New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION ACT 1984 - SECT 17

17 Powers of incorporated associations

(1) Subject to this Act, an incorporated association has the rights, the powers and the privileges of a natural person and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, has power:

(a) to grant a floating charge on property of the association,

(b) to procure the association to be registered or recognised as a body corporate in any place outside the State, and

(c) to do any act that it is authorised to do by any other law.

(2) The rules of an incorporated association may restrict or prohibit the exercise by the association of any of the powers referred to in subsection (1).

(3) An incorporated association has the capacity to exercise its powers in a place outside the State.