Keeping it Legal: E Ai Ki Te Ture
Practical information for organisations, groups, trusts and societies, with simple, accurate, easily-found information about their legal obligations. Brochure 2 and Factsheets 1-6 of "Keeping It Legal" covers getting started and types of legal structures for organisations, groups, trusts and societies etc.
Keeping it Legal: E Ai Ki Te Ture is a valuable resource, developed in 2005 by the New Zealand Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations and the Office for the Community and Voluntary Sector.
Full of practical information on the legal requirements and responsibilities of voluntary organisations, Keeping it Legal is very useful in getting started and for developing a Risk Management strategy.
The up-to-date online version is at: http://www.keepingitlegal.net.nz/
A "How to Use" Guide outlines the contents: There are four brochures, each covering a particular area of law and laid out as a series of questions pointing you to things you may need to know. More detailed information is given in 17 factsheets, which are referred to in the Brochures.
Brochures
- Laws and your agency
- Legal Entities
- People, premises and environment
- Compliance and insurance
Fact sheets
The Factsheets summarise information about requirements and responsibilities and list useful references for details.
- Fact sheet 1: Getting started
- Fact sheet 2: Unincorporated groups
- Fact sheet 3: Incorporated societies
- Fact sheet 4: Trusts and charitable trust boards
- Fact sheet 5: National, branch and local structures
- Fact sheet 6: Companies and other structures
- Fact sheet 7: Charities Commission
- Fact sheet 8: Taxation
- Fact sheet 9: People: volunteers, employees and contractors
- Fact sheet 10: Health and safety
- Fact sheet 11: Human rights
- Fact sheet 12: Privacy
- Fact sheet 13: Premises and environment
- Fact sheet 14: Trading activities
- Fact sheet 15: Intellectual property
- Fact sheet 16: Civil wrongs or torts and criminal nuisance
- Fact sheet 17: Insurance.
Updates will be provided at:
http://www.keepingitlegal.net.nz/
IMPORTANT NOTE: Keeping It Legal E Ai Ki Te Ture provides an overview of the general legal issues that may apply to your organisation. It is intended to help you with information to check you are on the right track, or to help identify legal areas in your organisation which need work. Your own lawyer is the only appropriate source of legal advice, but Keeping It Legal E Ai KiTe Ture is a good place to find out what you need to ask.