Quoting "Chris Samuel" <chris@csamuel.org>
On 03/09/13 16:49, Petros wrote:
We want to present it to the AGM but if it does not get adopted it isn't the end of it. We still exist, just with an outdated constitution. As our president notes, it is still valid because it was established before the new legislation went through (I believe him, I did not check myself)
The Consumer Affairs website says that if you have not notified them that you will be using your own locally determined rules by November 26th then the new model rules will apply to you whether you want them or not.
Only if you used the model rules before:
http://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/contact-us/ask-a-question/incorporated-associ...
From 26 November 2013, the new rules will automatically apply to incorporated associations currently using our model rules, unless they notify us prior that they will create their own rules. I don't know whether that is the case. Is LUV using model rules?
One downside is that the new model rules require the register of members to include past members and the date of them leaving; they also require a minuted committee resolution to accept a new member into the association, which seems pretty clunky (and rules out mailing lists).
There's nothing to stop LUV writing their own version of the model rules to suit it, but that would need an AGM/SGM to pass them (as was done by the Mt Burnett Observatory earlier this year).
Yes, that can include tweaks to registration. E.g. "probationary" via e-mail, confirmed at a later state (e.g. committee meeting). Regards Peter