[D-Space] Rules for an unincorporated society

[Alex King]

Can you put the draft rules on a wiki?

I've also been doing a little research and been printing out some of the 
aims/objects of other societies which could be used as a base for our own.

Another idea I had was to have the stuff to do with an incorporated
society left in but marked (eg in square brackets) so that it is not 
part of the rules but is there as a reference for new rules should we 
become an incorporated society.

Finally, can we establish some new pages on the wiki, as well as rules, 
one maybe for organisational planning, and post your "Here's how I would 
see us moving forward" stuff from below in there?  I would do it myself 
but someone needs to think out a good structure for the pages on the wiki.

Cheers,
Alex

On 08/12/10 08:17, Paul Campbell wrote:
> We need a set of rules for our unincorporated society so we can open a bank
> account - I've prepared and attached a set from the sample set for an
> incorporated society from here:
>
> http://www.community.net.nz/how-
> toguides/legalstructures/Templates/Incsocdocs.htm
>
> this is a sample designed to be used for an incorporated society, since we're
> not quite at that step yet I've adapted the document to fit an unincorporated
> society - this should make moving forwards to incorporated status easier.
>
> I've made a few changes to this document:
>
> Minor changes:
> - changed the name of the society
> - name of the executive committee to "the Board"
> - removed a couple of minor references to being 'incorporated'
>
> Major changes:
> - removed the clause saying that the initial members of the incorporated society
> are the members of the unincorporated society
> - added a clause saying that board meetings are open to all members (as we
> talked about at our meeting the other day)
> - reduced the size of the board (to reflect our current size)
> - changed the goals of the sample organisation to being close to ours (I'm not
> done here, I'll finish it today - it's the actual rules that are important).
>
> All this stuff is largely boilerplate, the same stuff is used by almost every NZ
> society - the goal is not to create a final perfect document, but something to
> get us to the point where we approve a set of rules we can use to become
> incorporated (which do have to be a best effort) which should happen in a few
> months.
>
> There's a great flow chart on how to form an incorporated society here:
>
> http://www.community.net.nz/how-
> toguides/legalstructures/publicationsresources/incorpsoc.htm
>
> we're at step 0 setting up what is referred to in step 1 as "your group".
>
> Here's how I would see us moving forward:
>
> - adopt the rules for the unincorporated society
> - open bank account
> - move forward on setting up space
> - prepare rules for incorporated society
> - apply for IRD approval of the rules
> - call SGM of unincorporated society and vote on them (need 15 members)
> - apply for incorporation
> - receive approval
> - dissolve unincorporated society turn over all assets and membership to the
> incorporated society
> - apply to IRD for formal tax status
>
>
> I'm going to finish off the goals and present these to the meeting this evening
> - 7pm at the Duke of Wellington in the exchange.
>
> 	Paul
>    
>
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