CORPORATIONS (ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER) ACT 2006 - SECT 169.1 Bringing, or intervening in, proceedings on behalf of a corporation

CORPORATIONS (ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER) ACT 2006 - SECT 169.1

  (1)   A person who is:

  (a)   either:

  (i)   a member, former member, or person entitled to be registered as a member of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation or of a related body corporate; or

  (ii)   an officer or former officer of the corporation; or

  (iii)   the Registrar; and

  (b)   acting with leave granted under section   169 - 5;

may:

  (c)   bring proceedings on behalf of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation; or

  (d)   intervene in any proceedings to which an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation is a party for the purpose of taking responsibility on behalf of the corporation for those proceedings, or for a particular step in those proceedings (for example, compromising or settling them).

  (2)   Proceedings brought on behalf of the corporation must be brought in the corporation's name.

  (3)   Any right a person may have otherwise had at general law to bring, or intervene in, proceedings on behalf of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation is abolished.

Note:   This section does not prevent a person bringing, or intervening in, proceedings on the person's own behalf in respect of a personal right.