Rebus NZ Incorporated

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.

Click on the“ Map” page. Here you will find contact telephone of the Club's Secretary and the time and place the Club meets.

Forty-five spread primarily throughout the North Island with four in the South Island.

No. External fundraising is expressly prohibited by each Club’s Constitution.

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 “Liabiity Insurance” page.

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” page

Yes there are currently two monthly publications which are emailed to the Secretary of each Club. 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 encourage 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 Rebus Chronicles. This is intended primarily for committee use and is emailed to the Club Secretary. It 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.

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” on the menu

Yes, in May each year attended by delegates from across NZ - as provided for and conducted in accordance with the Rebus NZ Incorporated’s Constitution.

We consider absolute transparency is important and distributea 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” page

The REBUS name has been trade marked in Australia and is available to any similar organisation seeking affiliation.