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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