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ABORIGINAL COUNCILS AND ASSOCIATIONS ACT 1976 No. 186 of 1976 - SECT 61 Registrar may request explanation.

ABORIGINAL COUNCILS AND ASSOCIATIONS ACT 1976 No. 186 of 1976 - SECT 61

Registrar may request explanation.
61. (1) Where-

   (a)  the Governing Committee of an Incorporated Aboriginal Association
        fails to carry out its obligations under section 59; or

   (b)  a report filed under sub-section 59 (4) or a report furnished under
        sub-section 60 (1) draws attention to any irregularity in the
        financial affairs of an Incorporated Aboriginal Association, the
        Registrar may, by notice in writing served on the public officer of
        the Association, request the Governing Committee of the Association to
        furnish to the Registrar, within the time specified in the notice, an
        explanation, in writing, why the Council has failed to carry out those
        obligations or why that irregularity has occurred, as the case may be.

(2) Where the Registrar considers that an explanation furnished by the
Governing Committee of an Incorporated Aboriginal Association under
sub-section (1) is satisfactory, he may, by notice served on the public
officer of the Association, require the Governing Committee to take such
action as is specified in the notice within the period specified in the
notice, being action designed to remedy the matter the subject of the
explanation by the Governing Committee.

(3) Where-

   (a)  the Governing Committee of an Incorporated Aboriginal Association
        fails to furnish an explanation in accordance with sub-section (1);

   (b)  the Registrar considers that an explanation furnished by the Governing
        Committee of an Incorporated Aboriginal Association under sub-section
        (1) is not satisfactory; or

   (c)  the Governing Committee of an Incorporated Aboriginal Association
        fails to comply with a requirement served under sub-section (2), the
        Registrar-

   (d)  may petition the Court that the Association be wound up; or

   (e)  may commence an investigation under section 68 into the conduct of the
        affairs of the Association.

(4) Where the Governing Committee of an Incorporated Aboriginal Association
fails to carry out its obligations under section 56 or 57, the Registrar may
petition the Court that the Association be wound up.