New South Wales Consolidated Acts

REGISTERED CLUBS ACT 1976 - SECT 41F

41F Disclosure of gifts and remuneration from persons or organisations with contracts with registered clubs

(1) A member of the governing body of a registered club or an employee of a registered club must submit a written return in each year to the club, in accordance with the regulations, declaring any gift or remuneration received by the member or employee from a person or organisation that is a party to a contract with the club.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) if the defendant establishes that:

(a) at the time of the alleged offence there were guidelines prescribed by the regulations and in force under section 41ZC, and

(b) those guidelines included provisions to the effect that the gift or remuneration concerned was not of a type that was required to be declared in a return under that subsection.

(3) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) if the defendant establishes that he or she did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, that the person or organisation from whom or which the gift or remuneration was received was a party to a contract with the registered club concerned.