New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION ACT 1984 - SECT 12

12 Names

(1) Except with the consent of the Minister, an association shall not be incorporated under a name that is in the opinion of the Director-General undesirable or is a name, or a name of a kind, under which the Minister has for the purposes of this Act directed the Director-General not to incorporate an association.

(2) An association shall not be incorporated under a name that has not been reserved in respect of the association under section 13.

(3) An incorporated association shall have at the end of its name the word “Incorporated” or the abbreviation “Inc.”.

(4) The name of an incorporated association shall appear in legible characters on all business letters, statements of account, invoices, official notices, publications, bills of exchange, promissory notes, endorsements, cheques, orders, receipts and letters of credit of or purporting to be issued or executed by or on behalf of the association and if default is made in complying with this subsection the association shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty not exceeding 2 penalty units.

(5) Nothing in this section requires an incorporated association to use the word “Incorporated” or the abbreviation “Inc.” at the end of its name when the name appears on any document (other than a document referred to in subsection (4)) or on any other matter.