The ACNC legislation passed in 2012 allowed for the creation of minimum external conduct standards that are required to be met by registered charities.
To date, this issue seems to have been in the government’s too hard tray but Treasury has now issued draft external conduct standards and is seeking submissions on them.
The draft
The ACNC has released a report that examines its compliance and enforcement activities in 2017.
The report also outlines the ACNC’s compliance focus for the year ahead.
Download the report at ACNC’s website: https://lnkd.in/gXDEUDm
Amendments to the Privacy Act introducing the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme commences today, 22 February 2018.
The NDB scheme will apply to all organisations currently required to take steps to secure personal information, including but not limited to businesses and not-for-profit organisations with an annual turnover of $3 million, health service
Bill d’Apice, Chairman and Partner, has been recognised in Chambers and Partners’ Asia Pacific 2018 edition as a Band 1 lawyer in the area of Charities.
This is a well-deserved acknowledgement and recognition of Bill’s dedication to the Charity sector over many decades.
From the Chambers Asia-Pacific guide:
“Bill d’Apice of Makinson & d’Apice in
The ACNC have recently released an information paper ‘Remunerating Charity Board Members‘ for charities considering paying board members for their services as a board member.
The term ‘board members’ is used throughout the information paper to generically refer to the responsible persons of a charity, such as committee members, directors or Trustees.
The
A reminder to check your School Building Funds’ compliance with the ATO requirements.
School and College Building Funds may attract the attention of the ATO’s compliance program this year. The ATO develops and implements its compliance program annually, which identifies key areas for its compliance activities for the financial year. The compliance program targets areas
The ATO and ACNC are reminding charities and ancillary funds that the annual reporting period is fast approaching.
Charities registered with the ACNC (that have an annual year end of 30 June) have less than a week to submit their Annual Information Statement (AIS) to the ACNC. The AIS should be lodged via the
The ACNC Commissioner has just released the ACNC’s Interpretation Statement on Public Benevolent Institutions. The Interpretation Statement provides guidance on the ACNC’s interpretation of the law pertaining to Public Benevolent Institutions (PBI) and insight into how the ACNC and its staff will assess a charitable organisation’s entitlement for endorsement as a PBI. The Interpretation
Last week, the ACNC launched a “Registered Charity Tick”. The tick may be used by charities registered on the ACNC Charity Register which are up to date with ACNC financial reporting requirements and meet the regulator’s governance standards. The tick will allow donors to easily identify registered charitable organisations complying with these requirements.
Ms Susan
Most Charities will be aware that it is a condition of registration as a Charity (other than as a basic religious charity) that the Charity complies with the ACNC Governance Standards which have applied since 1 July 2013.
However, it is not enough that the Charity complies with the ACNC Governance Standards at the time