The League consists of clubs in
and around Scunthorpe providing teams which are formed
into four divisions plus a ladies division. League
matches and competitions are played according to the laws
of the English Bowls Federation (EBF) and SDBL local rules.
OUTDOOR LEAGUE AGM 2018
The Annual General Meeting of the Scunthorpe
and District Bowls League (outdoor) was held in late February
at the Scunthorpe Indoor Bowls Centre and most of the outdoor
Clubs in the League were represented. The outgoing President
) welcomed everyone to the meeting. Various
reports were received from the Officers and these were followed
by the election of Officers for the League.
The new President for 2018 was confirmed as
Rena Markham(Shires)
Vince Hardie (Cemetery Road) was re-elected
as the League Secretary
Treasurer - Vince Blackwell (Crowle)
Fixture Coordinator - Tony Pollard (Railway
Sports)
Fixtures, Results and Competitions Secretary
- Ray Robinson (Scotter)
THE SCUNTHORPE & DISTRICT BOWLS
LEAGUE CONSTITUTION REVISED 02/05/2018
1. The name of the League will be THE SCUNTHORPE & DISTRICT
BOWLS LEAGUE.
2. The objects of the Bowls League are:
-to encourage and promote the game of bowls in
Scunthorpe and District
-to promote competitions for that purpose
-to secure uniformity in the style of playing the
game throughout the district
-to encourage a sporting and social understanding
between the clubs in the district and the Bowls League.
3. Any properly constituted bowls club whose
playing area for home fixtures is situated within a twelve
mile radius of Scunthorpe Police H.Q. is entitled to apply
to join the league and will be admitted subject to the Committee’s
approval.
All clubs which are currently members
of the League and outside this radius will retain their membership.
4. a) All clubs will pay annual entrance fees
for each team entered into the League and competitions.
All such fees and monies for the current
year in respect of League and competitions will be paid to
the Treasurer and all such entry fees and monies be discussed
each year at the AGM.
b) Each club will receive a statement of account in
June showing all monies due to be paid for the
current season. This account is to be paid by 31st July or
earlier as directed by the Management Committee.
5. The Officers of the League are President,
President-Elect, General Secretary, Treasurer, Results Secretary,
K/O Competitions Secretary, Fixtures Coordinator plus three
elected Committee Members from the League’s clubs. These Officers
and Committee Members will form the Management Committee which
will deal with the business of the League and hold a minimum
of three meetings in a year. They will be elected to hold office
for one year at the Annual General Meeting (AGM). The quorum
for this Committee is five members.
6. a) The AGM will be held not later than the
last day of February each year. Each member club in subscription
will be sent a notice of an AGM or a Special General Meeting
(SGM)., as the case may be, not less than twenty-eight days
before the date of the meeting. The notice will include an
agenda containing all items for discussion or decision.
- Motions for consideration by the AGM must be submitted
in writing by member clubs and must be received by the
General Secretary by 1st December each year with Member
Clubs being sent the Proposals and Motions together with
the Date of the AGM, to arrive not less than twenty-eight
days before the date of the AGM to allow time for the
Clubs to discuss the Propositions and Motions prior to
the AGM..
- Such motions will be voted on at the AGM. The Management
Committee and any eight member clubs will form a quorum.
d) Each member club is entitled to
one vote and the President or Presiding Officer at the Meeting
will have a casting vote. Voting will be by a show of hands
unless the President or Presiding Officer directs otherwise.
7. a) The General Secretary will keep a record
of all business transacted at all meetings.
- The Treasurer will keep a record of all income and expenditure
, and submit accounts for the year ending 31st December
to be audited.
- The audited accounts for the League will be circulated
at the AGM.
8. Each member club, team and individual is
bound by this Constitution and The Laws of the Game in all
internal league and competition fixtures. (Ref. rule 12 b)
9. The Management Committee are empowered
to make, repeal or amend bye-laws as they may consider necessary
for the good conduct of the League. Such bye-laws will have
effect until confirmed or until set aside at the next Annual
General Meeting.
10. In the event of matters not provided for
by this Constitution, the Management Committee will have the
power to decide thereon pending the decision of the next Annual
General Meeting.
11. Permanent amendments to these rules can
only be made at the AGM of the League or at a SGM.
A SGM will be called within twenty-one days of the receipt
by the General Secretary of a written request from the Management
Committee or no less than six voting clubs. The Meeting will
deal only with the matter of which notice is given in the request.
12. a) The League will consist of divisions to
be known as first; second; third; fourth and a Ladies division.
The Results Secretary in consultation with other committee
members can adjust the format of the divisions if necessary.
This means that more than two teams could go up or down to
an adjacent division to equate the number of teams in each
division or to change the number of divisions
- Play will be in accordance with the Laws Of The Game of
the English Bowls Federation except that EBF rules are replaced
by SDBL local rules 13b and 16a.
c) The general principle of promotion and
relegation will apply
.At the end of the season, the two teams that have secured
the least league points in each of divisions one, two, three
will be relegated to the division immediately below, and the
two teams that have secured the most league points in each
of the divisions two, three and four will be promoted to the
adjacent divisions above.
