New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION ACT 1984 - SECT 10

10 Certificate of incorporation

(1) Subject to subsection (2), where an application is made in accordance with section 9, the Director-General shall incorporate the association or proposed association under this Act by granting in respect of it a certificate of incorporation in an approved form.

(2) The Director-General may refuse to incorporate an association or proposed association pursuant to subsection (1) if the Director-General is satisfied that incorporation of the association or proposed association under this Act would be inappropriate or inconvenient:

(a) by reason of the Director-General’s assessment of:

(i) the likely scale or nature of the activities of the association or proposed association,

(ii) the likely value or nature of the property of the association or proposed association, or

(iii) the extent or nature of the dealings which the association or proposed association has, or is likely to have, with the public, or

(b) for any other prescribed reason.