Use Yachting New Zealand prescriptions
Race committees work from Yachting New Zealand prescriptions and Safety Regulations alongside World Sailing rules for 2025-2028. A dispensation can alter the usual safety requirement.
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Start with official guidance for New Zealand. UK templates stay hidden until their rules, terms and examples have been checked for this region.
Last updated 20 August 2026
Check New Zealand rules first
These official sources set the local context for racing, club safety and member data.
Follow the Privacy Act 2020
The Privacy Act applies to clubs and societies that hold personal information. A club must appoint a privacy officer and follow 13 privacy principles.
Open official sourceRecord child safeguarding work
Yachting New Zealand supports club leaders with child safeguarding practices and training. Its coaching recognition pathway includes a Child Safeguarding module.
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A useful guide must match local sailing rules, privacy law, tax and payment systems. The New Zealand library will appear here as each guide passes that check.
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Make affiliation part of the club record.
Yachting New Zealand links racing rules, safety regulations, training and the annual member return.
Keep Yachting New Zealand affiliation current.
Yachting New Zealand represents affiliated yacht and boating clubs. A club must be affiliated if it wants to run racing under the Racing Rules of Sailing.
What the club record should hold.
Assign the annual member return and levy calculation to a named officer. Preserve the affiliation contact used when national support is requested.
Open the official sourceUse Yachting New Zealand prescriptions.
Race committees work from Yachting New Zealand prescriptions and Safety Regulations alongside World Sailing rules for 2025-2028. A dispensation can alter the usual safety requirement.
What the club record should hold.
Store the rules edition, New Zealand prescriptions, safety category, inspection and any approved dispensation.
Open the official sourceTrack Yachting New Zealand training.
Yachting New Zealand supports Learn to Sail delivery through clubs and accredited providers. Dinghy and keelboat pathways need the completed stage to remain visible.
What the club record should hold.
Write the syllabus stage, delivery club, boat pathway and coach status into the person's boating history.
Open the official sourceFollow the Privacy Act 2020.
The Privacy Act applies to clubs and societies that hold personal information. A club must appoint a privacy officer and follow 13 privacy principles.
What the club record should hold.
Record the privacy officer, purpose, access rule and serious-harm assessment route for club data.
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