Incorporated associations are required to have documented rules. These may be:
* the model rules,
* the model rules with changes, or
* their own rules.
When an association is incorporated or amends its rules it is required to provide the following documents with the Application for incorporation (Form 1) or Notice of alteration of rules (Form 6):
* adopting the Model rules – a copy of the model rules is NOT required to be lodged with a Form 1 or Form 6
* adopting the Model rules with changes – only the specific changes or additions to the model rules are required to be lodged with Form 1 or Form 6
* adopting their own rules – on incorporation a full set of the rules is lodged with Form 1, thereafter only the specific rule changes or additions to the association’s rules are required to be lodged with Form 6.
Note: When an association adopts the model rules with changes it should not incorporate the changes into the model rules for the purpose of lodging that document. This prevents uncertainty as to what has been changed in the model rules. An association that chooses to incorporate changes or additions into the model rules (rather than setting out those changes separately) is considered to have adopted its own rules.
To keep it simple I propose we endeavor to adopt the Model Rules without modification. Details and a PDF of these rules can be found at