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Keeping It Legal E Ai Ki Te Ture has been designed as a starting point for people in voluntary and non-profit organisations who want to know about the laws that may affect them. It can be used as a tool in developing risk management strategies. 

The Office for the Community and Voluntary Sector (the OCVS) and the New Zealand Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations (the Federation) jointly produced Keeping It Legal E Ai Ki Te Ture in response to a continuing need for all organisations, groups, trusts, and societies to have simple, accurate and easiliy found information abou their legal obligations. It responds to consultation with community and voluntary sector organisations, which was carried out by the OCVS in 2002/03, and is based on the manual Risk Management: Managing Legal Risks for Voluntary Organisations, first produced by the Federation in September 2000.

All updates to Keeping It Legal E Ai Ki Te Ture will be included in the online version at www.keepingitlegal.net.nz 

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The document is a folder with seperate publications on the following:

1) This kit- what it's for and how to use it

2) The legal form of your organisation

3) Laws you need to know about- people, activities, premises and environment

4) Keeping on track- compliance and insurance

5) Fact sheet on unincorporated groups

6) Fact sheet on incorporated societies

7) Fact sheet on trusts and charitable trust boards

8) Fact sheet on relationships between national, branch, and local offices

9) Fact sheet on charities comission

10) Fact sheet on taxation

11) Fact sheet on people- volunteers, employees and contractors

12) Fact sheet on health and safety 

13) Fact sheet on human rights and discrimination

14) Fact sheet on premises and environment

15) Fact sheet on trading and other activities

16) Fact sheet on intellectual property 

17) Fact sheet on Torts (civil wrongs) and criminal offences

18) Fact sheet on insurance as a risk management tool

19) Fact sheet on contracts