North Yorkshire County Show
Rules And Regulations

1. The Show shall be called ‘North Yorkshire County Show’ (herein after called "The Show").

2. The Show shall consist of a President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Committee Members.

3. The President shall be elected annually at the Annual General Meeting of the show to be held in December of each year and he/she shall assume office on the first day of January next following.

4. All Past Presidents shall enjoy for life the privileges at the Annual Show which are enjoyed by Vice Presidents of the Show.

5. The Committee to be elected by all paid up members present at the Annual General Meeting in December of each year.

6. Life Members. The Committee can nominate Life Members whenever circumstances so demand.

7. The Committee shall have power to elect any sub-committee they deem necessary and any vacancy on the Committee occurring, the Committee shall have the power to fill the same.

8. The Committee shall have the entire management of the Show and all matters upon which a question or dispute shall arise or in the conditions attached to any prize shall be referred to the Committee whose decision shall be final and binding on all parties interested. Five members of the Committee shall form a quorum.

9. The Committee will not be responsible for any accident that may occur and it shall be considered a condition of entry that any competitor or exhibitor shall hold the Show harmless, and it shall be considered to indemnify the Show Committee against any legal proceedings arising from any accident.

10. The Committee reserve the right to themselves to remove any objectionable or noisy competitor or attendants, and of altering any judging arrangements or event they may consider necessary.

11. The Committee will not be held responsible for any losses, mistakes or accidents that may occur in any entry and all entries are received subject to this condition.

12. The Committee may add to the number of prizes in any class if they consider that the entries warrant such addition, and withhold prizes in any class where they consider the number of entries insufficient to warrant such a prize.

13. All animals except horses, to be on the Showfield before 10.00am on the day of the Show. No animal to leave the Showfield before 4.00pm.

14. All Champions and first and second prize winners to parade in the ring.

15. Any protest made to the Secretaries in writing on the day of the Show (and in no case later than 4.00pm that day) will be referred to the Committee whose decision shall be final and binding.

16. In the event of any unfavourable weather the Committee are empowered to postpone or cancel the Show and will not hold themselves responsible for any expenses which might be incurred by any competitors or exhibitors.

17. All exhibits to be the property of the exhibitor and to have been in his or her ownership at least one month prior to the date of the Show.

18. The Committee reserve the right to cancel any class if entries are below three.

19. No betting allowed in connection with any events.

20. Entry forms, completed and signed, together with entry fees, must be in the hands of the Secretaries on or before the date shown in the schedule.

21. Except where otherwise stated all Trophies are perpetual, cannot be won outright, and will be held until 31st May following the show at which they were won, unless recalled earlier by the Society. They must be returned in a sound clean condition. Failure to return trophies will result in the Exhibitor concerned being refused entry in this and future shows run by the North Yorkshire County Show Society.

22. The Society reserve the right to reject any entries and to return the entry fees, and reserve the power for the Committee to cancel any Class in which there is not more than three entries. The Committee will meet within one week after the date on which entries close and exhibitors in any class to be notified immediately after the meeting and to have their entry money refunded.

23. The Society will not be responsible for any charges incurred by exhibitors for conveyance or delivery of exhibits to and from the Show.

24. The foregoing Rules shall only be altered or added to by an Annual General Meeting or a General Meeting of Members duly convened for such a purpose.

25. The fact that you entered the North Yorkshire County Show, means that your name and address will be entered into and published in our list of competitors. We may also use this information for promotion publicity and future mailings undertaken by, or on behalf of this Show Society.