2,553
edits
Difference between revisions of "Preparing for Transition under the New Societies Act"
From Clicklaw Wikibooks
Preparing for Transition under the New Societies Act (view source)
Revision as of 06:47, 30 November 2016
, 06:47, 30 November 2016no edit summary
| Line 40: | Line 40: | ||
| text = This society is a member-funded society. It is funded primarily by its members to carry on activities for the benefit of its members. On its liquidation or dissolution, this society may distribute its money and other property to its members. | | text = This society is a member-funded society. It is funded primarily by its members to carry on activities for the benefit of its members. On its liquidation or dissolution, this society may distribute its money and other property to its members. | ||
}} | }} | ||
==Step 4: Prepare an electronic version of the society’s consolidated bylaws== | |||
To file the transition application, you will need to submit a single, consolidated set of the society’s bylaws in electronic form. In other words, you must create one document that reflects the original bylaws as well as all subsequent amendments to the bylaws filed with the Corporate Registry. | |||
The document can be a word processing document or a PDF. If your constitution and bylaws are currently in a single document, you will need to separate them into two documents; the bylaws must be in a single, consolidated document. | |||
To assemble this document, the transition package described in the optional preliminary step above can be very helpful. For societies that use the model bylaws in Schedule B of the old ''Society Act'', a Word version of the Schedule B Bylaws available on the Corporate Registry website can be used as a starting point to assemble your society’s consolidated bylaws. You will need to update that document with any amendments to the society’s bylaws that were filed with the Corporate Registry. | |||
===If there are provisions to move from the society’s constitution to the bylaws=== | |||
For any provisions in the society’s constitution other than the society’s name and purposes, move those provisions to the society’s consolidated bylaws. You can add them to a new part at the end of the bylaws under a separate heading such as “Provisions from the Society’s Pre-Transition Constitution” or “Former Constitutional Provisions”. | |||
If you are moving an “unalterable” provision from the society’s constitution to the bylaws, mark that provision as having been “previously unalterable”. For example, a society might have an unalterable provision in its constitution about remuneration of board members: | |||
{{Transitioning an Existing Society Navbox}} | {{Transitioning an Existing Society Navbox}} | ||
