Rules of the Association

1. Any person desirous of becoming a member of this Association shall, on payment of a fee of £15.00, be enrolled as a member and thereupon become responsible for an annual subscription of £15.00 payable in advance of the thirty first day of December each year.

Annual Subscription £15.00

2. No member shall withdraw from the Association unless he has given notice in writing at least one month before the 1st January in each year.

3. The management of the business of the Association shall be conducted by the Committee. The President or the Chairman for the time being of the Committee or other meetings of the association shall have the casting vote. Five members of the Committee to form a quorum.

4. Every member shall observe all bye-laws, regulations and orders of the Committee for the government of the Association, and for shows, held by or in connection therewith, and pay all fines and forfeits which the Council shall, in the pursuance of their powers, impose.

5. Annual Meetings of the Association shall be held in Keswick or at other such place and time in each succeeding year as the Committee shall appoint.

Additional Rules of the Association as passed at the Annual General Meeting of March 1992, March 1993 and March 2009.

6. The objects of the Association are the protection and promotion of the Herdwick breed of sheep and the interests of their breeders especially in and around the Lake District in the County of Cumbria.

7. Membership
a) Owners and keepers of flocks of Herdwick sheep which are approved by an Annual Meeting or Committee Meeting of the Association as being of satisfactory quality shall be eligible for Flockmaster membership. All flocks registered before March 1992 are deemed already to be satisfactory.
b) Supporters of the objects of the Association shall be eligible for Supporters Membership.
c) Annual Subscriptions and Life Compositions for both classes of membership shall be determined annually at the Annual Meeting.

8. Registration of tups:
Persons wishing to register Herdwick tups in the Association's Flock Book shall

(a) be Flockmaster members of the Association and

(b) shall submit their tups for inspection to an officer (normally the Secretary) of the Association and at least one other member of an Inspection panel comprising not less than six people in total which shall be appointed at the Annual Meeting;

(c) such inspections shall take place on member's farms within the Lake District National Park or within ten miles from its boundary or at the Fell Dales Show or at the Keswick or Broughton-in-Fumess Tup Sales or at another place convenient to the Secretary of the Association and in that case at the expense of the member seeking registration.

(d) Arrangement for registering tups at other places can be made by consulting the secretary and at the secretary's discretion as to place and time.

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