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FUNDRAISING ACT 1998 - SECT 33A Director may deregister fundraiser

FUNDRAISING ACT 1998 - SECT 33A

Director may deregister fundraiser

The Director may deregister a person as a fundraiser if—

        (a)     the Court orders that any fundraising appeal being conducted, or proposed to be conducted, by the person be stopped; or

        (b)     the Director is satisfied that the registration was obtained by fraud or on the basis of the supply of false, misleading or incomplete information; or

        (c)     the Director is satisfied, in relation to a fundraising appeal being conducted by the person—

              (i)     that the person (or any person assisting the person to conduct or administer the appeal) has failed, with respect to the appeal, to comply with any provision of this Act; or

              (ii)     that the appeal is not being, or will not be, conducted or administered in good faith for the purposes stated to those from whom money was, is being, or will be, sought; or

              (iii)     that—

    (A)     the person falls within one of the categories listed in section 19A(1); or

    (B)     an appeal manager for the appeal falls within one of the categories listed in section 19A(1) or 19B(2); or

    (C)     an associate of the person falls within one of the categories listed in section 19B(3)

(unless the Director knew that the person, appeal manager or associate fell within that category at the time the person conducting the appeal gave the Director details of the person, appeal manager or associate); or

              (iv)     that the conduct of the appeal should be stopped in the public interest; or

        (d)     the Director is satisfied, in relation to a fundraising appeal that the person is conducting, or intends to conduct, on behalf of a class of beneficiary, that the description of the class is too vague, or that the class is insufficiently identified; or

        (e)     the Director is satisfied that it is not in the public interest for the person to conduct a fundraising appeal; or

        (f)     in the case of an incorporated association that was not incorporated in Victoria, that the association has not complied with section 64B(5).

S. 33B inserted by No. 70/2001 s. 14.