Your committee and your rules
What your committee is responsible for, how to share the work, and the rules (the constitution) your club runs by.
9 pages in this section
4 min readShould a club adopt the Model Rules?The choices a club has: the Model Rules, its own rules, or a mix. What each means, and how clubs switch.
6 min readThe Model Rules: what they sayWhat 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)What the Act requires of every incorporated Queensland club, and how it works with the Model Rules.
6 min readHow the committee worksWhat the committee is, who sits on it, how its meetings run, and what the Act says it reports to members each year.
9 min readCommittee: shared legal dutiesThe legal duties every member of a management committee shares: who cannot be on the committee, the four officer duties, conflicts of interest, and what protects committee members.
5 min readSecretary: records and meetingsThe records the Act and the Model Rules say the secretary keeps, how meetings are called, and what minutes contain.
7 min readDelegation and task sharingWhat the law says only the president, secretary or treasurer can do, and how committees share the rest.
5 min readCan our club hold just an email address for each member?The Model Rules say the member register holds a postal or home address. A PO box counts. What CAQ asked Fair Trading, and its reply.
4 min readDon't make good volunteers work harder because of bad membersGood volunteers should not do more complicated work for the sake of bad members. Three questions to ask about any rule, form or approval step in your club.