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Incorporated Societies Act 2022

Administration of societies - Committee and officers - Officers’ duties

60: Use of information and advice

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"Using reliable information and advice to help you do your job"

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You can rely on information and advice when doing your job as an officer. You can use reports and data from employees you think are reliable. You can also use advice from professionals who know what they are talking about. You can trust other officers or subcommittees you do not work with, as long as they are experts in that area. However, you must act in good faith and ask questions when you need to. You should not rely on information if you know it is wrong. You can find similar information in the 1993 No 105 s 138 legislation.

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Committee and officers: Officers’ duties

60Use of information and advice

  1. An officer, when exercising powers or performing duties as an officer, may rely on reports, statements, and financial data and other information prepared or supplied, and on professional or expert advice given, by any of the following persons:

  2. an employee of the society whom the officer believes on reasonable grounds to be reliable and competent in relation to the matters concerned:
    1. a professional adviser or expert in relation to matters that the officer believes on reasonable grounds to be within the person’s professional or expert competence:
      1. any other officer or subcommittee of officers upon which the officer did not serve in relation to matters within the officer’s or subcommittee’s designated authority.

        1. However, subsection (1) applies to an officer only if the officer—

        2. acts in good faith; and
          1. makes proper inquiry where the need for inquiry is indicated by the circumstances; and
            1. has no knowledge that the reliance is unwarranted.

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