2025 review of the NZSI constitution

We’re currently reviewing and updating the NZSI constitution — the document that guides how our organisation runs — to meet our legal obligations as a charitable trust and to ensure our structure continues to reflect our shared values.

This is a great chance for you, as a member of the Suzuki community, to have your say. The draft constitution is now available, and we warmly invite you to read it and let us know what you think. Your feedback will help shape the final version, which must be adopted by 2026.

Please send any thoughts or suggestions to the administrator at admin@suzuki.org.nz by the end of June. We’d love to hear from you.

Introductory Rules

Definitions

Purposes

Tikanga, Kawa, Culture or Practice

Act and Regulations

Registered Office and Contact Person

Members

• Minimum Number of Members
• Types of Members
• Becoming a Member: Consent and Process
• Members’ Obligations and Rights
• Subscriptions and Fees
• Ceasing to be a Member
• Obligations After Membership Ceases
• Becoming a Member Again

General Meetings

• Procedures
• Annual General Meetings
• Special General Meetings

Minutes

Officers, National Executive, PAG, and Branch Committees

• Composition and Election of Officers
• Functions and Powers of Officers
• Qualifications and Duties of Officers
• Removal and Cessation

National Executive Meetings and Sub-committees

Professional Advisory Group (PAG)

• Composition, Principles, Roles and Responsibilities
• PAG Meetings and Sub-committees

Branch Committees

• Composition, Duties, and Meetings
• Branch Sub-committees

Conflicts of Interest

Records

• Register of Members
• Interests Register
• Access to Information

Finances

• Control, Banking, and Accounting
• Balance Date

Dispute Resolution

• Complaints, Processes, Decision Makers

Liquidation and Removal from Register

• Liquidation
• Removal
• Surplus Assets

Amending the Constitution

Bylaws