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Commodore Computer Club (UK)(CCC(UK)).

Club rules:
(1) Membership subscriptions, raising
funds and re-selling items.
(a) All members will pay a membership
fee as follows: \3 for six months, \5
per year and life membership at \30.
This fee will entitle the holder to
free entry to the meetings, and
special limited areas of the website,
such as private forums and exclusive
downloads, should we get anything
exclusive to download. Membership will
always be back-dated to the start of
the month in which the member took out
the subscription, so that everyone
joining in the month of April for one
year will see their membership expire
on the 31st of March the following
year.

(b) We should have a 'Commodore
Computer Club Shop', which will stock
all of the latest hardware mods and
sods for Commodore computers. To stop
the 'Maurice Randall' effect, in which
the club will have to repay people for
not receiving their goods because they
haven't been delivered but have been
paid for, items will only be on sale
if they are in stock.

(c) There will be two prices, one for
members (cost of item + postage and
packing + 10%), and one for none
members (cost + postage and packing +
20%).

(d) Any members that do work for the
club, organising events, donating
items for auction, coding, or are
otherwise active, with exception to
posting on forums and turning up to
meetings, will be considered for free
membership and/or lifetime membership
on merit based only on work they have
done for the club. In certain
instances, will include what they have
contributed overall to Commodore
computing or gaming during their
life-time, should any 'Commodore
legends' show sufficient interest to
join the club.

(2) Events, software and other
developments.
(a) Any money that is raised by the
club should be used primarily for
setting up events, or bolting onto
other events as appropriate. This is
to go towards, or cover costs with van
hire, hotels, food and drink, so the
person or people who are willing to
travelling to these events, man stalls
and generally promote the club and its
work are not be out of pocket as far
as possible.

(b) Profits made from items sold at
events should contribute to cover the
costs of attending, or hosting, and/or
expenses acrude during the event. This
will not include monies raised from
membership subscriptions paid for
during the event.

(c) The club should seek to raise
money for the purpose of developing
hardware and/or software that will
benefit Commodore users in the UK and
world-wide, and that could therefore
be sold through the club Shop.

(d) Payments to developers who are
commissioned to work on behalf of the
club should not be made in advanced or
up front unless otherwise agreed by
the treasurer and chair-person, and
any other two members. This should be
openly discussed with all members
either in private members areas of the
site, or at an organised meeting as
appropriate.

(e) Hardware that is commissioned on
behalf of the club which reaches
production should be sold at a small
profit, and monies raised to put back
into the clubs funds.

(f) If it is agreed that the club
should commission entertainment
software, the productions should be
available to download for free from
the site for members only. Real-media
versions should also be sold through
the shop with non-members able to buy
copies, though at a higher price than
members.

(g) Any software commissioned by the
club will either be purchased
outright, paying the programmer an
agreed fee on completion, or paying a
lesser fee and splitting the profits
at an agreed rate. This should be
discussed on a case-by-case basis. The
chair-person and treasurer, and two
other members, must agree which method
should be implemented.

(3) Meetings and monies
(a) The club should hold an annual
general meeting in which members have
a say in its running, and are able to
make suggestions and table official
club business for the year ahead.
Membership subscriptions should be
reviewed at the annual general
meeting, and any price increases must
be agreed by the chair-person,
treasurer and at least two other
members.

(b) There should be an annual audit of
the clubs finances, with a news-letter
at least every three months. The audit
should be published before the annual
general meeting, and this and the
news-letter should be available to
current members online in the private
member areas. Former members may
request this information, which will
be granted on a case-by-case basis.

(c) Members will be able to attend any
events that organised and run by the
club for free when ever possible,
whilst non-members will pay a small
signing in fee of at least 2.50. With
agreement with other event organisers,
and at events that the club is
attending in an official capacity, we
will work towards getting members a
discounted entry fee.

(d) All monies raised will go back
into club funds.

(4) End of line
(a) If it is apparent that the club is
not running within its means to the
extent that it is likely to fold, or
that legal action against it will lead
to the club being dissolved, all club
assets should be sold or auctioned
off, and members will be refunded
their current subscriptions based on
the length of time they have been
members. The longest-serving paying
members will be refunded first as
appropriate, either particularly or
fully depending on the financial
circumstances at the time. The newer
members, who will be dealt with last.

(b) Personal donations to the club's
funds can never be fully refunded.

Club complaints procedure:
Phase 1: Where a complaint is made
against the club, or one of the club
members, there should initially be a
private apology between the club or
individual and the plaintiff. This
apology should be for 'any undue harm
or upset caused', and will not amount
to an admission of guilt or a
retraction in any way. The club will
not be able to force any of its
members to make this initial apology
except in the instance that the
individual has clearly and admittedly
worked on the clubs behalf in the
matter specifically relating to the
complaint that has been lodged.

Phase 2: The matter should then be
investigated to establish the facts.
If it is deemed that an individual
club member has not been acting on the
clubs behalf with regards to the
specifics of the complaint, then this
becomes a personal matter between the
two parties. The club should therefore
stop any further investigations or
involvement in the matter.

Phase 3: If the complaint lacks any
real evidence, or it is felt that the
findings are not conclusive, then the
matter should be closed. Neither the
club, nor any of its members, should
therefore discuss the matter
publically. All findings should be
reported to the plaintiff, and the
matter should be considered closed
from the club's point of view.

Phase 4: Where a complaint is upheld,
a public apology and/or retraction
should be published through the
official website, and in the
newsletter. The club should also give
the plaintiff the opportunity to give
his or her point of view through the
website and/or newsletter as
appropriate. In this instance, the
case will be considered closed from
the club's point of view unless the
plaintiff wants to take the matter
further through due legal process.

Emergency phase: If at any point
during this process the plaintiff
feels aggrieved to the extent that he
or she instructs a solicitor to take
the matter up against the club or club
members who have clearly being acting
on behalf of the club in this
instance, the club should then
consider its legal position on the
matter, and a meeting should be set up
with the principle members of the club
within two weeks of receiving legal
notice to discuss the matter, and what
to do next. Obviously, one would hope
that any complaint would ever get to
this stage.

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