New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION ACT 1974 - SECT 3

3 Incorporation of association

(1) On payment of the appropriate fee prescribed by or under the Companies Act 1961 , an instrument purporting to be certified by the President of an association as a true copy of the constitution, or of the constitution and rules, of the association may be lodged in the office of the Corporate Affairs Commission.

(2) Upon the Minister being satisfied that an instrument has been lodged pursuant to subsection (1) he may, by notification published in the Gazette, declare that a specified association, being the association to which the instrument relates, is incorporated as provided by this Act.

(3) Upon the publication, pursuant to subsection (2), of a notification relating to an association:

(a) the association is dissolved, and

(b) a corporation that corresponds to that association is constituted with the corporate name conferred by section 4.