New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHARITABLE FUNDRAISING ACT 1991 - SECT 22

22 Keeping of records

(1) A person or organisation that conducts or has conducted a fundraising appeal must keep, in accordance with this section, records of income and expenditure in relation to each such appeal.

(2) The records must:

(a) be kept in writing in the English language or so as to enable the records to be readily accessible and readily convertible into writing in the English language, and

(b) include any particulars required by the regulations, and

(c) subject to the conditions of any authority, be kept at all times at the registered office of the person conducting the appeal, and

(d) be kept for a period of at least 7 years (or such shorter period as the Minister may approve) after the receipt of the income or the incurring of the expenditure to which they relate.

(3) A person or organisation that contravenes this section is guilty of an offence. In the case of an unincorporated organisation, every trustee or other person who, at the time of the offence, was a member of the governing body of the organisation is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.