Your Constitution
Most of what a committee worries about is already settled by the constitution — and if your club is on the Queensland Model Rules, that settlement is unusually generous to volunteers. This section explains what the Model Rules are, what they cover, and why departing from them costs a club more than it saves.
3 pages in this section
8 min readWhy your club should adopt the Model RulesThey are free, the government maintains them, and they protect your committee more than a custom constitution ever will.
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.