LONDON INSURANCE OFFICES DARTS ASSOCIATION
Est. 1938
RULES
1.The Association
1a.The Association shall be called the London Insurance Offices Darts Association.
1b.The Association shall consist of member clubs/teams from the insurance industry only, unless otherwise agreed by member clubs by the voting in at an Annual General Meeting of the Association of a member club whose core business is not Insurance related.
1c.The objects of the Association shall be to promote and maintain interest in the game of darts and to provide such organisation as would ensure the maintenance of a high standard of play and behaviour among member clubs/teams.
2.Executive Committee
2a.The Officers of the Association shall be the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, General Secretary, Treasurer, Results Secretary, Competition Secretary(ies) and Registration Secretary or any other position the Executive Committee deem appropriate. These Officers shall form an Executive Committee for the general purpose of the running of the Association.
2b.The Executive Committee shall have the powers:-
2b(i) to consider applications for membership of the Association and to make recommendations to a General Meeting of the Association.
2b(ii) to appoint sub-Committees such as they deem necessary to consider
and report on any questions the Committee may refer to them and to delegate to such sub-Committee such of its powers as may be necessary for the purpose.
2b(iii) to arrange League championships and knock-out competitions with
power to reject without stating the reason therefore any entry of member clubs/teams in connection therewith and to delegate to the Competition Secretary(ies) such of its powers as may be necessary for the running of the competitions in full detail.
2b(iv)to consider and submit for approval of all member clubs at a General
Meeting any proposed amendments to the Rules and any addition thereto and deletions therefrom.
2b(v) to exercise control over all the financial affairs of the Association.
2b(vi)to arbitrate on any deviation from the Rules and/or complaints by
member clubs/teams.
2c.The Executive Committee shall meet at such time as any of the Officers shall consider necessary. An attendance of at least 60% of the Officers shall be required to form a quorum.
3.Annual General Meeting and Election of Officers
3a.The Annual General Meeting shall be held not later than the first week in July each year, at which time the Annual Report and duly audited Statement of Accounts shall be presented. The date of the A.G.M. shall be notified to all member clubs by the General Secretary not less than 14 days before the Meeting. The Officers and an Auditor shall be appointed at the A.G.M. by a majority vote of the member clubs present. They shall hold office until the next A.G.M. and shall be eligible for re-election.
3b.Each member club representative shall have one vote. In the event of a vote being equal the executive committee shall have the casting vote.
3c.An attendance of at least 60% of the member clubs shall be required to form a quorum at any Meeting.
3d.A representative of each member club must attend any Meeting. Failure to do so will entail a fine of £15.
4.Extraordinary General Meeting
4a.The Executive Committee may call an Extraordinary General Meeting at such times as may be considered necessary. The General Secretary shall give not less than 14 days notice of any Meeting.
4b.An Extraordinary General Meeting may also be called by any member club of the Association through the General Secretary who should give the required notice, provided that this request is supported by five other member clubs.
4c.Each member club representative shall have one vote. In the event of a vote being equal the executive committee shall have the casting vote.
4d.An attendance of at least 60% of the member clubs shall be required to form a quorum at any Meeting.
4e.A representative of each member club must attend any Meeting. Failure to do this will entail a fine of £15.
5.Property
The property of the Association shall for all purposes be held by the Chairman, General Secretary, Treasurer and other officers as may be necessary in trust for the Association. The Chairman will be deemed to be the legal owner of such property.
6.Rules Governing Membership
6a.Member clubs shall pay an annual subscription/registration fee and competition entry fee, as agreed at the Annual General Meeting of the Association.
6b.No member club will be admitted if any fees and/or fines are outstanding from any previous season. All subscriptions/registration fees are payable before the commencement of the season. Competition fees and fines are payable as directed by the Treasurer/Competition Secretary(ies).
6c(i) All players must be employees, former employees or pensioners of
an insurance office and registered with the Association.
The only exception to this is where a member club has been voted in
at an Annual General Meeting of the Association and whose core
business is not Insurance related.
Only current employees of such a club and those players covered by
rule 6c(iii) shall be allowed to play and be registered with the
Association.
6c(ii)Any player leaving an insurance office and joining the staff of another insurance office after having played in a League fixture is eligible to play for the remainder of the season either for the former or the new member club, but not for both.
