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Frequently asked Questions
Here is a list of FAQs to which answers have been supplied. If you have any other questions, please use the “Contact Us” option on the Home page ”Menu” https://www.rebus.nz/ and email us your inquiry. We aim to answer all questions with 48 hours.
A membership application form is made available from your selected Club for completion. It usually requires a Nominator and Seconder. If you are not known to any Club member, you will be advised as to how to meet this requirement.
Most Clubs charge a one-off joining fee of between $5 -$20.
A membership application form is made available from your selected Club for completion. It usually requires a Nominator and Seconder. If you are not known to any Club member, you will be advised as to how to meet this requirement.
A. Click on the “Menu- Map of Clubs” button on this site’s Homepage. Here you will find contact telephone numbers of most Presidents and Secretaries.
Forty-five spread primarily throughout the North Island with four in the South Island.
The REBUS name has been trade marked in Australia and is available to any similar organisation seeking affiliation.
No. External fundraising is expressly prohibited by each Club’s Constitution.
Rebus NZ provides its affiliates with a copy of an obligatory Constitution to qualify becoming a Rebus Club and an advisory set of By-laws. These may be viewed by clicking on the “Constitution for Affiliated Clubs” button on this site’s Home page “Menu” .
No, the Standard Constitution for affiliated Clubs (see above) states in Article II d) “It shall be non-political and non-sectarian. It shall not endorse any candidate for public office and shall not take corporate action at any meeting with the intention of influencing the policies or decisions of governments”.
Yes, you are free to choose that which may suit you best.
No, but most Clubs have several activities during the year to which partners are welcome, e.g Mid-winter, or Christmas luncheon and outings.
Clubs always welcome new members, especially if they are willing to serve on a committee in the future. Again, the decision if invited to become a committee member, will be yours alone.
Yes. Cover is up to $10 million. See the “Liability Insurance” button on our home page “Menu”.
No, but our website contains helpful guidance and links to travel insurance providers and brokers to whom on-line applications can be made. See the “Travel Insurance” button on our home “Menu” page.
Yes there are currently two monthly publications which are emailed to the Officers of each Club which have provided email addresses.
The first is Rebus Club News which encompasses contributions submitted by individual Clubs consisting of reports on their activities and photos to Illustrate. Clubs are encouraged to on-send Club News to their members as details of Speakers and Club activities can be very useful for local adoption.
The second is Chairman’s Bi-monthly Report. This is intended primarily for committee but also encouraged to be sent to the general membership where appropriate. It mainly deals with administrative matters.
Provided club activities and objectives are conducted in accordance with the adopted obligatory Constitution. – No. Rebus believes in a “hands off” approach enabling Clubs to be self-governing.
We consider absolute transparency is important and distribute a professionally reviewed annual Statement of Financial Performance to all affiliates within the month following our balance date. It is also uploaded to this website for public viewing and lodged with the Registrar of Incorporated Societies. See “Financial Report” button on our home page