Application for Club Membership of Australian Sailing (NSW Clubs)

Australian Sailing (AS) has amended its constitution to allow clubs to become direct voting members of AS, in states where there is no Member Yachting Association (MYA).

A separate notice has been sent to NSW clubs about YNSW holding a Special General Meeting where it plans to voluntarily cancel its registration as an incorporated association.

View the official notice here

The expected outcome of this is that the entity that NSW clubs were members of will no longer exist.

The Corporations Act does not allow a clubs membership of YNSW to automatically be transferred to AS and as a consequence of this, NSW clubs are required to apply for membership of Australian Sailing.

YNSW has previously collected information from your club when it originally affiliated and will not be asking you to resubmit documents.

Your club is however required to confirm that it will abide with the membership requirements of Australian Sailings constitution (clause 4.4) (outlined below)

Requirements of Member Clubs

An applicant to be a Voting Member of Australian Sailing which is a Club and is located in a State where there is no MYA, must:

1. 1. 1. be duly incorporated in a State;
      2. agree to be bound by and to abide by this Constitution;
      3. have objectives consistent with those of Australian Sailing;
      4. have its constitution and rules approved by Australian Sailing;
      5. advise Australian Sailing the name, address, date of birth and contact details of its members for inclusion in the Australian Sailing database;
      6. subject to the discretion of the Board, have 10 or more members;
      7. pay to Australian Sailing the annual membership fee payable by the Member Club in accordance with this Constitution together with any other applicable costs, levies, fees or charges;
      8. make available to Australian Sailing on request: 
         (i) its most recent annual report to its members, its financial statements and any other information required for the purposes of calculation of membership fees; 
         (ii) any other information Australian Sailing reasonably requires, subject to the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and all other applicable laws, for the collation of sailing industry information for its dealings with government and other sailing community stakeholders.

Click here to view the Australian Sailing constitution