In the event of two or more teams tying for top or second
place with an equal number of points in any division of the
League at the end of the season then those places will
be decided by the highest positive shots difference total
of the involved teams for the whole season and then
between the teams if still equal. If more than two teams are
involved in relegation issues the same method in reverse will
apply. i.e. shot difference for the whole season decides, etc.
Trophies will be presented to the winning teams of divisions
one, two, three, four and the ladies division each year.
Five runners up shields will also be presented.
Four points for a match win and two points for each winning
rink, with two points for a match draw and one point per drawing
rink, will count in each match with the exception of the Ladies
Division which shall be Two points for a match win and two
points for each winning rink, with one point for a match draw
and one point per drawing rink.
Competitions held annually by the league will be as follows:
Hospital Cup: Men’s Singles 4 bowls 21 shots.
Lysaght’s Cup: Ladies Singles 4 bowls 21 shots
Star Shield: Open Triples 2 bowls 21 ends.
Jubilee Cup: Ladies Pairs 4 bowls 21 ends.
Hunter Cup: Men’s pairs 4 bowls 21 ends
Corus Cup : Mixed Pairs 4 Bowls 21 ends
Eland Trophy: Club Team K.O.-Three players in each of 4 rinks.
Aggregate at 21 ends will
Decide the winner..
All trophies are perpetual trophies and cannot be won outright.
Trophies are to be returned, clean and intact, to the K/O
Competitions Secretary by the 20th August of the following
year.
The Eland Trophy Final will be played on a neutral green
organized by the K/O Competition Secretary and will be
controlled by a Competent Person appointed by the Club staging
the Final. Decisions concerning the match situation are the
sole responsibility of the Competent Person
12d) Dress Code
The Dress Code for Scunthorpe and District Bowls League matches
shall be predominately White or Club Shirts above the Waist
with Grey Trousers for the Men and either A Grey Skirt or Grey
Trousers for Ladies. Jumpers/Cardigans or Windcheaters if worn
may be White or Club Colours. The Dress Code for the Scunthorpe
and District Bowls League Knockout Competitions will be the
same as the League games up to and including the Semi Finals
for Competitors and Markers. The Dress Code for the Individual
K/O Competition Finals will be strictly Whites including the
Markers. Should Club Shirts be worn then all players from that
Club must wear Club Shirts in that Competition. The Dress Code
for the Eland Trophy Final Shall be as the League Matches.
13a) Matches may only be abandoned for inclement weather
if both Home and Away Captains reach a mutual agreement during
the match, or in the event of the green being unfit for play
the Home Bowls Club Greenkeeper, Representative of the Greenkeeper
or Home Team Captain so decide before the start of play. In
the event of abandonment of a match forinclement weather and
the required number of ends that constitute a result have not
been played then the Home team must offer three dates, only
one of which may be at a weekend, and the re-arrangement should
be notified to the Results Secretary immediately by the Home
Bowls Club and must be within four weeks of the original date
13b)An arrangement by teams to play less than twenty-one
ends in a match in Divisions One, Two, Three or Four
and sixteen ends in the Ladies Division cannot be made before
a match. In the event of any match being unfinished,
through bad weather or other causes over which neither team
has control, the result will stand if at least an average of
eleven ends have been played in the League Divisions one, two,
three and four and in the Ladies Division the result will stand
if at least an average of nine ends have been played”
13 c)The home club Official should submit a correctly
completed match result sheet dulysigned
by the Captains of both teams, to avoid being penalised
by the possible deduction of points, to
the League Results Secretary, by post, by
email, by hand or posted in the Scunthorpe Indoor
Bowls Centre special letter box, to arrive not later than
seven days after the match is played. A
result sheet received by the League Results Secretary
after the seven days allowed will result in the offending
team having two points deducted from the total points accrued
to that date. The Results Secretary may use discretion in
applying rule 13c) if a delay was outside a Club’s control.
Once a game has commenced, if a player decides to discontinue
for any reason other than ill health or injury, when a
substitute may be brought on in accordance with the EBF Rules
the remaining players should complete the game, otherwise the
rink will be conceded to their opponents with a penalty of
2 points and 10 shots or the deficit at the time, whichever
is the greater If a team decides to discontinue playing once
the match has started or refuse to play before the match starts
then the whole match will be conceded to their opponents, with
a penalty of 12 points and 40 shots in Divisions 1,2,3 or
4 and in the Ladies Division a penalty of 6 points and 20
shots or the deficit at the time in all divisions, whichever
is the greater”
14. Weekday League matches should begin at 6.30pm
and not later than 6.45pm from the start of the SDBL season
until the second Sunday of August and then, until the end of
the season, matches will start at 6.00pm. If a team is unable
to start a match at 6.00pm then that team is responsible for
contacting the opponent, with a minimum of seven days notice,
to arrange a different start time.
