Any Breed Representative may submit items for the Kennel Club
Liaison Council – Breeds’ agenda and as long as another breed will
second an item the KCLC – Breeds will discuss it at the next twice
yearly meeting. Items frequently need to be referred back to Breed Representatives who will report back to their sponsoring organisation,
be that Breed Council or Breed Clubs, with their deliberations reported
back to the Liaison Council, before they in turn will pass their
recommendations to the Kennel Club General Committee who may
accept or reject as they consider appropriate.

Recent items supported and/or initiated by the Rough Collie Breed
Council have included:

A request that the present ‘Working Group’ be split due to size.

Show Certificates of Merit and Cruft’s qualifiers from General/Premier Open Shows.

Intervals between judging appointments at all levels (Group and Breed)

Junior Warrants and Kennel Club Stud Book Entries.

Single Challenge Certificate allocations.

Separate scheduling of a Champions Only class at Breed Club Shows.

On Lyn Westby’s retirement, after 13 years as Rough Collie Breed
Council and Pastoral Group representative, in 2010 the post of
Rough Collie Breed Breed Council Representative passed to the
Rough Collie Breed Council Secretary Mrs Duna Jones, and once
again the Kennel Club has confirmed that the Rough Collie delegate
will, like her predecessor, form one of the Pastoral Group representatives
on the Kennel Club Liaison Council – Breeds Council:

In an effort to engage rank and file exhibitors, breeders, show organisations and those who participate in the more active disciplines the Kennel Club has devised a system of Liaison Councils to advise the Kennel Club’s General Committee on matters of concern to their speciality. Each Kennel Club Liaison Council is made up of a panel of delegates, the number governed by the Kennel Club, who are closely associated with that particular discipline.

Breeds participate via The Kennel Club Liaison Council – Breeds with each Kennel Club recognised breed electing a representative, who must be acceptable to all registered Breed Clubs for that breed, to serve on the Kennel Club Breeds Council of Representatives for a fixed three year term. In breeds that support a Breed Council the representative is usually picked from within its Member Clubs, where no Breed Council is constituted the Representative is generally chosen by a ballot of Breed Clubs organised by the senior or parent society.

The Kennel Club Liaison Council – Breeds draws its 30 delegates, spread over all the Groups, from these representatives, their election being by a ballot of breed delegates which are sub-divided into the seven recognised Groups. With
only four or five representatives on the Kennel Club Liaison Council –
Breeds for each group delegates, once elected, are charged with
promoting the interests of the entire group they represent, rather than
just their own breed.