1. Name
The South West Regional Management Committee

2. Geographical jurisdiction
2.1 As identified within England Basketball (EB) Articles

3. Objectives
To promote and encourage the sport of basketball in the South West Region as defined by England Basketball (EB).

On behalf of the EB act as the controller and governing body for the sport of basketball in the South West Region according to the Regulations of the EB.

To (co-ordinate) the Area basketball associations and League activities within the said South West Region.

To report the development of basketball in the South West Region to EB

To co-ordinate the funding arrangements for the development of basketball in the South West Region

To be responsible for the preparation and play of regional age group performance teams

4. Membership
4.1 The Regional Management Committee shall comprise of two representative from each Area Association and/or Leagues as defined in Appendix 1 of Article 60 of the Articles of the Association of England Basketball and dividing into the regions identified in Appendix 2 with the aforementioned Areas or Leagues associated with them. An option is available for those regions with only three area associations.

A representative from the English Schools Basketball Association, with a voting right.

The Regional Management Committee may co-opt as non-voting representatives anybody that it sees fit can assist in the development of sport. This could include representatives from National Leagues Clubs, Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Association, Mini-Basketball England or British Universities Sports Association.

Each committee member shall be entitled to one vote at a committee meeting and they may not vote in more than one capacity.

In the event of the voting being equal, the chairman shall have the casting vote.

50% of RMC voting members shall constitute a quorum or two thirds in the case where a Region only has three members.

5. Officers of the Regional Management Committee
The Area/League representatives to the Regional Management Committee as defined above shall nominate representatives to represent that League or Area on the Regional Management Committee.

The Area/League representatives elected above and the English Schools Basketball Association representative will serve on the Regional Management Committee and shall elect a Chairman from one of their number. The Chairman so elected shall serve on the Council as identified in Article 59b of England Basketball Articles. Each member shall carry one vote.

In the event there being a casual vacancy for the position of Chairman then a new Chairman shall be elected from the membership of the Regional Management Committee.

The Regional Development Manager shall be Ex-officio and will convene the meetings of the committee. He/she will not be able to act as Chairman. Other Ex-officio members of each Regional Management Committee shall be the Chairman, the Chief Executive, the Director-Development and the National Development Manager of England Basketball. All of the above will be entitled to attend the entire meeting.

A treasurer and secretary shall be elected from the membership of the Regional Management Committee.

6. Annual General Meeting
6.1 The Annual General Meeting of each Regional Management Committee will be held within 30 days of England Basketball's Annual General Meeting and at that meeting they shall elect, from the body as identified above, the Chairman who shall serve for 1 year, or may be re-elected as in 5.2. At the first meeting a schedule of meetings shall be identified.

7. Finance
The budgetary control held by the Regional Management Committee shall be the responsibility of the Treasurer. The Treasurer will present to each committee meeting a reconciliation of accounts in relation to the 40% allocated to the Area Leagues and also an allocation and targeted income for the coming year. This to be forwarded to the English Basketball Assocaition.

7.2 The Regional Management Committee shall be responsible for collating accounts of Areas and/or Leagues on behalf of England Basketball and reviewing the allocation of 40% of membership fees and the method of expenditure.

7.3 The financial year shall end on 31ST May and an audited statement of accounts up to an including this date shall be presented at the Annual General Meeting. This statement of accounts shall also be provided to EB.

7.5 The funds of the Regional Management Committee shall be held in a suitable bank or building socity account and will be allocated through authorisation of the Committee.

8. Amendments
8.1 Alterations or additions to this constitution shall require a majority of at least two-thirds of the voting members and voting officers present at a Committee meeting and then should be approved by the Council and Executive Board of England Basketball.

9. Dissolution

9.1 In the event that the Group is dissolved then EB shall be empowered to take over the activities of the Committee.

9.2 Upon the dissolution of the Committee or the Committee becoming inactive, all the remaining assets and debts of the Committee shall become the responsibility of EB.

10. Interpretation

10.1 The interpretation of this constitution shall be invested in the committee who shall determine any matters not covered above.

