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Voluntary Registration with the Department of Social Development
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Voluntary Registration with the Department of Social Development
The NPO Act encourages non-profit companies, trusts and voluntary associations to register with The Directorate in the Department of Social Development. However, organisations only have to register if they want to and if they meet certain requirements, which are:
- it must not operate for profit (it must be a non-profit organisation)
- it must have a separate legal identity to its members
The purpose of voluntary registration is to make NPOs more accountable and transparent to the public by prescribing certain rules on how they must function.
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