Special General Meeting - 10am Saturday 13 December 2025 (online)
Notice of Special General Meeting to be held on 13 December 2025
When: 13 December 2025 at 10am
Where: Online only – on Microsoft Teams (any member who is unable to attend but wants to vote can make a proxy vote)
What is this about?
As you may have seen on our website and newsletter, under the Incorporated Societies Act 2022 (which replaced the 1908 Act), all incorporated societies are required to reregister under the Incorporated Societies Act 2022 before 5 April 2026 in order to remain on the register.
As part of this process, we are required to update our constitution (formerly known as ‘rules’ but this is reverting back to ‘constitution’ under the new Act) to make sure it includes some specific content required under the new Act. It is also a good opportunity to update and modernise the constitution further, having already completed some of that work in 2022 when we last made changes.
We have been hard at work preparing our new constitution to comply with the new requirements, and this special general meeting is your chance to vote to approve:
- our decision to reregister; and
- the new constitution.
Included with this notice are:
- the draft new constitution for your review;
- our current rules, as updated at our 2022 AGM for a comparison; and
- a copy of s 26 of the Incorporated Societies Act 2022, which lists what is required to be included in the constitutions of all incorporated societies that are re-registering.
We will of course have time for questions and comments before the vote at the meeting, but if you have any questions, comments or suggestions before that (including any pesky typos or other errors that your fresh eyes spot), feel free to contact Alarna Sharratt at alarna@wellingtonms.org.nz.
Further information will be added to this webpage as it becomes available.