During the course of advising charities and not-for-profit organisations over many years, we have noticed some common issues that are important to our clients.
Over the next few months, we will run a series of short summaries of those legal issues that every charity and not-for-profit organisation should consider.
This month we will deal with
Future of the ACNC slowly becomes more certain
Earlier this month, the (then) Minister for Social Services Scott Morrison stated that “there is very strong support for the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) and I don’t believe there would be any support in the Senate for there to be any change.” Many in the
Last week the ACNC released a one page document to be used as a template governing document for registered charities who otherwise don’t have a constitution which satisfies the requirements of the ACNC.
This template governing document is for charities which are created by an Act of Parliament or are governed by Canon Law and