[committee] 6 hour warning: This Week's Committee Meeting Agenda

[Scott Young]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Committee Agenda Daemon
<committee at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> bob : incorporation

I won't be able to attend the meeting, but if this is discussed today,
it's important that everybody understands the work that will be need
to be done to get incorporated.

In particular, incorporation will require the club to:
- advertise its intention to incorporate in a local newspaper;
- adopt 'rules' which comply with the Associations Incorporation Act
1987 (ie. ensure the constitution complies);
- adopt proper auditable accounting records (s 25 AIA87);
- provide those records to members at the AGM (s 26 AIA87); and
- pay a $126 application fee (which does not guarantee that the
application will be accepted).

A more comprehensive guide to incorporation is available here (PDF ~800kb):
http://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/associationsguide/PDF/Publications/Inc%20Guide%20-%20June%202010.pdf

I'm not suggesting that incorporation is a bad idea -- especially
since Westpac seem to have opened a bank account in UCC's name
assuming it is incorporated -- but if the committee wants to go ahead
with it someone needs to take responsibility for these tasks.

[SJY]