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HOK HAMUTOT



Hi All,

The following is a short extract from the Official Translation of Hok Hamutot:

AMUTOT LAW, 5740-1980

1.	Two or more persons who wish to incorporate as a body corporate for a lawful purpose not aimed at the 
distribution of profits to its members may establish as an amuita (non-profit society). An amuta shall be 
constituted by registration in the Register of Amutot.

2.	An application for registration of an amuta shall be submitted by the founders to the Registrar of 
Amutot (hereinafter referred to as "the Registrar"), indicating the name, objects and address in Israel of the 
amuta and the names, address and identity numbers of the founders.

3.	......

9.	 Every amuta shall have rules, the effect of which shall be that of a contract by which the amuta and 
its members undertake to comply with the provisions hereof.

10. (a)	The founders may submit rules for the amuta to the REGISTRAR. wHERE THEY DO NOT DO SO, THE MODEL RULES 
SET OUT IN THE sCHEDULE SHALL BE THE RULES OF THE AMUTA.

19.(a)	Every amuta shall have a general meeting, a board and a control committee, and it may have additional 
agencies as provided in its rules.

(b) The general meeting may decide that an auditor or a body approved for this purpose by the Registrar  ... 
shall be appointed instead of a control committee.

Ya'akov Leighton