Party elections (including Parliamentary and local government
selections) may be subject to a minimum requirement as to
age (not being more than 10 years) and/or length of continuous
membership (not being more than 15 months); and the provisions
of this constitution as to members' voting rights shall be construed
accordingly.
3.3 Responsibility for renewal of membership shall lie with State
Parties but these may, by their internal procedures, provide for
this function to be fulfilled by any other body or bodies within the
Party. Membership will be automatically terminated if the renewal
subscription is not received within three months following the due
date.
3.4 All other matters relating to the admission or refusal of admission
to membership of any person, or for the revocation or cessation
of membership of any member, including the basis on which
Local Parties may be involved in the recruitment and renewal of
members, shall be governed by the Constitutions of the State
Parties or by membership rules made under them, except that:
(i) where, in any part of the United Kingdom, provision is not
made in any of these respects by the State Party concerned,
Articles 3.5 to 3.7 shall apply;
(ii) a right of appeal pursuant to Article 21 of the Constitution,
once any procedures internal to the State Party concerned
have been exhausted, cannot be excluded in relation to the
interpretation of Article 3.1 of the Constitution; and
(iii) each state party shall give notice to the other state parties of
any revocation of membership.
Subject to the conditions set out in the Constitution of or in the
rules made by the State Party concerned, a member shall be a
member of:
(a) where the enrolling body is a Local Party, that Local Party or,
where the enrolling body is not a Local Party, an appropriate
Local Party in terms of Article 3.2 (a); and
(b) any applicable State Party and/or Regional Party; and
(c) the Federal Party.
3.5 No person may simultaneously be a member of more than one
Local Party. A member may re-register as of right in a different
Local Party under the terms of Article 3.2 (a), or may, with the
consent of the member's previous Local Party where that Local
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