shall be signed in the appropriate places as indicated.
2. The nominee shall complete and execute before a NSW Justice of the Peace a Statutory Declaration accompanying the nomination form. Any nomination submitted on which the Declaration has not been fully completed or where the Declaration discloses ineligibility under the Companies Act will be invalid and the Secretary Manager shall notify the nominee accordingly.
