New constitution

[Jim Webster]

This doesn’t fit well with my recollection, especially the part about it going to the Operating Procedures. This would have rung a bell with me. I'm not sure Section 16 on eligibility was to be removed from the PNC (Proposed New Constitution) either - I thought it had been remitted to a continuation of the SGM.

I did indeed say that. The rationale, which I also said at the time, was that the reason for this proposal to remove Eligibility from the PNC was the confusion and lack of clarity at the meeting regarding the FIDE position on the allocation of national codes. That it would be better to address the matter as an Operating Procedure and could then be potentially re-introduced into the Constitution at a later date.

I also recall that it was suggested that yourself (Walter) and Alastair White put your views together with the concept of putting together a workable set of Eligibility criteria combining the proposals you and the PNC offered.

... it is equivalent to the proposal in the PNC, in that CS management will decide the selection criteria themselves later, without putting the criteria to a formal vote.

This is not true, we the CWP, have always maintained that any Operating Procedure would be presented to Council and ratified at either an AGM or SGM and would be just as binding in its authority as any part of the Constitution.

The constitution is designed to define who we are and what we do, but not the fine detail on how we do it. Hence the rationale for creating and maintain Operating Procedures.