The following has been decided by the Board of Directors and the Hertfordshire FA Council.
Suspension of players starts on the last Monday in August and ceases on the 2nd Sunday after the 1st of May.
Unless otherwise notified all suspension of players date from the 1st Monday following 14 days after the meeting at which the suspensions are decided upon.
Council will treat as misconduct the discussions in the Press, by either of the parties concerned, of a dispute that is sub judice.
Every League or Competition sanctioned by this Association must make provision in its Rules for the appointment of an Appeals Board, the members of which will be appointed, or approved, by the Hertfordshire Football Association Council.
Council will exercise its rights to appoint one of its members to sit on the Management Committee of Leagues and Competitions under its jurisdiction, should it deem it advisable to do so, but such members will not have the power to vote unless it be conferred upon them by the League or Competition.
IMPORTANT
THE HERTFORDSHIRE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
SENIOR CUP COMPETITIONS
TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER ALL EXCEPT
THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
AND FOOTBALL LEAGUE MATCHES
See Competition Rule 3(d)
COUNCIL'S STANDING ORDERS
1. All meetings of Council shall be held on dates and at times fixed by Council, except in special circumstances, when the Honorary Secretary may fix some other hour or day. A record shall be kept of the attendance of members at each meeting.
2. Notes of intended motions and questions by Members of Council must be given in writing to the Honorary Secretary not less than 14 days prior to the date of the next Council Meeting, and he shall then place these on the Agenda in the order in which they are received.
3. The Honorary Secretary shall give at least four days' notice to each member of every meeting of Council, together with an agenda of the business.
4. At all meetings of Council the Honorary Secretary shall submit the minutes of the last preceding Council Meeting. The reports of Committee Meetings shall next be submitted. Members may then ask questions (through the Chairman) which have reference to the minutes or reports. The business on the agenda shall be proceeded with in such order as the Chairman may direct.
5. Each member on speaking shall rise and address himself to the Chairman, and not to any other member of Council. During the time any member is speaking all the other members shall remain seated. Whenever the Chairman rises to speak no one shall continue standing nor shall anyone rise until the Chair has been resumed.
6. All motions, whether original or amendments, shall, if the Chairman requires it, be reduced to writing, signed by the mover and handed to the Honorary Secretary immediately on being moved, and every member proposing such motion or amendment shall read the same before speaking on it.
7. The mover of every original resolution, but not of any amendment (unless it becomes an original motion) shall have the right to reply, not introducing therein any new matter, but confining himself strictly to the answering of previous objections, immediately after which the question shall be put from the Chair. No other member shall be allowed to speak more than once on the same question, unless permission be given to explain, or the attention of the Chairman be called to a point of order.
8. When an amendment is moved upon a proposition, no further amendment shall be moved or taken into consideration until the first is disposed of, but any number of amendments may be brought forward in succession, and the question must be put in such a manner that if one amendment be negatived another may be moved upon the original proposition, but if an amendment be affirmed it shall form the proposition under consideration whereupon further amendments may be moved, and if after the disposal of an amendment no second or further amendments may be moved, the question must ultimately be put on the original or amended proposition, as the case may be, in order to its being passed as a resolution.
9. When discussion arises upon an amended proposition, the mover of the amendment which has displaced the original proposition may speak in reply, and so in like manner with respect to any further and displacing amendments.
10. All questions shall be determined by show of hands, unless afterwards a formal division be demanded or the votes ordered to be recorded which shall be done at the request of any member supported by no fewer than two others, and in this case the names for and against shall be taken down by the Honorary Secretary and entered in the Minutes.
11. Council may by vote resolve itself into a Committee of the whole Council, and whilst in Committee there shall be no restriction as to the number of times a member may speak to the question.
12. The business under any notice upon the agenda shall not (except by consent of Council) be proceeded with in the absence of the member of Council in whose name it stands, unless he have given written authority for it to be taken up by some other member.
13. If the Chairman at any Council meeting shall be of the opinion that any motion proposed to be made thereat is of an objectionable character he shall be authorised, either before or after the same is brought forward, to put it to the vote (on which no discussion shall be allowed) whether the same shall be entertained or not, and if three-quarters of the members present decide not to entertain such motion, the same shall be considered as disposed of for the day.
14. Whenever during the transaction of the business it is stated to the Chairman that a quorum (15 members) is not present the Chairman shall declare the meeting at an end, and the names of those who are present shall be recorded in the minutes.
15. (1) The following shall be the Standing Committees, and the members thereof allocated annually by the Directors Ad Hoc Committee pursuant to Article 46;
(a) Competitions Committee
(b) Discipline Committee
(c) Referees' Committee
(d) Youth and General Football Development Committee
(e) Representative Matches and Headquarters Management Committee
(2) Each member of Council shall serve on not more than two Committees.
(3) Each Committee shall appoint its own Chairman and Vice Chairman, and five members shall constitute a quorum for each standing Committee except on the Disciplinary Committee and where 3 will form a quorum.
(4) All reports presented to Council shall be written or printed.
Only past and present Referees shall be eligible for appointment on the Referees' Examination Board and Council may co-opt members for this Board from outside its own body. Council shall have power, where an appeal be lodged or not, to amend or revoke any decision of any Committee. A member of an Association, Competition or Club shall not sit upon, nor attend except as a witness, any Committee Meeting during the determination of any matter with which his Association, Competition or Club is directly concerned.
16. In the event of any Committee not having a quorum and, other members of Council being available, these shall be co-opted for the transaction of business at that particular meeting.
17. A matter which is not on the agenda paper shall not be considered by Council unless, without discussion, a majority of three-quarters of the members present consent.
18. A resolution shall not be rescinded at the meeting of Council at which it has been passed unless the motion to rescind shall be carried by three-fourths of the members present and voting. No matter which has been discussed by Council, and on which a resolution has been passed, may be brought again for discussion within a period of twelve months from the date on which the resolution was passed unless the motion to discuss shall be carried by a majority of three-quarters of the members present and voting.