ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION REFORM ACT 2012 (NO. 20 OF 2012) - SECT 222 Regulations

ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION REFORM ACT 2012 (NO. 20 OF 2012) - SECT 222

    (1)     The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—

        (a)     the particulars to be included in—

              (i)     applications or notifications to the Registrar;

              (ii)     certificates of registration issued by the Registrar;

        (b)     prescribing forms for the purposes of this Act;

        (c)     the fees payable to the Registrar in relation to—

              (i)     applications and notifications;

              (ii)     lodgement of documents;

              (iii)     inspection of the register of incorporated associations;

              (iv)     the production of copies of documents or duplicate certificates of incorporation;

        (d)     the reasons for which the Registrar may refuse to incorporate an association or other body or decide that the continued incorporation of an association is inappropriate;

        (e)     prescribing rules to be model rules, being rules that make provision for each matter specified in Schedule 1 and any prescribed matter, whether or not they make provision for other matters;

        (f)     any other matters (in addition to the matters specified in Schedule 1) that the model rules must provide for;

        (g)     matters which the financial statements of an incorporated association must deal with;

        (h)     prescribing a class of documents to be a class of business documents;

              (i)     prescribing a body corporate to be a prescribed body corporate for the purposes of Part 8;

        (j)     modifications to—

              (i)     the Auditing Standards on Review Engagements, the Australian Accounting Standards and the Australian Auditing Standards as they apply for the purposes of this Act;

              (ii)     the provisions of the Corporations Act in relation to which a matter is declared to be an applied Corporations matter;

        (k)     additional information to be included in the register of incorporated associations;

        (l)     the documents contained in the register of incorporated associations that a person may inspect;

        (m)     prescribing the amount of total revenue of an incorporated association—

              (i)     below which the association is a tier one association;

              (ii)     above which the association is a tier three association;

        (n)     the security the liquidator of an incorporated association must give;

        (o)     the value of the gross assets of an incorporated association below which the association may apply to the Registrar to cancel its incorporation;

        (p)     the fees an incorporated association may charge a member for the inspection or the copying of its rules and minutes;

        (q)     prescribing fines, not exceeding 5 penalty units, that the committee of an incorporated association may impose on a member who breaches its rules;

        (r)     prescribing offences against this Act or the regulations to be infringement offences;

        (s)     in relation to each infringement offence, prescribing the penalty that is payable to expiate the offence;

        (t)     generally prescribing any other matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.

    (2)     The regulations may—

        (a)     be of general or limited application;

        (b)     differ according to differences in time, place or circumstances;

        (c)     apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any document whether—

              (i)     wholly or partially or as amended by the regulations; or

              (ii)     as in force at the time the regulations are made or at any time before then; or

              (iii)     as published or amended from time to time;

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        (d)     impose penalties, not exceeding 5 penalty units, for a contravention of the regulations.

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PART 16—TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS, CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS AND REPEALS