The Conduct of members
  17. CONDUCT OF MEMBERS

18. DISCIPLINARY ACTION
   
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  Conduct of members
  The Guild expects a high standard of professional conduct and an acceptable standard of general behaviour from all its individual members.

Each member of the Guild is required to ensure that neither the name of the Guild nor of its members is brought into disrepute either by their own direct actions or utterances, or by inference and innuendo.

The Guild acknowledges the right of its Full Members to freedom of expression in motoring journalism.
   
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  Disciplinary action
  Written communications reporting a conduct transgression by a member of the Guild can be addressed to the Chairman who will table the communication at the next Committee meeting.

To encourage its audience to report incidents of misconduct, the Chairman can on request of the complainant, and at his own discretion, maintain the confidentiality of the source of a single complaint until more than one similar incident about the same member is received.

After proper consideration of such complaints and allowing the parties access to a hearing or hearings before the whole or part of the Committee with other inputs if required, the Committee can decide there has been a transgression and take disciplinary steps against the member concerned.

The mildest disciplinary action available to the Committee will be to inform the member of the Guild's displeasure.

The most severe action will be to expel the member from the Guild. A member who has been expelled from the Guild may re-apply for membership one year later following the procedures laid out in this Constitution.

Any disciplinary action taken must be communicated to the full membership of the Guild, unless the member has chosen to resign from the Guild prior to the implementation of the disciplinary action. The decision of the Committee on all disciplinary matters shall be final.
   
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