New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION ACT 1984 - SECT 59

59 Register

(1) The Director-General shall keep a register for the purposes of this Act in such form and containing such particulars as the Director-General thinks fit.

(2) The Director-General shall keep a copy of a certificate of incorporation granted under section 10, 14, 47 or 48 and a reference in this section to a document lodged with the Director-General includes a reference to such a copy.

(3) A person may, upon payment of the prescribed fee:

(a) inspect any document lodged with the Director-General, not being a document that has been destroyed or otherwise disposed of, or

(b) require a copy of, or extract from, any document that the person is entitled to inspect pursuant to paragraph (a) to be given, or given and certified, by the Director-General.

(4) Where a reproduction or transparency of a document lodged with the Director-General has been incorporated in the register kept under subsection (1), a reference in subsection (3) (a) to inspection of a document so lodged shall be read and construed as a reference to inspection of the reproduction or transparency.

(6) The Director-General may, if in the opinion of the Director-General it is no longer necessary or desirable to retain it, destroy or dispose of:

(a) any document lodged or registered in respect of an incorporated association that has been dissolved or has ceased to be registered for not less than 10 years, or

(b) any document a transparency of which has been incorporated in the register kept under subsection (1), or

(c) any document an electronic reproduction of which has been incorporated in the register kept under subsection (1) at least 3 months before the destruction or disposal of the document.