6c(iii)Any club may register any player who currently works for, is a former
employee of, or is a pensioner of an insurance office that does not
have a team in the League. No formal dispensation request shall be required.
6c(iv)If a registered player leaves their current employer and joins a
company with a team in the League, that player can choose whether to join the team of their new employer or to stay with their existing team, provided the player has registered for their existing team for three or more concurrent seasons. If at any time the player joins the team of their new employer, the player cannot then revert back to registering with their existing team.
6c(v)If a registered player leaves their current employer and joins a
company with a team in the League and has not been registered for
their existing teams for three or more concurrent seasons, they may
only be able to remain with their existing team with the agreement in
writing of the secretary of the member club of the players new
employer.
6c(vi) Interpretation of what constitutes an employee, former employee or
pensioner and all other matters regarding Rules 6c(i–v) shall be at
the sole discretion of the Executive Committee, whose decision shall
be final.
6c(vii)By the end of the third week of the season, the registration form for
the season in question shall be sent to the Registration Secretary. A
minimum of 8 players must be registered on this form. The
submission of this form will be deemed as confirming that all players
have worked in the insurance industry at some stage in their career
or are covered under the derogation to Rule 6c (i). Failure to submit
the registration form on time will entail a fine of £15 and additionally
£15 for each subsequent week confirmation fails to be submitted. The
Committee retain the discretion to consider failure to adhere to this Rule and continuous failure could result in deduction of points or expulsion from the League.
6c(viii)Any players not registered by the end of the third week of the season
may be registered via the appropriate space on the result sheet of the
match in which the player in question first appears. Players registered
by such means will be deemed as confirming that the player(s) in
question has/have worked in the insurance industry at some stage in
their career or are covered under the derogation to Rule 6c(i).
6c(ix)In the event that an ineligible player is found to have played in any
team of that member club, the executive committee shall decide upon
appropriate disciplinary action which may include expulsion of that
team from the League.
6c(x)Notwithstanding rules 6c(i-ix) above it is agreed thateach CLUB (not team) shall be permitted to register, on their initial registration form only, up to 2 players who have no association with the insurance industry.
Once the registration form is submitted, no changes, swaps, additions or substitution of such players shall be allowed during the season.
Only such players, together with those who have worked in the insurance industry at some stage in their career or are covered under the derogation to Rule 6c(i) shall be permitted to enter association knockout competitions, subject to each competitions’ entry requirements (see rules of play 18)
6d.All players of multi-team member clubs must be registered in writing and the application dated for a specific team (i.e. "A", "B" or "C" etc.) with a minimum number of 8 players in each team. All subsequent registrations are to be sent to the Registration Secretary.
6e.In the event of a member club/team withdrawing from or being expelled from the League during a season, all matches already played by the member club/team shall be declared void and the League tables shall be amended accordingly.
Except where the withdrawal or expulsion of such member club/team occurs during the course of the second half of the season, in which case the results of all matches played during the first half of the season by the member club/team shall stand.
Where necessary the Executive Committee shall decide on the allocation of points with regard to those League matches not played during the first half of the season which involve the withdrawing or expelled member club/team.
The League tables will be amended accordingly.
7.Rules Governing League and Competition Matches
7a.All League and knock-out competition matches shall be played within the environs of the City.
7b.Before the commencement of each season, all member club teams shall nominate a specific night of the week on which to play home matches. Any subsequent alteration must be notified to the General Secretary and to the Secretaries of member clubs with teams in that Division as soon as possible prior to the change.
7c.The arranging of League fixtures shall be the responsibility of the representative of the "home" team, who must contact the "away" team at least two working days before the match is to be played, to confirm the fixture.
7d(i) Result sheets must be signed for League matches.
All results shall be sent to the relevant Secretary within 48 hours of the conclusion of each match, wherever possible this should bescanned and sent via email. If the result sheet of a League match issigned by a representative of each member club, it must be assumed that the match was satisfactorily arranged and the score indicated willstand.
For Fours Group knock-out competitions a signing in sheet must be signed by all participating players.
7d(ii)Persistent breach of this Rule will be reviewed by the Executive Committee and appropriate action taken.
7e(i)Not more than two senior team registered players (e.g. one from the "A" team, one from the "B" team playing for the "C" team) may play in a lower team in any one match, and not more than three players may play in a higher team in any one match. However where the teams in question are within the same division this shall be limited to two players in all cases
7e(ii) Senior team registered players are limited to playing no more than three games for lower teams in any one season in total.
