- Introduction
- What does incorporation mean?
- How to decide whether your group should incorporate
- Next steps
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Groups in the early stages of development may consider being 'auspiced' by an existing organisation.
- what it means to ‘incorporate’
- the advantages of incorporating
- the obligations of incorporated groups
- checklists to help your group decide whether to incorporate
- you have decided to incorporate, what’s next?
- you have decided not to incorporate, what’s next?
- resources to help your group with next steps
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Find out which incorporated legal structure you should choose.
- Review its decision from time to time. Your group should review its decision to stay unincorporated at least every year and whenever there is a significant change in its activities - for example, if it employs a paid staff member, receives a large grant, wants to lease property, expands or wants to take on further activities, or seek funding.
- Be aware of the disadvantages of remaining unincorporated. If your group chooses to stay unincorporated, it will not be recognised as a ‘legal entity’ and will not have the benefits of limited liability and perpetual succession.
Getting Started Tool
Need help making key legal decisions? Our self-help tool will ask you a series of questions about your new organisation - in plain and simple English - and will provide you with information to help you answer these questions.