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Page 24 of 26 NOMADS GOLF CLUB – SOUTH AFRICA CONSTITUTION Each Member Club shall nominate a Club Coordinator who shall attend to the local coordination of its Members and arrange for their attendance at the National Tournament in collaboration with the National Coordinator. The National Council or National Management Committee shall decide the entrance fee payable and the manner in which such Tournament shall be conducted and played. 23.2 During the National Tournament, such competitions shall be held as shall be decided by the National Council from time to time. The National Council shall decide on what trophies shall be awarded to the participants of such competitions. 23.3 A Non-Playing category of Members shall be recognised at National Tournaments. Such Members shall not be entitled to play in the Tournament but shall be entitled to participate in all official Tournament functions including the right to receive all regalia to which playing Members are entitled. Non-Playing Members shall be obliged to pay the Tournament entry fee. The number of Non-Playing Members, if any, shall be determined by the National Coordinator for the Tournament concerned, who shall allocate the number of vacancies per Member Club in accordance with such formula laid down by the National Management Committee from time to time. Selection at Club level of NonPlaying Members shall be at the discretion of Club Coordinators according to such formula as laid down by the Member Club Executive Committee concerned from time to time. 24. INTERPRETATION OF CONSTITUTION AND RULES In case of doubt as to the meaning of any of the Rules of Nomads the interpretation of the National Council shall be binding upon all Members. Any decision of the National Council in terms of this rule shall not affect the validity of anything done in conformity with a decision of the National Council prior to such decision being reversed or altered. 25. WINDING –UP 25.1 Nomads may be wound-up and the property or assets disposed of by a resolution passed at a meeting of the National Council specially called for that purpose by a three-fourths majority of those Members present and eligible to vote. 25.2 The net proceeds of such winding-up shall be awarded to a charity to be nominated by a majority of the National Council provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent a Member Club from distributing such funds as may have been allocated to particular charities prior to the decision to affect a winding-up, and such Member Club shall notwithstanding the fact that such distribution takes place after the decision to wind-up nevertheless be empowered to effect such payments. 25.3 No such resolution to wind-up shall be passed unless notice of the proposal has been given to the National Council and all Member Clubs for a minimum period of 3 (Three) calendar months prior to the date of the meeting. 26. NOMADS ANDREW MENTIS ENDOWMENT FUND COMMITTEE 26.1 There shall be constituted a Club Committee to be known as the Nomads Andrew Mentis Endowment Fund Committee and which shall be chaired by the Club’s Vice-Captain and include the Club’s NAMEF Portfolio holder and any other member nominated and appointed by the Vice-Captain at the outset of his term of office