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Originally Posted by glenluceskies
My advice for anyone thinking of forming a group or club? Keep to an informal group and meet amongst yourselves. No presidents, no treasurers, no bank accounts, no model association rules, no AGM's, no auditing the books at the end of the financial year.
If you all get along, then each person throws in $5 every time you meet (or $1 or $2, whatever) for refreshments, consumerables, end-of-year bbq or whatever, and do not try to create a formal incorporated club unless you are really, really ready for it.
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You may be right. However, the problems with forming a group is
public liability and the need for
insurance.
Legally, the difficulties in forming groups is to basically protect its members from being sued. To do this, you need to be incorporated, by a government authority. This requires registration and a legal constitution. In turn, it allows you to hold money in an account, which required books and financial statements.
If you do as you suggest, you need to be auspiced by a group that does have public liability insurance to meet together at some 'meeting', and also that any finances the group possesses are held by the auspice body.
Not doing this finds the danger is an accident happening and one person suing the members for damages, in which each individual is liable. You might have good intentions, but a $2 million dollar debt to a couple of people tends to ruin one's life.
Years ago, doing such things was fine. Not anymore. I, personal, would not be involved in such a ad-hoc group.
Best idea is to probably to stick to blog sites like this one...