Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women's Legal Centre
About us
 
Background
 
Constitution
    Ideology
    Membership
 
Services
    5 Year Plan
    Staff profiles
What's new
Information
Contribute
Links
Contact us
   
   
   
 
Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women's Legal Centre  
Call us on 1800 686 587 or (02) 9569 3847
Our Service is Free and Confidential
   
 

CONSTITUTION OF WIRRINGA BAIYA ABORIGINAL WOMEN'S LEGAL CENTRE INCORPORATED - Public Officer

   
 
11. Public Officer

a) The committee shall ensure that a person is appointed as public officer.

b) The first public officer shall be the person who completed the application for incorporation of the Association.

c) The committee may at any time remove the public officer and appoint a new public officer provided the person appointed is 18 years-of-age or older and a resident of New South Wales.

d) The public officer shall be deemed to have vacated their position in the following circumstances:

1. death;

2. resignation;

3. removal by the management committee or at a general meeting;

4. bankruptcy or financial insolvency;

5. mental illness or incapacity or;

6. residency outside New South Wales.

e) When a vacancy occurs in the position of public officer the committee shall within 14 days notify the Department of Fair Trading by the prescribed form and appoint a new public officer.

f) The public officer is required to notify the Department of Fair Trading by the prescribed form in the following circumstances:

1. appointment (within 14 days);

2. change of residential address (within 14 days);

3. a change in the Association's objects or rules (within one month);

4. of the Association's financial affairs (within one month after the annual general meeting);

5. a change of the Association's name (within one month)

g) The public officer may be an office bearer, committee member or any other person regarded as suitable for the position by the committee.

h) The public officer shall keep a register of members of the committee which must:

1. contain the name and residential address of each committee member and the date on which they became a member of the committee;

2. be updated within one month of any change taking place; and

3. be made available for inspection by any person, at all
reasonable hours and free of charge.

 

Constitution 8 September 1998