WORDING
OF THE NEW R.W.A. RULE NO.5 ON FINANCE, INCORPORATING THE PROVISION FOR
THE LEVY
5 FINANCE
(a) The
Association shall have the power to raise such finance as may be
required for its operation.
(b) In
accordance with the Rules for Competition of U.K.Athletics, the
Association shall be the Permit Issuing Authority for race walking
within England, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey and its
Dependencies and shall have the power to make such charges as may from
time to time be determined by General Committee for the issue of such
Permits.
(c) From the
1st January, 2008, the organisers or promoters of any event held under
a Permit from the Association, with the exception of the events listed
in Rule 5(f), shall be liable to pay to the Association a levy of 50p
for each entry fee received. Organisers shall be at liberty to fund
this levy by any means that they may choose, including, but not
exclusively, by adding the levy to the entry fee and by providing the
relevant sum from their own resources.
(d) The income
raised by the entry fee levies shall be remitted to the Association and
shall be disbursed by it as follows:
One half to the Association’s central funds;
One sixth each to the Midland, Northern and Southern Areas of the
Association.
This disbursement shall take
place quarterly.
(e) The Area
Committees of the Association shall be free to use these disbursed sums
for such purposes as they see fit, within the constraints of their duty
to promote and develop race walking within their Areas.
(f) The
following events held under Permit from the Association shall not be
subject to the levy: National Championships: Area Championships: events
for which the entry fee is not at the discretion of the promoting body:
events for which no entry fee is charged: such other events as may from
time to time be determined by the General Committee. For the avoidance
of doubt, when a National or Area Championship is held in conjunction
with an Open Event, that Open Event shall be subject to the levy.
(g) In any
particular instance, the General Committee shall have power to excuse
payment of the levy or to reach an equitable arrangement with any event
promoter where undue hardship may be caused.
(h) In the
event of the dissolution of the Association or of the amalgamation of
the Association with any other body, the disposal of the funds and
assets of the Association shall be determined by a ballot of members
attending an Annual General Meeting or a Special General Meeting to
which a motion proposing the disposal is put. In order for any motion
concerning such disposal to be adopted, there must be in favour of the
motion two thirds of the members present and voting at the General
Meeting.
[In order to be adopted, this
Motion must receive at least two thirds of the votes cast.]
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[Explanatory Statement, not
forming part of the motion.
It is necessary for the
Association to provide a sound foundation for its future finances and,
in the absence of any foreseen regular income not tied by its provider
to a specific purpose, the Association must take steps to provide
itself with funds. Entry fees for walking events are very low compared
with those for road, track and cross-country events and it is not
believed that the addition of a modest sum such as 50p will cause any
undue hardship.
The sum expected to be raised
from the levy is between £2,500 and £3,000 annually, so
that the Areas may expect something of the order of £400 to
£500 each. There is, of course, nothing to prevent the raising by
the Areas of any additional sum that they may require; they may
themselves, for example, wish to increase the Area Championship fees,
which will not be subject to the levy.
It is expected that the sums
raised will be spent not only on administrative costs but also on the
provision of, for example, coaching or development initiatives, where
appropriate in conjunction with other bodies, such as the Regions of
England Athletics.
All changes to the Association’s
Rules become effective immediately, but it is appreciated that some
events will already have been advertised with fees determined without
the levy, and in these cases the General Committee will use Rule 5(g)
to excuse payment.
The method of operatinging the
levy system will be that each Permit will be accompanied by a return
form, which the event promoter will use to remit to the Association the
collected levies; the form will be kept as simple as possible and will
be returned by the promoter in an envelope provided at the same time as
the Permit.
The quarterly interval for
disbursement by the General Committee is chosen in order to get the
money back to the Areas as quickly as possible without overburdening
the National Officers.]
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