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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Centre President,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>RDA (NSW) Box Hill (Tall Timbers) Centre<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Board has received various emails from your Centre Committee. Those emails were also sent by your Centre to all other RDA (NSW) Centres. Those emails will be attended to in due course, however in the meantime the Board would like to address a statement made in your Centre’s email dated 26 June 2020. That email was sent to all RDA (NSW) Centres and to the Board. Accordingly, it is necessary to also send this reply to all Centres.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In that email your Centre states:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“<span style='color:#1F497D'>We reject the position of the Board that the Motions can be deferred to an EGM pending legal advice, because the Motion raised by Tall Timbers are in accordance with the Constitution and the Corporations Act</span>”.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This is a reference to the Motions which have been put forward by your Centre for discussion at the 2020 AGM. It is noted that these Notices of Motion will be circulated soon to all Centres.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Board concedes that the motions can legally be put. However, just<u> </u>because it is legal to do something does not necessarily mean that it is automatically the appropriate or correct thing to do. It all depends on the circumstances.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></u><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Board submits that it would clearly appear to be against the Board’s obligations under both the Constitution and the Corporations Law to act, as suggested by your Centre, to put the Motions submitted by your Centre to all other Centres for discussion and for the making of a decision prior to the legal advice being received, particularly since that legal advice is directly in relation to the very issues which are to be decided upon in those motions. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It could also be against the commercial, financial and legal interests of RDA (NSW) and all of its Centres if the decisions are made prior to the legal advice being received, end up not being supported by the legal opinion.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It is the Board's opinion that the proper course of action would be for decisions on those Motions to be made only after the legal advice relating to the issues covered by those Notices of Motion is received. Once that legal advice is received, the Motions can be put to Centres for them to consider and vote upon, with Centres having the benefit of that legal advice. This would mean that only after the legal advice is received and considered that the motions should be put to Centres for their views. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Board has already stated, in previous correspondence, that it strongly supports the concept of incorporation of Centres, which is why the legal advice is being sought – to ensure that the whole process is handled properly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Regards,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Joseph Orland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Honorary Director, Finance Officer & Company Secretary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Riding for the Disabled Association (NSW)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Quad 1, Level 2, 8 Parkview Drive, Sydney Olympic Park, NSW<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>(PO Box 710 Sydney Markets NSW 2129)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Ph</span></b><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>: (02) 8736 1256 <b>Mob:</b> 0407 004 019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Email: </span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><a href="mailto:stateoffice@rdansw.org.au"><span style='color:#1F497D'>joseph.orland@rdansw.org.au</span></a></span><u><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Web: </span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><a href="http://www.rdansw.org.au/"><span style='color:#1F497D'>www.rdansw.org.au</span></a></span><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>"Riding Develops Abilities"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> <img border=0 width=79 height=57 style='width:.825in;height:.5916in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D653B1.8982DD20" alt="cid:image001.png@01CBDCAA.ABB8D800"> </span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><img border=0 width=61 height=61 style='width:.6333in;height:.6333in' id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image002.png@01D653B1.8982DD20" alt="cid:image009.png@01D56F0C.90FD55B0"><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Donations of $2.00 or more are tax deductible<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> <img border=0 width=203 height=39 style='width:2.1166in;height:.4083in' id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.png@01D653B1.8982DD20" alt="cid:image005.png@01D56F0D.32653850"></span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> <img border=0 width=56 height=56 style='width:.5833in;height:.5833in' id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image004.png@01D653B1.8982DD20" alt="cid:image006.png@01D56F0C.90FD55B0"> <img border=0 width=72 height=80 style='width:.75in;height:.8333in' id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image005.png@01D653B1.8982DD20" alt="cid:image008.png@01D56F0D.32653850"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>