Skip to main content
Home
Select a topic:
Select Resource Type
Main navigation
  • Societies Act
  • Recordkeeping
  • Employment
  • Privacy
Header Top Menu
  • About Us
  • Glossary
Home
Header Top Menu
  • About Us
  • Glossary
Select a topic:
Select Resource Type
  • Societies Act
  • Recordkeeping
  • Employment
  • Privacy
society-act

Societies Act

The Societies Act sets out the rules and procedures for incorporating, managing, and dissolving a society. In this area you’ll learn about creating & maintaining a constitution & bylaws, the rules governing the board of directors, best practices for monitoring financial statements, setting AGM requirements and more.

Start with our Legal Help Guides and answer a series of questions to see where your organization stands. Once completed, you’ll receive a To-Do list of items that you can share with your team.

You can also navigate directly to fact sheets, FAQs, sample documents, and helpful links in the Societies Act Resource drop down menu below.

Are you considering starting a new non-profit? Start with our Practical Tips Fact Sheet.

Societies-Act
  • Legal Help Guides (5)
  • Fact Sheets (8)
  • FAQs (8)
  • Sample Documents (4)
  • Helpful Links (9)

Helpful Links

Bylaws - Yukon Government

Visit website

Yukon Government Societies Act Sample Bylaws

Conflict of Interest

Visit website

Learn how to identify, address, and handle conflicts of interest on your board

Government of Canada - Charities and Giving

Visit website

Charities listings, registration and resources to run a charity

Meeting Minutes

Visit website

How to take meeting minutes

Membership

Visit website

Learn strategies to maintain a healthy organization and membership

Societies Handbook - Yukon Government

Visit website

Virtual Meetings

Visit website

How to hold a virtual AGM in compliance with the Societies Act

Yukon Corporate Online Registry - Yukon Online Services

Visit website

Access to online government services for the Yukon.

Yukon Societies Act

Visit website

Resources to start, maintain, or dissolve a society and more.

Need more help?

Not finding what you are looking for? Make a suggestion.

Pacific Legal Education & Outreach Society (PLEO)

Suite 100 - 938 Howe Street

Vancouver, BC

V6Z 1N9

Contact us

Subscribe

Join Our Mailing List

globe facebook twitter youtube

Territorial Acknowledgement

PLEO acknowledges and appreciates that our organization is located on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We work throughout the province of British Columbia and across Canada, making a practice of learning from and engaging with the Nations upon whose lands we work.

Privacy Policy
  • Disclaimer / Privacy Policy

Copyright 2026 Pacific Legal Education & Outreach Society (PLEO)