NRA Discipline Representative
Gallery Rifle and Pistol is an officially recognised discipline of the NRA. As such the discipline has representation on the NRA general council and sits on appropriate NRA committees (eg Shooting Committee). In accordance with NRA regulations the discipline’s elected representative serves a 3 year term.
The next 3 year term runs from September 2017 to September 2020.
Nominations are now being sought for the the Gallery Rifle and Pistol Representative to serve for the next three year period. Anyone who is interested please get in touch.
What does the role entail?
There is no role description as such but as the GR&P rep you will be expected to represent and promote the discipline’s interests within the NRA and generally. The NRA are the NGB for the discipline, they oversee the rules and regulations for all target shooting disciplines they represent and Gallery Rifle is a core discipline.
The GR&P rep has a seat on NRA general council and a seat on the NRA shooting committee. General Council and Shooting Committee formally meet three times a year at Bisley.
Apart from these core responsibilities the role is essentially whatever the person fulfilling it wants it to be.
The key dates
- 31st March 2017 – all nominees or nominators must be fully paid up NRA members.
- 30th April 2017 – Nominations for all vacancies must be returned to the Chief Executive by 17:00 on this date.
Registered Members must be qualified for voting for their respective Regional or Shooting Discipline Candidate by this date. All Members desiring to vote must be fully paid-up Registered Members by this date. - 22nd May 2017 – voting slips will be posted out to all entitled Members by this date together with the procedures for voting.
- 13th July 2017 – voting slips in the correct envelope supplied must be received by the NRA office by mail or by hand, no later than 5.00pm on this date.
The electee will take office from September’s General Council meeting.
