Regarding the Constitution & Membership Bylaws. The ‘Constitution’ of the Association is in fact contained in the Memorandum of Association and the By-Laws.
Memorandum of Association
Following are the by-laws for
The Order of Australia Association...
DRAFT REVISED CONSTITUTION & BY-LAWS FOR CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL APRIL 2012:
Dear members
It is appropriate that every large organisation should periodically review it's management and administrative frame work, and the OAA is no exception. Last year the National Committee established a Governance Review Sub Committee to undertake that review, and in February that sub committee provided the National Committee with a draft OAA Constitution to replace our current Memorandum and Articles of Association, and revised draft By-Laws for the Association. Following consideration and some amendments by the Directors of the OAA these new documents and are now offered to members for comment.
It is the intention to place the new Constitution before the AGM in April 2012 for approval - during the 2012 National Conference in Darwin.
Subject to comments from the membership the new By-Laws will be placed before the National Committee in April 2012 for approval-in-principle, for implementation only after approval of the new constitution.
Two key factors have led to a requirement for our Constitution to be revised:
a. As the 2010 Governance Review indicated, over time changes to mandated legislative and administrative requirements have resulted in potential areas of interpretative uncertainty in our current Memorandum and Articles of Association, and
b. For an application for Deductible Gift Recipient status for the Association to withstand scrutiny by the Parliament a number of procedural issues have to be addressed.
The attached draft Constitution has been prepared with legal advice, and with initial input from Directors. The Association is grateful for the pro bono legal advice provided by our member Mr Richard d'Apice AM of Makinson & d'Apice in the preparation of the draft Constitution.
For the By-Laws, the Governance Sub Committee recommended a number of changes to the Association By-Laws to better reflect current best-practice, and changes to the Constitution have required some consequential By-Law changes.
Members who wish to comment on either the draft Constitution or the draft By-Laws are asked to do so through their Branch Committees by the end of November 2011.
Roger J Dace AM, QGM
National Secretary
Order of Australia Association
DRAFT REVISED CONSTITUTION
DRAFT REVISED BY-LAWS
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