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ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION ACT 1985 - SECT 42

42—Power of Commission to require transfer of activities

        (1)         Where the Commission is of the opinion—

            (a)         that an incorporated association has ceased to be an association eligible to be incorporated under this Act; or

            (b)         that the undertaking or operations of an incorporated association are being carried on by a body corporate incorporated under some other Act, or would more appropriately be carried on by such a body corporate,

it may give notice to the association under this section.

        (2)         If, within three months of the date of a notice under subsection (1), the incorporated association requests the Commission to transfer its undertaking to a body corporate specified in the request, the Commission may, by instrument published in the Gazette, order that the undertaking of the association be transferred accordingly.

        (3)         On the date specified in the order under subsection (2)—

            (a)         the incorporated association is dissolved; and

            (b)         the property of the association becomes the property of the body corporate referred to in the order; and

            (c)         the rights and liabilities of the association (whether certain or contingent) become rights and liabilities of the body corporate referred to in the order.

        (4)         The Registrar-General must—

            (a)         on the application of a body corporate in which any estate or interest in real property has vested by virtue of this section; and

            (b)         on production of such duplicate instruments of title and other documents as the Registrar-General may require,

register the vesting of that estate or interest in land in the body corporate.

        (5)         The vesting of property in a body corporate by virtue of this section, and any instrument evidencing or giving effect to that vesting, are exempt from stamp duty.



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