Membership

cohealth members are entitled to

• receive notices of, attend and be heard at any general meeting, including the Annual General Meeting (AGM)
• vote at the Annual General Meeting or any Special General Meetings and
• notices of, attend and be heard at any general meeting,

cohealth Member Application Requirements

Applicants must be an eligible person. As described in the Constitution, an eligible person means an individual human being who is not an employee of the Company and who, in the Board’s opinion, satisfies at least one of the eligibility criteria. The eligibility criteria are:

• live, work or study in the community where cohealth provides services
• previously or currently receiving services from cohealth
• demonstrated interest in cohealth which the Board considers to be necessary or desirable to further the Company’s objects (as set out in Clause 2 of the Constitution).

Should you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact the Company Secretary at: secretary@cohealth.org.au.

Code of Conduct

cohealth’s Code of Conduct outlines the standard of behaviour expected of all cohealth Members when interacting in professional and personal circumstances with each other, the cohealth Board, cohealth staff, cohealth volunteers, and other community members and stakeholders. All Members are requested to familiarise themselves with the Company Member Code of Conduct (Download PDF – 250 KB)

cohealth Membership Conditions

• cohealth Ltd (trading as cohealth) is a public company limited by guarantee governed by a Constitution and the Corporations Act 2001.
• cohealth does not currently charge an application fee or an annual subscription for Membership.
• Under the Company Constitution the liability of Members is limited. In applying to become a member of cohealth you understand that you undertake to contribute $5.00 to the assets of the Company if it is wound up while you are a Member, or within one year afterwards, for payment of the company’s debts and liabilities contracted before you ceased to be a Member; and costs and expenses of winding up.
• Members are required to comply with the Company Constitution. To obtain a copy of the Constitution, please email: secretary@cohealth.org.au.
• A Member has the right to receive notices of, to attend and to be heard at any general meeting, and has the right to vote at any general meeting.
• A Member’s membership ends at the close of the next AGM that is held in an odd numbered year, such as 2019, 2021, 2023. Prior to the AGM, members will be asked to reapply to be re-admitted.
• The application to be re-admitted to membership and any required supporting information, must be lodged on or before a date specified by the Board, being a date before the relevant AGM.
• If a Member fails to apply to be readmitted to membership, the Member’s membership will end automatically.
• A Member may resign from membership of the Company by giving written notice to the Secretary. The resignation of a Member is deemed to take effect from the date of receipt of the notice of resignation or such later date as is provided in the notice. The resignation does not limit the Member’s liability under the Constitution.

To apply

To apply to become a cohealth member, please complete the form below and submit online.

Application process

• Eligible persons submit a cohealth Member Application to the Company Secretary.
• Member applications received by the 15th of the month, will be reviewed by the Board in the same month (except January). Member applications received on or after the 15th of the month, will be reviewed by the Board in the month following receipt.
• cohealth Board review the membership application at the monthly Board Meeting (except January).
• The outcome of the membership application is notified to the applicant following the Board Meeting.
• Members are to notify the Company Secretary in writing if their address changes. Contact details above.

For further information

Should you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact the Company Secretary at: secretary@cohealth.org.au .