Legal Responsibilities of Voluntary Organisations in New Zealand

Updates

The laws explained in Keeping It Legal E Ai Ki Te Ture change from time to time. The table below provides a list of the current pages in the Learn More section of this website, the corresponding fact sheet, and the date of the most recent update.

If you have a copy of the former printed resource kit, we have retained printable PDF fact sheets with the same numbers as before. These are linked from each of the webpages listed below.

To update your kit to the most current version, simply download and print out all the fact sheets that were updated as at June 2009.

As at this date a number of pages and fact sheets were updated to reflect changes to the law occurring since we last updated the website and the printed resource kit. Where dates preceding June 2009 are specified below, this means the legal content was still current as at that previous date, so there is no need to update your printed fact sheets in these cases.

We recommend you refer back to this page from time to time to the date in the Last Updated column to check if you have the most recent version. Then use these dates as a guide to update your hard copy versions.

If you require a complete printed set of fact sheets at any time, just download all the PDF versions and print them out.

Webpage Fact sheet Last updated
Getting started 1 April 2007
Unincorporated groups 2 October 2007
Incorporated societies 3 October 2007
Trusts and charitable trust boards 4 June 2009
Relationships between national, branch and local offices 5 October 2007
Companies and other legal forms 6 April 2007
Charities Commission 7 June 2009
Taxation 8 January 2010
People: Volunteers, employees and contractors 9 January 2010
Health and safety 10 June 2009
Human rights and discrimination 11 June 2006
Privacy 12 June 2009
Premises and environment 13 June 2009
Trading and other activities 14 June 2009
Intellectual property 15 June 2009
Torts (civil wrongs) and criminal offences 16 June 2006
Insurance as a risk-management tool 17 June 2006
Contracts 18 June 2006