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CORPORATIONS (ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER) ACT 2006 - SECT 376.5 Translations of instruments and books

CORPORATIONS (ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER) ACT 2006 - SECT 376.5

Translations of instruments and books

  (1)   If:

  (a)   this Act requires a person to lodge an instrument (including any certificate, contract or other document) or a certified copy of such an instrument; and

  (b)   the instrument is not written in English;

the person must lodge at the same time a certified translation of the instrument into English.

Penalty:   5 penalty units.

  (1A)   An offence against subsection   (1) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:   For strict liability , see section   6.1 of the Criminal Code .

  (2)   If under this Act:

  (a)   an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation is required to make an instrument (including any certificate, contract or other document) available for inspection; and

  (b)   the instrument is not written in English;

the corporation must keep a certified translation of the instrument into English at:

  (c)   its registered office if it is registered as a large corporation; or

  (d)   its document access address if it is registered as a small or medium corporation.

Penalty:   5 penalty units.

  (2A)   An offence against subsection   (2) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:   For strict liability , see section   6.1 of the Criminal Code .

  (3)   If:

  (a)   a person has a right to inspect a book of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation; and

  (b)   the book, or a part of the book, is not in English; and

  (c)   the person asks the corporation to give the person an English translation of the book or that part of the book;

the corporation must give the person (free of charge) an English translation of the book, or that part of the book, within a reasonable time after the person asks for it.

Penalty:   5 penalty units.

  (4)   To avoid doubt, subsection   (3) applies even if the book concerned includes minutes that are kept by means of an audio, or audio - visual, recording.

  (5)   An offence against subsection   (3) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:   For strict liability , see section   6.1 of the Criminal Code .