2023 ANNUAL REPORT

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB 2023 ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS 64 cricketing items/policy. Similarly, with the ECB and other interested organisations. He/she represents the club and is the one who votes (binding the club) on major proposals from the ECB etc. I feel that it is important that the Chair is someone whom the members of the club have shown their trust and backing in, by voting them onto the committee.This does not disallow members placed by the Panel (without club members’ support) who would be eligible after their initial three years term (subject to their being re-elected). Statement Against (General Committee): All members of the General Committee share equal corporate responsibility and accountability in relation to essential requirements such as financial integrity, health and safety and safeguarding and should therefore have equal opportunity to hold this strategic leadership role.This change would undermine the role of Nominated Members and create a two-tier leadership body. In practice, this Rule could become very restrictive when considering candidates for the Chair of the club. For example, following our AGM in 2023, there will be four nominated members and up to three newly elected members joining the General Committee for the first time. In this scenario, only five of the eight members eligible to stand will have any General Committee experience at all. It should then be noted that not all would necessarily be qualified or indeed inclined to stand for this position. Shrinking the pool in this way, therefore, has the potential to greatly restrict our ability to find the most appropriate candidate for this critical role. Amendment Five – (Proposer Mr Evans): Existing: • 5.5 Subject to 5.6 and 5.10, Members of the General Committee who have served three consecutive terms or served for nine years in aggregate at any time (the “MaximumTerm”) may not be re-elected or re-appointed to the General Committee. • 5.10 Members of the General Committee serving at the date these Rules come into force (“Original Members”) that have already served a MaximumTerm, shall be deemed to be serving their second consecutive term of office for the purposes of 5.5 above, allowing them to serve one more term of three years. Such Original Members shall be recognised as being Elected Members within the meaning of the Rules where the context requires (including in relation to eligibility or processes around re-election to the General Committee). Proposal: • 5.10 Delete . • 5.5 Delete ‘…and 5.10’ from first line New: • 5.5 Subject to 5.6, Members of the General Committee who have served three consecutive terms or served for nine years in aggregate at any time (the “Maximum Term”) may not be re-elected or re-appointed to the General Committee. Effect of changes above: Removes the right for members of the General Committee to extend their time beyond the Maximum Term of nine years by virtue of them being Original Members. Statement For (General Committee and Mr Evans): This Rule was always timebound and was put in place to guard against a sudden loss of expertise at General Committee level in a short period of time at the outset of the amendments to the constitution ratified at the 2020 AGM. It only applied to four ‘Original Members’, three of whom have already exercised this right and the final one has chosen not to do so in 2023. It is, therefore, no longer relevant moving forward and can now be removed. Amendment Six – (Proposer General Committee): If Amendment Six is passed, then Amendment Seven will be discounted. Existing: • 5.6 An Elected Member or Nominated Member may serve in excess of the MaximumTerm in the following circumstances: - 5.6.1 if the Member is appointed Chair and the Nominations Panel unanimously votes to extend the Member’s appointment by one year.Any such extension may only be made three times, and is therefore limited to a maximum of three years (and always subject to 5.8); or -5.6.2 if the Nominations Panel unanimously votes that the Member should be re- appointed to the General Committee, due to their exceptional skills or experience being required, or the Club facing exceptional circumstances.Any such re-appointment can only be made once and shall be limited to a maximum of one year; • 5.7 in each case subject to a vote of two-thirds of the Members of the General Committee eligible to vote, at a meeting of the General Committee (anticipated to be in November) prior to the Annual General Meeting at which the Member is due to retire.The Chair andVice-Chair of the Club shall be elected annually by and from the General Committee at its first meeting after the Annual General Meeting. If there is an equality of votes the chair of the meeting shall have the casting vote. • 5.8 The Chair may serve in the role for a period of no more than six years, and always subject to the term limits in 5.5 and 5.6 above Proposal: • 5.6 Delete ‘… in the following circumstances:’ from lines one and two • 5.6 Add ‘…if the Nominations Panel unanimously votes that the Member should be re-appointed to the General Committee, due to their exceptional skills or experience being required, or the Club facing exceptional circumstances.Any such re-appointment can only be made once and shall be limited to a maximum of one year;’