CALF REGISTRATIONS

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ASSOCIATION FEES

(with effect from 1st April 2005)

RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION

1. The Council of Management shall not be less than 10 or more than 40, elected from members.

2. The quorum of the above Council shall not be less than 7.

3. The annual subscription shall be £10 per member per annum. Each member on joining the Association shall undertake to pay the annual subscription falling due on January 1st by Bankers Order. All the benefits both personal and relative to stock, may cease forthwith should the subscription not be fully paid by the end of the first quarter of the year.

4. The accounts of the Association to be audited annually prior to the annual general meeting by Accountants appointed at the annual meeting.

5. All disputes to be settled by the Council whose decision is to be final and binding.

6. All fully paid up members to be entitled to the Association's publications free of charge.

7. The Council shall from time to time elect a Chairman and a Vice Chairman, and may determine for what period each is to hold office.

8. A request by one tenth of the Members may call an extra-ordinary Meeting of the Association by giving written notice to the Secretary and Chairman.

9. If a calf is sired by a bull not in the Member's Herd, this must be stated on the Entry Form at the time of Registration.

10. A Herd prefix to be allotted by each breeder, and the same will be inserted in the Association's publications.

11. Any member found to break the Association's Rules shall be liable to disqualification.

12. Transfer of ownership to be notified to the Secretary and the appropriate fee of £10 per male, £5 per female, to be paid, except at the Association's recognised sales which continue to be free.

13. All entries when lodged become the property of the Council and are received subject to the decision of the Council to whom is reserved the right to investigate, amend or alter, and to publish the original entry. No pedigree lodged with the Council can hereafter be altered by the entrant or other person, except by the written authority of the Council.

OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION

1. To encourage, promote and improve the breeding of Whitebred Shorthorn Cattle of the type which produces bulls suitable for crossing with Galloway Cows to breed good Blue Grey Cattle and for crossing with other breeds to produce excellent Suckler Cows.

2. To compile, keep, maintain, edit, issue and publish a Herd Book of recognised pure-bred Whitebred Shorthorn Cattle, and a register or registers supplementary thereto of other recognised and qualified cattle for breeding purposes.

3. To promote, organise, manage and hold or participate in the promotion, organisation, management and holding of shows and auctions and other sales of pedigree Whitebred Shorthorn Cattle and other cattle, and to arrange or assist in the arrangement of classes of cattle at any such shows as aforesaid, and to provide, present, subscribe to or otherwise promote or aid and support the provision and augmentation or prizes to be awarded at any such shows as aforesaid and to recommend and appoint suitable persons to act as judges thereat, and also to pay or make contributions towards the payment of expenses incurred by all or any of the exhibitors in or about the exhibition of cattle at any such show as aforesaid which may be approved for this purpose by the Association.

4. The above objects of the Association to be carried out by the Council of Management elected from members of the Association as prescribed by the Articles of the Association.