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ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION (AMENDMENT) BILL
1992
NEW SOUTH WALES
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This Explanatory Note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament)
The object of this Bill is to amend the Associations Incorporation Act 1984:
to make it clear that unincorporated bodies or organisations can be members of
incorporated associations; and
to enable an incorporated association, subject to the requirement that it is able
to pay or meet its debts and liabilities, to apply to the Commissioner for
Consumer
Affairs to have its incorporation cancelled; and
to remove the requirement that on the winding up of an incorporated
association the surplus property of the association must be vested in a similar
association; and
to provide that appeals against decisions of the Commissioner under the Act
may be made to a Local Court instead of to the Supreme Court; and
to provide that the rules of an incorporated association are to make provision
for the resolution of internal disputes between the members and between the
members and the association; and
to provide that an incorporated association is required to maintain a register of
committee members which will be available for inspection; and
to provide that an incorporated association is required to keep proper
accounting records and minutes of proceedings at meetings; and
to remove the requirement that an incorporated association must notify the
Commissioner on becoming a trustee; and
to make other miscellaneous changes.
Each amendment is explained in detail in the Bill in the explanatory note relating to
the amendment concerned.
Clause 1 specifies the short title of the proposed Act.
Clause 2 provides for the commencement of the proposed Act on a day or days to
be appointed by proclamation.
Clause 3 gives effect to the Schedule of amendments.
Clause 4 states that the explanatory matter contained in the Bill does not form part
of the Bill.
Schedule 1 contains the amendments described above.