15. a) A player who has played in Scunthorpe & District
League Matches, in any division, for one club will not
be eligible to play for any other club during that season ,
once the player has played more than three Scunthorpe & District
Bowls League Matches for that club .This only applies once
per season for the player
. The Management Committee may use its discretion
in applying this rule if, for example, a change of address
would make travelling difficult for that player to play for
the original club.
b) Where a club has two teams in one division, they must
play each other, home and away, during the first six matches
of the season.
c) If a Club has more than one team in a division then,
if a player shortage would occur in either team, up to three
players (two in the Ladies Division) maybe imported from the
other divisional team. There is no limit to the number of times
that this option maybe used provided that each time the imported
players are asterisked on the result sheet and do not play
in the same rink.
It is not required for the team squads to be listed for the
League records. All points gained by a team which exceeds the
maximum number of imported players in any match will be forfeited
and may be wholly or partly awarded to the opponents subject
to a ruling by the Committee.
d) A Club with a ladies team may now invite ladies from
a non-Ladies Division club to
complete its ladies team. The guest players cannot play in
a different club’s ladies team in the SDBL in the same season.
Asterisks are placed against the names on the result sheet
to show the guest players.
This rule is meant to be simple to operate and does not require
the players to be full members of the adopted clubs but match
fees may serve as temporary membership.
The guest players must not allow their playing requirements
at their own clubs to be impeded in any way.
16. a) A team will consist of 12 players in 4 rinks of three;
the minimum is 8 players but each of the 4 rinks must consist
of at least 2 players in Divisions One; Two; Three and Four
of the League. A Ladies League team will be 6 players in
2 rinks of three playing 16 ends, 3 wood Triples to EBF Rules;
the minimum is 4 players with at least 2 in each rink. No reduction
in the number of rinks is allowed. The sequence of play on
a rink should the rink be a player short, therefore two players
versus three players shall be lead, lead, second; lead, lead,
second followed by the Skips with the lead from the winner
of the previous end going first.
16.b) The postponement of a league fixture is allowed,
but must be by the mutual agreement of both clubs. The fixture
is to be rearranged and played within four weeks of the original
date and the home club to notify the Results Secretary of the
change and the new date.
However, the postponement of a league fixture is not allowed
if a team is short of players but able to field at least the
minimum number of players as detailed in rule 16a.
SEE 16b1
All fixtures must be completed by the End of the current
Season (second Friday in September unless the Management
Committee decides that the result of a postponed match would
have no effect on the final divisional table positions
16 b1) A Match being Cancelled and
Re-arranged due to a Bowls Club being unable to raise a full
team may only be Cancelled Once and Must be re-arranged and
played within two weeks of the original date to avoid being
penalised. Should this not be possible then the match should
be played in accordance with the S&DBL Constitution Rule
16a). The Club cancelling must offer three Dates to their
opponents in accordance with Rule 13a
A Bowls Club will only be allowed to Cancel a Maximum of
Three matches per season due to the inability to raise a full
team and must notify the Scunthorpe & District Bowls League
Fixture and Results Secretary Ray Robinson that they are doing
so.
16C) All fixtures must be completed before the closing
date of the season. The result of any unfulfilled matches
shall be decided upon by the Management Committee of the League
taking into account the circumstances relating to the fixtures
concerned. This may include awarding the game to whichever
team is not at fault (8 points} AND possibly deducting points
(number to be decided by the Management Committee) from the
team deemed to be at fault, or declaring a match void with
no points awarded to either team if both teams are deemed to
be at fault.
17. The Disputes Committee will comprise of the President,
General Secretary, Results Secretary or K/O Competitions Secretary
and two members of the Management Committee from clubs not
involved in the dispute.
. The Management Committee will investigate
and rule on the dispute. (See rule18)
18.a) In the event of the conduct of a club or
member being, in the opinion of the Management Committee, injurious
to the League, then the Management Committee has the power
to suspend or expel the club or member. in
accordance with rule 6d
Before the club or member is suspended or expelled, such
club or member will be given the opportunity to defend themselves
before the Management Committee at a special meeting called
for that purpose. Seven days notice in writing of such a meeting
will be given to the club or member and such notice will specify
the grounds upon which it is sought to suspend or expel that
club or member.
- A club or member suspended or expelled by the Management
Committee may appeal to a Special General Meeting in writing
to the General Secretary within seven days of the date of
the Management Committee Special Meeting at which the club
or member was suspended or expelled,
- All member clubs of the League will be entitled to attend
and vote at the Meeting. The decision of the SGM will be final
and binding.
19A
Recommendation from the SCUNTHORPE & DISTRICT BOWLS
LEAGUE Management Committee to the 2017 AGM was agreed as follows
“ If a Club has more than one team in the Scunthorpe & District
Bowls Leagues they may play players down in other Divisions
but the clubs should be sporting in the use of this procedure
and limit the number of higher division players playing in
the lower divisions in a match.”