NS Rugby Board Executive Council wrote:In my last act as Acting NSRB President, I wanted to put forth an amended version of the NSRB Governing Document for vote by all members to approve. The amendments are minor and refer to the elimination of a World Cup for Rugby Sevens in favor of the Series cycle of tournaments. The changes have been shown in bold in the following version:
NS Rugby Board Governing Document
The NS Rugby Board (hereafter NSRB) governs the World Cups of rugby union, rugby league, and the Series of rugby sevens in NS Sports.
Membership of the NSRB and of its Union Section, League Section, or Sevens Section is granted to all nations that posted a roster in the last completed Rugby Union World Cup (RWC), Rugby League World Cup (RLWC), or Rugby Sevens Series of Tournaments, respectively. (The Rugby Sevens Series International is treated as the first R7WC.) A single player controlling two or more NSRB member nations may only vote through one of them on any given question.
The NSRB as a whole select the hosts of each RWC, RLWC, and R7 Series of Tournaments. The NSRB Sections also elect a Vice President periodically, after a cycle of three or more World Cups including at least one of each of the two types of Cups has been completed, and one cycle of NSRB sanctioned sevens tournaments. All NSRB members entered into the tournament may vote on host bids, but only the members of a Section may vote for that section's Vice President.
At the first election of all Section Vice Presidents, the Union Section VP shall be designated as NSRB President with the League Section VP as First Vice President and the Sevens Section VP as Second Vice President. At the second such election, these posts are assigned in the order League-Sevens-Union, and at the third such election Sevens-Union-League.
The President of the NSRB opens signup threads for the two World Cups and oversees selection of their hosts, (NSRB Sevens tournament sign ups are run by their respective approved hosts), organises the election of Section Vice Presidents as called for above, organises votes on properly proposed amendments to this document as stated below, and chairs the Executive Council for the resolution of emergencies.
The Vice Presidents of the NSRB take up the duties of the President in sequence, First then Second, when that officer becomes temporarily or permanently unable or unwilling to perform the above duties. Both also serve on the Executive Council for the resolution of emergencies.
NSRB members shall not vote in a host bid election or Section Vice President election where they are a candidate. The President or acting President shall appoint another NSRB member to supervise balloting when they are a candidate.
A two-thirds majority of those voting is required to approve amendments to this document, which must first be proposed and endorsed in the current rugby discussion thread by three persons who each represent a different section. All NSRB members are eligible to vote on amendments.
Votes may be submitted here to this thread by members. Should there be confusion on your current status of membership, please TG The UFF of Hutanjia for clarification, or check the previous post about President and VP elections.
Stay tuned for NSRB President and VP results after this post. Host bid for RLWC 16 will be posted momentarily in that respective sign up thread.
Don't forget this, folks. Also, don't forget to get those RLWC host bids in.
