Incorporation of Share Drive Australia - We Need You!

 

Requirements for incorporation

 

Size and type of organisation

To become an incorporated association, your club, community group or organisation must:

• have at least five members

• not operate for the profit of its members (although an incorporated association can provide services or benefits to its members).

 

Choose a name

 

You must choose a name that reflects the purpose of the association.

• Your proposed name must not be identical or similar to one listed on theOrganisations and business names register on the Australian Securities & Investments Commission website. This list is checked as part of the application process and you are unable to proceed through the application until a proposed name can be registered.

• Your association must have the word ‘Incorporated’ as the last word of its name. You may also use ‘Inc.’ or ‘Inc’.

 

Create rules and purpose

 

Your association must have a written set of rules, also known as a constitution, which deals with the 23 matters set out in Schedule 1 to the Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012 (the Act).

The rules also include the association’s purpose; this is what the association intends to achieve. For example, the purpose for a junior football association may be:

• To provide an opportunity for the youth of our area to participate in Australian Rules Football and enhance their health and wellbeing through organised sport.

• To provide for the health, welfare and wellbeing of players, supporters and spectators.

 

Vote to incorporate the association

 

In order to incorporate, the association must hold a meeting to vote on whether to do so. All members must be given at least 21 days notice of the meeting.

At this meeting, a majority of votes cast by members must:

• authorise a person, who is at least 18 years old and lives in Australia, to incorporate the association

• approve proposed rules that comply with the Act, or approve adoption of the model rules.

 

Unless the association nominates another secretary, the person who lodges the application for incorporation becomes the first secretary of the incorporated association.

 

Unless the rules specify otherwise, the committee members of the unincorporated association form the first management committee of the incorporated association. If the person who lodges the application is not the secretary, that person will become a delegate of the association. For more information, view our Delegates of incorporated associations page.

 

Source: 

https://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/clubs-and-not-for-profits/incorporated-associations/become-an-incorporated-association/register-as-an-incorporated-association/application