The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (hereinafter referred to as “the FIA”) –

The sole international sporting authority entitled to make and enforce regulations for the encouragement and control of automobile competitions and records and the final international court of appeal for the settlement of disputes arising therefrom has, so that these powers may be exercised in a fair and equitable manner, drawn up the International Sporting Code in and by which each national club or federation belonging to the FIA shall be presumed to acquiesce and be bound; and

Subject to such acquiescence and restraint, the FIA shall recognise one single national club or federation per country (hereinafter called “the ASN”) as sole international sporting power for the enforcement of the International Sporting Code and control of motor sport in its own country, dominions, dependencies, protectorates and colonies (provided however that if one of such territories is represented directly on the FIA, the control of the sport in that territory shall be exercised by that territory’s ASN) and each ASN shall have the right to delegate the whole or part of the powers conferred upon it by the International Sporting Code to another or several other clubs of its country and to withdraw such delegation (provided it first obtains the prior approval of the FIA to any such delegation or withdrawal of delegation) and each ASN may draw up its own Competition rules which will compulsorily be sent to the FIA.