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ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION ACT 1984 - SECT 3

Definitions

3 Definitions

In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:
"agent" includes attorney.
"approved", in relation to a form, means approved by the Director-General.
"association" includes:

(a) a society, club, institution or other body, and
(b) an incorporated association.
"committee", in relation to an association, means the body which governs or has the management of the association.
"Court" means the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
"date of incorporation", in relation to an incorporated association, means the date of incorporation of the association under this Act.
"Director-General" means the Director-General of the Department of Fair Trading.
"financial year", in relation to an incorporated association, means:
(a) a period of 12 months, or such other period (whether longer or shorter than 12 months) not exceeding 18 months as the incorporated association (subject to the requirements of section 26 as to the holding of annual general meetings of the association) resolves, commencing on the date of incorporation of the association, and
(b) each period of 12 months, or such other period (whether longer or shorter than 12 months) not exceeding 18 months as the incorporated association (subject to the requirements of section 26 as to the holding of annual general meetings of the association) resolves, commencing at the expiration of the previous financial year of the incorporated association.
"incorporated association" means an association or other body incorporated under this Act.
"member", in relation to an association, means a person, body or organisation that is, under the rules of the association, a member of the association or, where the rules do not provide for membership of the association, a person, body or organisation that is a member of the committee of the association.
"model rules" means the model rules prescribed under section 73.
"officer", in relation to an association, includes:
(a) a member of the committee of the association,
(b) the public officer of the association,
(c) a secretary, treasurer, executive officer or employee of the association, and
(d) a person occupying or acting in any of those positions, whether or not validly appointed to occupy or duly authorised to act in the position,
but does not include a patron or the holder of some other honorary office that confers no right to participate in the administration of the affairs of the association nor any member of the association that is not an individual.
"property" includes real and personal property, any estate or interest in any property, real or personal, any debt, any thing in action, and any other right or interest, whether in possession or not.
"public officer", in relation to an incorporated association, means the person who is for the time being the public officer of the association under this Act.
"regulation" means a regulation made under this Act.
"rules", in relation to an association, includes the constitution, regulations and by-laws, if any, of the association.


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