Appendix 1

Relevant Article of Association for England Basketball

6. (i) Membership of The Association shall be as follows:-
(a) The subscribers to the Memorandum of Association and each present member of the Executive Board
(b) Any future member of the Executive Board who within two weeks of their appointment complies with the provisions of Article 4 of these presents.
(c) Each future member of The Council.
(d) Each Area Association and for the purposes of these presents, the following shall be considered to be Area Associations and for the purposes of these definitions the boundaries of the Local Authorities shall be considered to be those that existed at 31st March:2000
Guernsey (Comprising the Islands of Alderney, Guernsey and Sark)
Bedfordshire (Comprising the County of Bedfordshire)
Bucks and Oxon (Comprising the Counties of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire)
Cambridgeshire (Comprising the County of Cambridgeshire)
Teesside (Comprising of Hartlepool, Stockton. Middlesborough and Redcar)
Derbyshire (Comprising the County of Derbyshire)
Durham (Comprising the County of Durham)
Essex (Comprising the County of Essex)
Furness (Comprising the districts of Barrow and South Lakeland in the County of Cumbria)
Greater Manchester (Comprising Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan and the districts of Macclesfield and Vale Royal in the County of Cheshire)
Hertfordshire (Comprising the County of Hertfordshire)
Isle of Man (Comprising the Isle of Man)
Jersey (Comprising the Island of Jersey)
Kent (Comprising the County of Kent)
Lancashire (Comprising the County of Lancashire)
Leicestershire (Comprising the County of Leicestershire)
Lincolnshire (Comprising the County of Lincolnshire)
Merseyside (Comprising Wirral, North West Cheshire Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens and Liverpool Chester, Ellesmere Port, Halton and Warrington in the County of Cheshire)
Norfolk (Comprising the County of Norfolk)
Northamptonshire (Comprising the County of Northamptonshire)
North Cumbria (Comprising the districts of Carlisle, Allendale and Eden in the County of Cumbria)
North East (Comprising the County of Northumberland, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, and Sunderland)
N.Staffs and S.Cheshire (Comprising the districts of Madeley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stafford, Staffordshire Moors, and Stoke-on-Trent in the County of Staffordshire, and the districts of Congleton and Crewe in the County of Cheshire)
Nottinghamshire (Comprising the County of Nottinghamshire)
Solent (Comprising the Isle of Wight, the County of Hampshire, excluding the districts of Basingstoke, Hart and Rushmoor, the County of Dorset and Salisbury and District in the County of Wiltshire)
Suffolk (Comprising the County of Suffolk)
Surrey (Comprising the County of Surrey)
Sussex (Comprising the Counties of East Sussex and West Sussex)
Warwickshire (Comprising the County of Warwickshire and Coventry)
Wessex (Comprising the County of Berkshire and the districts of Basingstoke, Hart, and Rushmoor in the County of Hampshire)
West Midlands (Comprising the County of Hereford and Worcester, the County of Shropshire, the districts of Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, South Staffordshire, and Tamworth in the County of Staffordshire, Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall & Wolverhampton)
(e) Leagues within the following regions:-
London (Comprising all 32 London Boroughs)
South West (Comprising the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset & Wiltshire excluding Salisbury and District, the unitary authorities of Bath and NE Somerset, Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset)
Yorkshire (Comprising of Barnsley, Bradford, Calderdale, Doncaster, East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, Kirklees, Leeds, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, Rotherham, Sheffield, Wakefield and York)

(f) Each Affiliated Association, and for the purposes of these presents the following shall be considered to be the Affiliated Associations:-
Army Basketball Association
Basketball Coaches Association
Basketball League Ltd.
Basketball Players' Association
British Universities Sports Association
Civil Service Basketball Association
Combined Services Basketball Association
English Association of Basketball Officials
Mini-Basketball-England
English Schools Basketball Association
Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Association
National Association of clubs for Young People
Police Athletic Association (Basketball Section)
Royal Air Force Basketball Association
Royal Navy Basketball Association
Special Olympics United Kingdom
United Kingdom Sports Association for People with Learning Disability
(g) Each Affiliated League and for the purposes of these presents these shall be considered to be such Leagues as Executive Board may from time to time recognise.
(h) Each Club
(i) Any other person, Association or Club, which the Executive Board shall admit to membership.
Subscriptions shall fall due on 1st October in any year and the membership of any Club or affiliated Association shall automatically cease if its subscriptions for the relevant year are not paid by the 31st December of that year.
7. Each Area Association, Affiliated Association, League or Club shall nominate a representative to act on its behalf and to sign the registers or consent on its behalf, and the name of such respective representatives shall be sent to the Secretary of The Association in the month of June in each year or so soon thereafter as circumstances will permit. In the case of death, resignation or removal of a representative during any year, the Area Association, affiliated Association or Club concerned shall elect a new representative to act in its place for the rest of the current year.
8. No representative shall be entitled to vote at any General Meeting unless and until they shall have been registered as such representative with the Secretary of The Association, not less than 48 hours prior to the commencement of such General Meeting.

