Your Constitution · 8 min read
Why your club should adopt the Model Rules
They are free, the government maintains them, and they protect your committee more than a custom constitution ever will.
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Running the Club
Everything a committee is legally responsible for, in one place: the constitution, the committee's own duties, the club's money, insurance, Blue Cards, safety and volunteers. Most of what a committee worries about is already settled — this is where the settlement lives.
The 7 sections here, and the colour each one runs on
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Your Constitution
The Model Rules, why they exist, and how they protect the people who run your club.
7 min readThe Model Rules — ReferenceWhat Schedule 4 of the Associations Incorporation Regulation 1999 sets out, rule by rule, and what it doesn't cover.
7 min readThe Associations Incorporation Act 1981 (Qld)The legal floor every incorporated Queensland croquet club operates under, and how it works with the Model Rules.02 / 07
The Committee
President, secretary, treasurer and members — what each role must do by law, and what is just custom.
5 min readHow the Committee WorksHow the Act, the Model Rules, and your club's constitution fit together to give volunteer committees clear authority and real legal protection.- Committee — Shared Legal DutiesThe legal obligations every committee member carries — eligibility, the four officer duties, conflicts of interest, and the protections that apply when you get it right.
- President — Officer DutiesThe four personal legal duties every officer holds, plus the president's specific role in conflicts of interest and grievances.
- Secretary — Records & MeetingsWhat records the law requires the secretary to keep, how meetings must be called, and what minutes must contain.
- Treasurer — Officer DutiesThe four personal legal duties every officer holds, with the treasurer's particular exposure on insolvent trading and financial conflicts.
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Money & Grants
Financial records, the treasurer's obligations, audit tiers, and finding grant money.
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Insurance
What the member policy covers, what it does not, and what to do when you need to claim.
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Working With Children
Blue Cards — who needs one, who does not, and how a club stays on the right side of it.
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Safety & Risk
Risk assessment, incidents, and the paperwork that protects you.
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Volunteers
Finding them, keeping them, and the protection the law already gives them.
Nobody expects you to know all of this
If Running the Clubdoesn't answer it, ask on the forum — the odds are strong that another Queensland club has already been through exactly the same thing.
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