New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION ACT 1984 - SECT 13

13 Reservation of name

(1) A person may apply to the Director-General in an approved form for the reservation of a name set out in the application as:

(a) the name of a proposed incorporated association, or

(b) the name to which an incorporated association proposes to change its name.

(2) If the Director-General is satisfied that an application made under subsection (1) for the reservation of a name is made in good faith and the name is available for reservation, the Director-General shall, if the prescribed fee has been paid, reserve the name for a period of 3 months from the date of lodgment of the application and, where the Director-General so reserves the name, the name shall be deemed to have been reserved from that date.

(3) Where:

(a) at any time during a period for which a name is reserved under this section (whether or not pursuant to the exercise on a previous occasion or previous occasions of a power under this section) and application is made to the Director-General for an extension of that period, and

(b) the Director-General is satisfied that the application is made in good faith,

the Director-General may extend that period for a further period of 3 months.

(4) The reservation of a name under this section in respect of a proposed incorporated association or an incorporated association does not of itself entitle the proposed incorporated association or the incorporated association to be incorporated by that name, either originally or on a change of name.