Running an incorporated association

Find out how to change an association’s legal status. Get details of becoming a company, merging with another association or becoming an Indigenous corporation.

Learn what remuneration and other benefits information associations must disclose and how to make the disclosure.

Find out what your rules must include for people to become members and stop being members, and what your register of members must include

The management committee will make decisions to govern your association. Find out about choosing management committee members and what they need to do.

The Office of Fair Trading can’t make orders or decide your disputes , only the Supreme Court can do this. You should put internal processes in place.

Meetings are fundamental to running your incorporated association. Find out more about the types of meetings you must hold and meeting procedures.

Find out about changing the name of your incorporated association, including how to formally decide on a name change and how to report it to us.

Find out what your committee has to do about public liability insurance. Learn about when you need public liability insurance and what you must disclose.

Every association must have a set of rules. Find out about setting up or changing your organisation’s rules, adopting the model rules or writing your own rules.