New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION ACT 1984 - SECT 8

8 Authority to apply for incorporation

(1) An association which is eligible to be incorporated under this Act may, by special resolution:

(a) authorise a person (not being a person under 18 years of age) who is resident in the State to incorporate the association under this Act,

(b) approve a statement of objects of the proposed incorporated association, and

(c) approve rules of the proposed incorporated association which comply with section 11 or approve the adoption of the model rules as the rules of the proposed incorporated association.

(2) For the purpose of forming themselves into an incorporated association, 5 or more persons together may, in respect of a proposed association which would be eligible to be incorporated under this Act:

(a) authorise a person (not being a person under 18 years of age) who is resident in the State to incorporate the proposed association under this Act,

(b) approve a statement of objects of the proposed incorporated association,

(c) approve rules of the proposed incorporated association which comply with section 11 or approve the adoption of the model rules as the rules of the proposed incorporated association, and

(d) nominate 2 or more of their number to be the first members of the committee of the proposed incorporated association.

(3) A person authorised under subsection (1) or (2) to incorporate an association or proposed association may make application to the Director-General for the incorporation of the association or proposed association under this Act and may perform all such acts and do all such things as may be necessary for securing the incorporation of the association or proposed association under this Act, notwithstanding, in the case of an association referred to in subsection (1), anything to the contrary in the rules, if any, of the association.