7.        MEMBERSHIP

            Membership of Nomads shall be accorded in any of the following categories:

            7.1    Honorary Life Membership

                      7.1.1    Honorary Life Membership of the Club shall be extended only by invitation of the National Council in
                                   recognition of long and meritorious service to Nomads. Any Member Club and the elected
                                   Members of the National Executive may propose candidates for this office. 

                      7.1.2    Honorary Life Membership shall be extended only to such Male Nomads as shall be deemed
                                   proper recipients of the highest honour Nomads can bestow, and only for exceptional voluntary
                                   services to the game of Golf in general, and Nomads in particular.

                      7.1.3    Honorary Life Members of Nomads shall not be required to meet the participation obligations of
                                   Full Members  but shall be required to belong to a recognised Golf Club as stipulated in Clause
                                   7.3.1 of the Constitution unless he may be categorised as Non-Active in terms of Clause 7.6.

                      7.1.4    The voting rights in respect of Clause 7.1 (specifically to apply only to the issue in relation to
                                   nominations for Honorary Life Membership), be as follows. Those eligible to vote shall be:-
                                                all Honorary Life Members,
                                                all Past National Chairmen   and
                                                the current elected Members of the National Executive.

                                    7.1.4.1   The maximum number of eligible voters would comprise the total of those Members in the
                                                   above 3 categories present at the National Council Meeting plus those eligible voting by
                                                   proxy.

                                    7.1.4.2    Individuals who consider themselves not qualified to cast an informed vote should
                                                    declare this fact and abstain from voting. The total number of eligible votes would then be
                                                    reduced accordingly and the remainder would then carry out the voting.

                                    7.1.4.3    Eligible voters not present at the National Council Meeting may cast proxy votes, in
                                                    writing. Such votes are to be lodged with the National Chairman or the National Secretary
                                                    by the start of the National Council Meeting.
 

                                    7.1.4.4    A voter may cast only one vote per nominee irrespective of the number of categories in
                                                    which the voter may qualify to vote.

                    7.1.5     The votes are to be lodged with and scrutinised by the National Chairman or his nominated
                                  representatives.

                                    7.1.5.1    A person shall be accepted as Honorary Life Member if the number of votes cast for is
                                                    equal to or greater than the nearest whole number below that which constitutes 75 per
                                                    cent of those voting. 

                      7.1.6    Honorary Life Members

                                   7.1.6.1    Will receive all Nomads publications as issued by the National Secretary.

                                   7.1.6.2    May wear Nomads insignia.

                                   7.1.6.3    Shall be eligible to participate in any Nomads competition.

                                   7.1.6.4    Automatically are Members of the National Council of Nomads and may attend
                                                   Committee Meetings of their Member Club and may vote thereat.

                      7.1.7    Neither entrance fees, nor subscriptions, nor any monthly competition entry fees are payable by
                                   Honorary Life Members. 

                      7.1.8    Honorary Life Members who transfer to other Nomads Golf Clubs across international borders
                                   transfer as Honorary members of the Club to which they have transferred but shall continue to be
                                   recognised as Honorary Life members of the Nomads Club in the country from which they have
                                   transferred.

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