Lancashire League Handbook 2021

27 SECTION C PROFESSIONALS /OVERSEAS AMATEUR PLAYERS 1. ONE PROFESSIONAL/OVERSEAS AMATEUR PLAYER TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT - Member Clubs are reminded that it is the responsibility of each Club to ensure that any Professional/ Amateur Player from abroad who is engaged to play for that Club does so in compliance of the requirements of the British Government relating to that player’s right to visit this Country, to play cricket for that Club and his terms of engagement either as a paid professional or as an overseas amateur. 1.1. Subject to section C1.5e below, each Club must play one bona-fide Professional or Overseas Amateur Player but not more than one, in every senior League and Cup match promoted and/or organised by the League. An Overseas Amateur Player being someone who has not been ordinarily resident in the UK for at least 12 months prior to the commencement of the season. Hereinafter any reference in these Rules to the word “Professional” shall include “Overseas Amateur Player” save where it would otherwise be inconsistent to do so. Notwithstanding any other provisions in these Rules no Club shall engage any professional who, after official enquiry shall have been judged guilty by any organisation affiliated, directly or indirectly, to the Lancashire Cricket Foundation and/or the League Cricket Conference of such conduct as to have justified his expulsion or suspension from the said organisation or the imposition of any other penalty other than a caution and/or warning as to his future conduct until the period of such expulsion or suspension or any obligation imposed by any other punishment has been completed or fulfilled to the satisfaction of the said organisation and the Lancashire Cricket Foundation and/or League Cricket Conference. 1.2. Each Club shall enter into a written agreement of service or written agreement for services with a player engaged by it as a professional (hereinafter called “a Professional Agreement.”) 1.3. Every Professional Agreement shall be submitted by 28th February before the start of the following season, or if signed later within 28 days of the signing thereof to the League Secretary. Knowledge of any part of the Agreement shall be confined to the Chairman and Secretary unless they decide that the interests of the League require that any part of the Agreement should be laid before the League Committee. 1.4. The total remuneration payable by a Club under any Professional Agreement shall be expressed as a fixed and pre-determined sum payable to the professional and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing but for the avoidance of doubt unless it is contained in the Professional Agreement no payment of any kind shall be paid to the professional (either by the Club or directly or indirectly by any third party including but not limited to third parties acting on behalf of the Club or on behalf of the player) by way of:-