Aims & Objectives

Membership shall be open to all registered Breed Societies for the breed. The council shall be called the Great Dane Breed Council. To be consultative and informative centre of excellence for the breed. To have the ultimate decision concerning a hereditary register and an appointed Health Officer plus a combined judges list to be implemented as per Kennel Club rules and regulations.  A Breed Council is a consultative body and shall not have executive powers.

There cannot be any changes or alteration to a Breed Club's constitution by the Breed Council.

Any amendments, changes or additions cannot be made to the Breed Standard by the Breed Council unless agreed by a two third majority of the participating Clubs.

A Breed Council should not be eligible to hold any form of Kennel Club licensed event.

OFFICERS:

To comprise of Chairman; Vice Chairman; Secretary and Treasurer.

Chairman; Vice Chairman; Secretary and Treasurer to be elected by the Breed Council delegates for a predetermined length of time - all of the same length but only elected for a maximum term of three years.

The Chairman; Vice Chairman; Secretary and Treasurer shall not be from the same Breed Club.

COMMITTEE:

To consist of two of three named delegates from a Breed Club Committee who should for continuity include the same two members of each Club but with the option to change delegates as the need arises.

There should be only two delegates per Club which could include the Chairman; Vice Chairman; Secretary and Treasurer.

That there will only be one vote per Club on any issue.

VOTING RIGHTS FOR OFFICERS:

The Chairman shall not have a casting vote on any issue.

The Chairman; Vice Chairman; Secretary and Treasurer if elected from a Club may cast their vote on behalf of the said Club only if no other delegate from that Club is present.

MEETINGS:

The meetings of the Breed Council should be a minimum of 2 (two) per year or as deemed necessary due to unforeseen circumstances. The meetings to be held in the Spring and Autumn of each year.

A quorum to consist of 1 (one) person representing each Club, from a minimum of 6 (six) Clubs.

MEETING NOTIFICATION/AGENDA FORMAT:

Notification of Breed Council meetings to be issued by the Secretary 60 (sixty) days prior to the meeting and to include the minutes of the previous meeting.

Notification to be sent to the Secretaries of the participating Clubs.

The agenda to be formulated on the inputs from each Club and relevant Kennel Club information to be with the Breed Council Secretary a minimum of 30 (thirty) days prior to the meeting.

All submissions for the agenda must be accompanied by the rationale for inclusion.

The said agenda and confirmation of date, venue for the meeting and the commencement time to be sent to Secretaries of the participating Clubs.

The Secretaries of the Clubs to have the responsibility for distributing the correspondence to their own delegates.

COUNCIL ASSETS:

In the event of the Breed Council ceasing to exist that the current KC rules regarding the disposal of the Breed Council assets should be followed.

COUNCIL ACCOUNTS:

Any monies raised by the Breed Council should be placed into a major Bank/Building Society account and that the authorised signatures to withdraw monies up to the level of £200.00 (two hundred) without reverting to the Council should be 2 (two) of 3 (three) Officers i.e. Treasurer; Chairman and Secretary.

The signatories should be unrelated and not resident in the same household.

Subscriptions as per KC guide lines states:

“the annual subscription/contribution shall be such amount as agreed at the inaugural general meeting of the said Breed Council”.

The initial proposed subscription from participating Clubs to be £100.00 (one hundred) per year, the year to commence 1st January ending the 31st December.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING:

An A.G.M. shall be held before the last day of June each year and to be attended by Council members and fully paid up members of any Club affiliated to the Breed Council.

Non-delegate attendees shall have no voting rights nor have the right to speak unless invited to do so by the Chair at that meeting.

ANNUAL RETURNS TO KC:

The Breed Council shall submit by 31st July each year to the Kennel Club a copy of its current constitution/rules incorporating all approved amendments. The names of its Officers, a copy of the Judges List and a copy of its annual statement of accounts.

AMENDMENTS TO RULES:

Any proposed amendment to the Breed Council Rules and Regulations should be brought to the notice of the Council within the constraints of the Council meetings and afterward approved by the Kennel Club and ratified by the AGM.

JUDGES LIST:

A1 LIST

A2 LIST

A3 (BREED SPECIALISTS)

B LIST

C LIST

4th Amendment

Dated 24th April 2001

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