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Licensing Act 1964 (repealed)

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2(1)There must, under the rules, be a general meeting of the club at least once in every year, and fifteen months must not elapse without a general meeting.E+W

(2)The general committee must be capable of summoning a general meeting at any time on reasonable notice.

(3)Any members entitled to attend and vote at a general meeting must be capable of summoning one or requiring one to be summoned at any time on reasonable notice, if a specified number of them join to do so; and the number required must not be more than thirty nor more than one-fifth of the total number of the members so entitled.

(4)At a general meeting the voting must be confined to members, and all members entitled to use the club premises must be entitled to vote, and must have equal voting rights, except that—

(a)the rules may exclude from voting, either generally or on particular matters, members below a specified age (not greater than twenty-one), women if the club is primarily a men’s club, and men if the club is primarily a women’s club, and

(b)if the club is primarily a club for persons qualified by service or past service, or by any particular service or past service, in Her Majesty’s forces, the rules may exclude persons not qualified from voting, either generally or on particular matters; and

(c)if the rules make special provision for family membership or family subscriptions or any similar provision, the rules may exclude from voting, either generally or on particular matters, all or any of the persons taking the benefit of that provision as being members of a person’s family, other than that person.

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