The Club shall be known as the "INSURANCE CHESS CLUB" and the Members thereof shall be bound by the following rules. The objects of the Club shall be the playing of chess and its derivatives.

Membership of the Club shall be open to anyone working in Insurance or retired from such work on superannuation, and to such other persons or categories of persons as the Committee shall determine.

The annual subscription shall be not less than £15.00 for the President and for Vice-Presidents and shall be £12.50 for Members working within the Greater London area and £6.00 for other Members. Subscriptions shall be payable on 1st October in each year; a Member who has paid the due subscription shall be entitled to the benefits of membership until the following 30th September, subject only to the provisions of Rule 11. On a subscription being three months in arrear the defaulter shall be liable to forfeiture of membership and all rights pertaining thereto.

The Committee shall be empowered to promulgate a Code concerning membership and liability for payment of subscriptions. Any such Code shall have effect as if incorporated in these Rules, provided always that the Code shall accord with these Rules.

The Officers of the Club shall be the President, the Chairman, the Deputy Chairman, the Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Match Captain, who together with seven elected members, shall constitute the Committee of the Club. The Committee shall have the power to co-opt other members and to appoint from amongst its elected and co-opted membership such Assistant Secretaries, Assistant Treasurers, and Assistant Match Captains as it shall deem necessary. The quorum of the Committee shall be seven, excluding co-opted members.

The Officers and other members of the Committee shall be elected each year at the Annual General Meeting to be held either at the close of each Season, or at the commencement of the following Season, and retiring Officers and Committee members shall be eligible for re-election. The Committee shall have power to fill casual vacancies occurring for any reason during the Season, and Officers or Committee members so appointed shall be treated in all respects as if they had been elected at the preceding Annual General Meeting.

The Committee shall be responsible for the management of the Club. The Committee may delegate any of its responsibilities to the Executive, which shall consist of the Officers, or to such other sub-committees or individuals as it shall consider appropriate. However, the Committee shall not delegate the powers set out in Rule 11 below.

All the property and effects of the Club shall be vested in the Officers for the time being, as Trustees for all duly qualified Members of the Club, but no personal liability shall be held to attach to the Officers for the safe custody thereof.

The Committee shall have power to elect new Vice-Presidents from time to time.

Except by agreement of all players and officials attending, smoking shall be prohibited in the playing rooms at all events organised by, or under the auspices of, the Club.

In the event of any Member being guilty of conduct which, in the opinion of the Committee, is inconsistent with his remaining a Member, it shall have power to cancel his membership and all rights pertaining thereto, subject to his right of appeal to a General Meeting, which shall be held within two months of such an appeal being lodged with the Secretary.

No resolution for the dissolution of the Club shall be valid unless carried by three-quarters of the Members voting at a General Meeting specially called for the consideration of the question, and in that event the assets of the Club remaining, after meeting all liabilities, shall be disposed of as may be decided upon at such Meeting.

Seven days notice of every General Meeting, which shall specify the business to be transacted, shall be given to each Member. The quorum of a General Meeting shall be seven. The Committee shall call a General Meeting within two months of a written request, indicating the purpose and signed by at least twenty Members, being lodged with the Secretary.

No alterations shall be made to these Rules unless carried by three-quarters of the Members voting at a General Meeting except in the case of the rates of annual subscription set out in Rule 3 for which a simple majority of those voting shall suffice.

Annual General Meeting 24th June 1998