A) Association Award

Status: Awarded for exceptional or continuing service beyond club level.

Nominee eligibility: a present or past member of a constituent or former constituent club.

Nominee may be nominated by a retiring National Officer or a retiring National Councillor who has served at least three consecutive years on Council in any capacity except as a  ‘caretaker’.

A nominator may not make any more than one nomination in four consecutive years.

The nominator must lodge an appropriately worded citation with the National Secretary who may request additional information.

The nomination must have been approved by a majority of the National President, National Vice-President, National Secretary and National Sales & Marketing Officer.

Such approval will not be put into effect unless it is ratified by Council.

The National Secretary, in order to maintain consistency of awards criteria, shall keep a formal record of citation wordings (whether approved for award or not) and award recipients.

The award is only available to ratified nominees and can only be ordered by the National Sales & Marketing Officer.

The cost of the award is to be borne by the Association.

Association Award physical description:   

2mm orange, 5mm green, 16mm orange,

5mm green, 2mm orange stripes

(See Regalia Guidelines)

A fob jewel. Ribbon appearance and colours as above. At top is a gold coloured name bar inscribed “ASSOCIATION AWARD”

on two lines and enamel infilled in dark blue. Fob is the standard 41 Club jewel and is suspended from the bottom of the ribbon. The back of the jewel is to be inscribed, unless Council decides otherwise, as follows: on the first two lines with the recipient’s forename and surname and the year it is awarded, and on the next two lines with “FOR SERVICES TO 41 CLUB”, all in capital letters.

B) Service Award

Status: Awarded for exceptional or continuing service of a club member to :-

i) his club(s),

ii) a National Officer(s)

iii) a National Councillor(s).

It is not to be awarded to a National Officer, National Councillor or Honorary position holders on Council.

Nominee eligibility: a present or past member of a constituent club.

Nominee may be nominated by :-

i) the Secretary or Chairman (or President if it is not the custom of a club to appoint a Chairman) of a constituent 41 Club on club notepaper, ii) a National Officer or iii) a National Councillor, as relative to ‘Status’ above.

The nominator must lodge an appropriately worded citation with the National Councillor of the club member’s Region who may request additional information.

The nomination must have been approved by the National Councillor of the club member’s Region and notified to the National Secretary.

Such approval will not be put into effect unless it is ratified by Council.

The National Secretary, in order to maintain consistency of awards criteria, shall keep a formal record of citation wordings (whether approved for award or not) and award recipients.

The award is only available to ratified nominees and can only be ordered by the National Sales & Marketing Officer.

The cost of the award is to be borne by the nominee’s club in the case of nomination by the club as i) above, or by the Association in the case of ii) or iii) above.

Service Award physical description: 

10mm blue, 10mm red, 10mm blue  stripes

(See Regalia Guidelines)

A fob jewel. Ribbon appearance and colours as above.

At top is a gold coloured name bar inscribed “SERVICE AWARD” on two lines and enamel infilled in dark blue. Fob is the standard 41 Club jewel and is suspended from the bottom of the ribbon. It is recommended that the back of the jewel be inscribed with suitable wording such as the recipient’s forename and surname and the year it is awarded, and a brief description of why it is awarded, all in capital letters.

Notes:

1) The highest award the Association can bestow is Life Honorary Member.

2) The Service Award is no longer available for general purchase, thus there is no longer any award available for ‘ordinary’ 41 Club members to make personal  awards.

National Secretary

June 2008