Keeping It Legal E Ai Ki Te Ture

The checklists in this section help you identify the legal form of your organisation, understand the differences between each type, and understand how to meet the administrative and other requirements the law imposes for each type.

The checklists guide you to information that explains, for example, the consequences for an informal, unincorporated group of becoming an incorporated society, and the administrative requirements that apply to charitable trust boards.

The checklists deal with issues such as these for each type of organisation, and also for national, regional and local structures.

Checklists

Unincorporated groups

• Checklist for an unincorporated group

Incorporated societies

• Key features and requirements of incorporated societies
• Rules and processes for governance of incorporated societies
• Roles and responsibilities of members and officers of incorporated societies
• Information to be supplied to the Registrar

Trusts and charitable trust boards

• Requirements for trusts and charitable trust boards
• Duties and powers of trustees of charitable trusts, and trustees or officers of charitable trust boards
• Liability of trustees of charitable trusts, and trustees or officers of charitable trust boards
• Reporting requirements for charitable trust boards

Companies

• Requirements for companies
• Responsibilities of company directors and managers

Other legal forms

• Industrial and provident societies and Māori land trusts

National, branch and local offices

• Decision-making in your organisation

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