Membership

Membership

6. The Parties shall be and remain permanent members of the Scottish Joint Industry Board.

7. The members of the Scottish Joint Industry Board, other than the Parties, shall be divided into the following two classes:

(a) Employer participants    

(b) Employee participants

8. No person shall be admitted as an employer participant or (as the case may be) as an employee participant of the Scottish Joint Industry Board unless and until:

a) there shall have been delivered to the Scottish Joint Industry Board an application in writing in that behalf, in such form and signed by or on behalf of such person in such manner as the National Board may from time to time prescribe;  and

(b) the National Board (whose decision shall be conclusive) shall have satisfied itself that such person is for the time being engaged in the Industry in the capacity of an employer or (as the case may be) of an employee; and

(c) such person shall have paid to the Scottish Joint Industry Board such sum (if any) as may be payable by way of entrance fee.

(d) no person shall be admitted either as an employer participant or as an employee participant of the Scottish Joint Industry Board without the prior sanction in that behalf of a resolution of the National Board, and the National Board shall have an absolute discretion (without being obliged to give any reasons for the mode of exercise thereof) either to refuse to admit or to admit any person either as an employer participant or as an employee participant provided that no employer or employee applicant for membership shall be refused admission either as an employer participant or as an employee participant merely because he is not a member of SELECT or (as the case may be) the Union.

9. The National Board may from time to time prescribe entrance fees of such respective sums as it may in its absolute discretion think fit to be payable by persons desiring to be admitted as employer participants and employee participants respectively of the Scottish Joint Industry Board, provided that no entrance fee shall be payable in respect of any admission to membership pursuant to any such application.

10. (a) The Scottish Joint Industry Board shall maintain at the office a register, which shall be in the form of one or more lists, containing the names and addresses of all the members for the time being of the Scottish Joint Industry Board.

(b) The said register shall be maintained in three separate parts.  The first part thereof shall contain the names and addresses of the Parties as the permanent members of the Scottish Joint Industry Board, the second part thereof shall contain the names and addresses of all the employer participants of the Scottish Joint Industry Board and shall state whether each such participant is or is not a member of SELECT, and the third part thereof shall contain the names and addresses of all the employee participants of the Scottish Joint Industry Board and shall state whether each such participant is or is not a member of the Union.

(c) The parties shall be bound to supply the Scottish Joint Industry Board with such information regarding their own respective memberships as the Scottish Joint Industry Board may from time to time require with a view to ensuring that the said register is maintained in accordance with paragraph (b) of this Rule.

(d) The said register shall be open at all reasonable times to inspection by all members of the Scottish Joint Industry Board.