EC Meeting July 2017

Gibraltar General & Clerical Association – Rules & Constitution

2.19 The subscription shall in all cases be payable to the Union. Subscriptions or installments shall be remitted to the GGCA National Secretary as soon as practicable, and shall not be deemed to have been paid until received by the GGCA National Secretary on behalf of the Union. 2.20 Unless the GGCA Executive Committee shall otherwise direct by reason of exceptional circumstances, no subscription or any part of a subscription shall be repaid to a member or to a person who has ceased to be a member.

2.21

(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) of this Rule, a member shall cease to be a member for non-payment of subscription as follows:

(a) a member whose subscription has been paid by deduction from salary cancels authority for such deduction, membership shall cease as from the date upon which cancellation takes effect; (b) if the subscription of a member who has ordinarily paid by Bank transfer or by a single yearly payment has not been received by the GGCA National Secretary within 6 months after the same is due, that member shall cease to be a member of the Union at the expiration of such period of 6 months; (2) Paragraph (1) of this Rule shall not apply if the authority for deduction is cancelled, or the subscription or installment is unpaid, only by reason of the member substituting, by virtue of Rule 2.18, some other permissible method of payment for that hitherto adopted. (3) Paragraph (1) of If is Rule shall not apply where a Working Member becomes a Retired Member provided that within three months of retirement the member makes satisfactory alternative arrangements in accordance with these Rules for payment of the subscriptions then due. 2.22 A member who ceases to be a member for non payment of subscriptions or who resigns in accordance with these Rules shall be readmitted to membership at the absolute discretion of the GGCA Executive Committee who may require payment of a re admission fee which shall not exceed three months’ subscription at the appropriate rate.

PART 3 – SECTORS

DESIGNATION OF SECTORS

3.1

There shall be such Sectors consisting of such members of the Union as the GGCA Executive Committee may from time to time determine in accordance with this Rule.

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