Society Rules
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Background
Tangleball, as an Incorporated Society (under the Incorporated Societies Act 1908), is required to have a set of rules that members must subscribe to.
These rules were initially enacted by copying a generic template that set out various officer roles, processes for membership, conducting meetings, appealing decisions, etc.
However, the community found that these processes and structures were in many ways stifling (for instance, we have found the Tuesday meeting pattern more useful).
The rules are open to amendment and evolution and have gone through iterations that have hopefully improved them by adapting better to de facto community standards.
How to change rules
Rules are changed by agreement of members of the society. Traditionally, this can be achieved by Annual General Meetings or Special General Meetings — this can be very cumbersome. With the 2013 update, Tangleball can make society decisions via Weekly General Meetings too.
Once a rule change is accepted by the society, it must be enacted by officers of the society submitting the change to the relevant government authority. (Until this happens, the rule is in a pending state — is this binding?)
Current rules
The latest version of the rules are given in this document, passed at the 2013 AGM: File:Rules-2013-fix.pdf. The main change was the introduction of the Weekly General Meeting process, which has been used to make several decisions since then, including (pending) rule changes.
List of amendments
Accepted:
- 2013 AGM: introduce Weekly General Meeting (enacted)
- 2014: wording change encouraging recall or rotation of officers (pending / invalid?)
- 2016: member records wording change -- see *proposed* updated version of the rules for signing: File:Rules-2017.pdf (pending)
Underway:
- 2014-2015: Money leaks (process for spending small amounts of cash)
- 2015: financial arrangements to save/spend bigger amounts of money to further society aims
