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The Breeding & Registration Commission
Proposals to the FIFe General Assembly 2009
2. Eligibility and Membership requirements
1. a member must have a FIFe registered cattery name.
2. a member must be at least 18 years old and must be a member in good standing, for at least 5
calendar years, of a National FIFe mMember.
3. a member must have bred and registered with a National FIFe mMember at least 3 litters of the
appropriate breed within the previous 5 calendar years.
4. a member must either have:
bred at least one Grand Int. Champion or Grand Int. Premier of the appropriate breed
or
A member must have exhibited a cat of the appropriate breed owned by him/herself at FIFe
shows at least 3 times per year within the previous 3 calendar years.
A National FIFe Member may grant exceptions regarding the requirements 3 or 4 for
membership of a Breed Council on a motivated application from the breeder.
FIFe judges qualified for the relevant breed are eligible for membership without any condition.
Membership by eligible individuals in any breed may be obtained by submitting to the General
Secretary a completed membership application to the National FIFe Member. form and paying the
appropriate fee(s) to FIFe's treasurer.
This application must be certified by the National FIFe mMember.
Membership applications for any given year will not be accepted after August 1 of that year.
Upon receipt of the membership application and fee(s), the General Secretary Breed Council
Coordinator will place the member’s name on the membership list.
A membership runs from January 1 to December 31.
Membership in more than one Breed Council is permitted.
6 3. Fees
The annual registration fee (January 1 to December 31) shall be set up by the General Assembly to
help to cover expenses for the operation of the Breed Councils.
The General Assembly shall set an annual registration fee.
For inclusion in the official Breed Council members list, Breed Council members are required
to pay the annual fee, which is listed in Annex 1 of the General Rules.
4. The National FIFe Member’s Responsibility
The National FIFe Member is responsible for:
forwarding applications to the Breed Council Coordinator
submitting the fees of its Breed Council members to the FIFe Treasurer by the 31
March each year
certifying each year that Breed Council membership requirements 1, 2 and 3 in article
2 are fulfilled.
If a Breed Council member’s membership in a FIFe organisation ceases during the year or
his cattery name in the Book of Cattery Names of FIFe is deleted, the National FIFe Member
must inform the Breed Council Coordinator. The Breed Council member will be deleted from
the Breed Council membership list.