A. To acquire and take over all or any part of the assets and liabilities of the present unincorporated body known as Historical Breechloading Smallarms Association.

 

B. To operate. Organise, manage and provide an association to represent those people interested in historical breechloading smallarms including without prejudice to the generality

(i) To encourage the study of the history, development, conservation, preservation and use of breechloading smallarms, ammunition and related items (“the Subject Items”).

 

(ii) To encourage a greater appreciation of the historical importance of the Subject Items

 

(iii) To encourage research into all aspects of the subject and publication of the results thereof.

 

(iv) To advise on the optimum conditions for the use, housing, accommodation and preservation of the Subject Items in public and private hands.

 

(v) To act where appropriate as an advisory body on matters within areas of interest of the Company at national and international levels

 

(vi) To act as a national supervisory body for the sporting and competitive use of the Subject Items

 

(vii) To advise and assist those of the Company’s members concerned with the comparative use of the Subject Items

(viii) To promote the retention within the United Kingdom, in good condition and without injurious modification or de activation, of the Subject Items. and actively to oppose any threat or damage to those items judged by the Company to be part of the National Heritage or to be of special interest

(ix) To seek and obtain Home Office approval for the purpose of the Firearms Acts 1968 to 1997 and any succeeding or related legislation(“the Firearms Act”) in such manner as the company may determine and to comply with any lawful requirement in that regard.

And the Company shall have the following powers exercisable in furtherance of its said objects but not otherwise, namely:

 

C. To affiliate the Company and its members to bodies and organisations of relevant interest as appropriate and to subscribe to their objects and rules.

 

D. To furnish its members within the provisions of the Firearms Act with facilities, materials and support for the study use and retention of historical breechloading smallarms.

 

E. To offer prizes and contribute to prizes and distinctions for the study, exhibition and appropriate use of the Subject Items for eminence in the field of the Company’s objects and for substantial contributions to the Company or its affairs.

 

F. To convene and encourage the convention of conferences and meetings for the promotion of the Company’s objects

 

G. To obtain money by subscription, contribution, donation, bequest or otherwise and to accumulate funds so far as may seem expedient.

 

H. To endorse and support independently constituted regional branches.

 

I. To purchase, take on lease or in exchange, or hire, or otherwise acquire any lands, houses, buildings, rights, properties and chattels which the Company may think to be suitable or convenient for any purposes of its business.

 

J. To sell, improve, manage, develop, lease, mortgage, dispose of, turn to account, or otherwise deal with all or any part of the undertaking or property of the Company and to sell the undertaking of the Company, or any part thereof, for such consideration as the company may think fit;

 

K. To obtain grants or other funding from any public authority or other person (and if deemed appropriate to accept the same on terms or conditions) for the purpose of the Company and to carry out the terms of any such grants;

 

L. To enter into partnerships or into any arrangement for sharing profits, union of interests, co-operation, reciprocal concessions, or otherwise, with any person or unincorporated association.

 

M. To borrow money and to secure the repayment of any loans or other obligations of the Company by mortgage or charge of any assets of the Company;

 

N. To act as trustee of any charitable trust in connection with the purposes of the Company;

 

O. To amalgamate with any other company with objects all or any of which are similar to the objects of the Company in any manner whatsoever (whether with or without a winding up of the Company);

 

P. To support or subscribe to any charitable object or any institution.

Q. To invest any of the money of the Company not immediately required for its operations in such manner, with or without security, as the Council may determine;

 

R. To construct and maintain any buildings or machinery which may be convenient for the business of the Company;

 

S. To carry out all or any of the above objects as principals or agents or in partnership or conjunction with any other person, firm, Company, or company or through agents or trustees, or by means of any subsidiary or auxiliary company or otherwise and in any part of the world;

 

T. To do all such acts and things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects.

 

Provided that:

 

U. In case the Company shall take or hold any property which may be subject to any trusts, the Company shall only deal with or invest the same in such manner as allowed by-law, having regard to such trusts.

V. The Company shall not support with its funds any object, or endeavour to impose on or procure to be observed by its members or others any regulation, restriction or ¬condition which if an object of the Company would make it a trade union.