Fees And Subscriptions
9. The fees payable by members and the annual subscription payable by Participants shall be set by the Executive Board prior to the Annual General Meeting. The amounts payable shall be the rate for the previous year index linked.
10. Every member who becomes entitled to admission to such membership shall before their or its name is entered on the register and before they or it becomes entitled to the privileges of membership, pay all subscriptions due and shall so long as membership of The Association continues, pay the annual subscription which may be prescribed in accordance with article 9 of these presents.
11. No person shall be entitled to continue as a member of The Association unless they or it is either a member of the Executive Board, a member of The Council, an Area Association, an Affiliated Association, an Affiliated League or a Club, or has been granted membership by the Executive Board under the provisions of article 6 (f) of these presents.
12. The Executive Board may pass a Resolution at a meeting (of which due notice including the notice of the intention to propose such a Resolution shall have been given) that any member of The Association cease to be such member and if such Resolution shall be carried by a majority consisting of three fourths of the members of the Executive Board present at the meeting then such Resolution shall take effect as from the conclusion of such meeting or from such subsequent time as the said Resolution may prescribe for the purpose and the Executive Board may make any alteration in the register of members required by or consequent upon such Resolution and from the time at which such Resolution takes effect, no right of voting or other rights shall be exercised by such member.
13. If any member wishes to resign as a member of The Association then they should cause notice in writing to be given of that intention so to do addressed to the Secretary of The Association and deposited at the Registered Office of The Association, and the Executive Board may accept the same on payment of all subscriptions and fees (if any) then due and owing by the member.
14. Whenever any person shall cease to be a member, the name should be removed from the register.

The Council

62. The Council shall be comprised as follows :-
(a) The Director Development who shall be Chairman
(b) The Chairmen of the Regional Management Committees.
(c) The National Development Manager and Regional Development Managers who shall not hold a vote.
(d) Any person, or organisation that the Council may from time to time choose to co-opt.
(e) The Chairman and the Chief Executive of the Association shall be ex-officio members.
(f) The Regions shall comprise:- Area Associations and/or Leagues as defined in 6(d) & (e), within the following geographical regions and shall be divided as follows:-
East
Comprising of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk.
East Midlands:
Comprising of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire.
London:
Comprising of Middlesex, London Metropolitan, South Thames, London Juniors and Essex Metropolitan Leagues.
North:
Comprising of Teesside, Durham, North East
North West:
Comprising North Cumbria, Furness, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside & North West Cheshire, Manchester Ladies League and the Isle of Man.
South:
Comprising of Solent, Bucks & Oxon, Guernsey, Jersey and Wessex.
South East:
Comprising of Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
South West:
Comprising the, Exeter & District, Gloucester, Plymouth & District, West, Wiltshire Leagues
West Midlands:
Comprising Warwickshire, North Staffs and South Cheshire and West Midlands.
Yorkshire
Comprising the Bradford, Doncaster, Huddersfield, Humberside, Leeds, Sheffield, Yorkshire Leagues.
63. The Regional Chairmen to The Council shall be elected in the following manner :-
(a) The Area/League representatives to the Regional Management Committee shall be elected by the Areas or Leagues as defined in 6 (d) & (e) at their Annual General Meeting within their respective Region. The English Schools Basketball Association shall nominate a representative to each of the Regional Management Committees.
(b) The Area/League Representatives elected in 63 (a) and the English Schools Basketball Associations representative to serve on the Regional Management Committee shall elect a Chairman from one of their number. The Chairman so elected shall serve on the Council as defined in Article 59 (b).
64. In the event of there being a casual vacancy in the composition of The Council by virtue of there being a vacancy for any of the positions of Chairman of the Regional Management Committee then arrangements shall be made by the Executive Board to conduct an election by postal ballot. Such a ballot shall be conducted in such a way as to enable the casual vacancy to be filled within 6 weeks of its having arisen.
65. The duties and functions of The Council shall be as follows :-
(i) Do all such things as are specifically required to be done by The Council as set out in these Articles.
(ii) Do all such things as are specifically required to be done by The Council as set out by the Executive Board.
(iii) Take such action as The Council may from time to time deem to be appropriate in respect of functions, which The Council is entitled to undertake as set out in these Articles.
(iv) Take such action as The Council may from time to time deem to be appropriate in respect of functions which The Council is entitled to undertake (v) Receive a report from the Executive Board.
(vi) Receive reports from the Regional Chairmen.
(vii) Advise the Executive Board on matters of policy as and when appropriate.
(viii) Receive the annual budget of Income and Expenditure, as approved by the Executive Board.
(ix) Advise the Executive Board on any such matter as the Executive Board may from time to time determine.
(x) Undertake and discharge any other such duties as the Executive Board and The Council may from time to time jointly determine.