Peter believe CMCA was an incorporated body, which takes away the liability of members and protects them, all an incorporated body needs is public liability insurance for it's members when at official events, their venues and to be incorporated. It's no different to the SSAA, which is an incorporated body, has 180000 members and 400 clubs, but not a corporation.pet-els wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2017 6:35 pm The reason clubs become corporations is that if the business goes up the wall then all the members are liable for any thing like somebody sues etc. Thus all clubs needed to be a Company Limited. Just because we have $5m in the bank it's not much if a big suite is taken out against us. I think that the board members were first on the list of a case and this was there to help protect them.
Otherwise no one would stand for the board.
PeterH
Our gun club is small and we are an associate member club, which covers us at our own range, when we travel and shoot anywhere round Aus. Each individual branch of SSAA is their own entity and not subject to head office control as with a corporations, direction etc is controlled by the members and their clubs, not a company board. When you are a company, members have no rights whatsoever, except at annual meetings and they don't even have any say in those. I'm a club person, not a company hack, already have my own company and know the reality.