7e(iii)No player may play more than five games in any one season in a
higher team than that team for which he or she is registered,
However where the teams in question are within the same division this shall be limited to three games in any one season in all cases
7e(iv)Players may be re-registered between teams up to the end of the first half of the season. The re-registration shall be in writing and dated to the Registration Secretary.
7e(v)The maximum number of League matches playable by any single player shall be no more than 3 in excess of the total number of matches playable within the whole season of the division they are registered in.
i.e.
Divisions with 9 teams maximum games for season = 19 (16 + 3)
Divisions with 10 teams maximum games for season = 21 (18 + 3)
Divisions with 11 teams maximum games for season = 23 (20 + 3)
Divisions with 12 teams maximum games for season = 25 (22 + 3)
Where any re-registration of a player takes place between teams (as per iv above) the maximum games playable by such a player shall be the lower of the totals calculated using the above formula.
7e(vi)No player shall be permitted to take part in more than one league match on any one night
7f.In League matches the winning team will be awarded two points. In the event of a draw, each team will be awarded one point. Should two or more teams in any Division of the League be equal on points at the end of the season, the team having the better games difference shall take precedence. In the event of the games difference being equal, the result of head to head matches in the league are to be considered and if still equal then, the Executive Committee shall order the member clubs concerned to play a deciding match on a neutral board.
7g.All League matches must be played within the allocated period and the Results Secretary must be notified within 48 hours of all League matches not played within the allocated period, other than provide for in Rule 8 j(i). All matches should commence not later than 18:30 unless agreement to an alternative start time has been made beforehand by the Secretaries/Captains of the member clubs/teams concerned.
7h.Any team failing to complete their fixtures by defaulting on more than threematches may forfeit the right of entry the following season.
7i .League and all knock-out competition entries are to be sent to the General or Competition Secretary by the date specified or they will not be accepted. Fixtures to start in the last week of September (or such date otherwise agreed by the Executive Committee).
7j(i)No matches shall be postponed other than for circumstances as approved inwritingon or prior to the due date of the match in question by the Results Secretary or another member of the Executive Committee if they are not available. The Results Secretary should be contacted in the first instance by the team seeking a postponement for approval. If a League match is not played during the allocated week, the defaulting member club/team will surrender the two points to the other member club/team with a games allocation of 0-16. The Secretary of the non-defaulting member club/team shall submit a result sheet with a 16-0 score shown to the Results Secretary. A photocopy of this result sheet will then be sent by the Results Secretary to the secretary of the defaulting member club/team. If at the end of the season the non-defaulting member club/team is level on points with other member clubs/teams in the same Division then, for the purpose of establishing final Divisional placings, all 16-0 scores shall be ignored and replaced by a "games for" total equal to the average "games for" score of the non-defaulting member club/team over their season's un-conceded games, provided however that the final figure shall not be less than 9 and that the "games against" score shall be the balance of 16 games.
7j(ii)Where a match is postponed in accordance with rule 7j (i) above a new date for the postponed match shall be agreed between the clubs involved and advised accordingly to the Results Secretary. This then becomes the allocated week for this match and the non postponement rule 7j (i) would be reapplied to this new date.
7j(iii)The executive committee shall not enter into any correspondence into any fixture not played in its allocated week and not agreed for postponement in accordance with rule 7j (i) above. Should any disputes occur over any such matches they will be left as unplayed matches and no points will be awarded to either side.
7j(iv)If matches are not played and the non-defaulting member club is the home member club and is out of pocket regarding catering expenses, the offending member club must reimburse them.
7k.It is the responsibility of all member clubs to ensure that their players compete at a high level of sportsmanship and behaviour towards opponents during and after any competition. Any complaints regarding breaches of expected standards shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Committee whose decision shall be final.
7l.Any issues not covered by the foregoing Rules shall be considered by the Executive Committee, who shall consider each question on its merits and whose decision, provided that no precedent is established, shall be final.
RULES OF PLAY
RP1.All matches will be played on a standard darts board numbered 1 to 20 that shall be between 5 feet6 inches and 5 feet8 inches from the floor to the centre. Darts shall be thrown with the toes of the player behind a line measured along the floor at a distance of 7 feet 9 ¼ inches from a plumb line from the face of the board.