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ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION ACT 2015 - SECT 12

ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION ACT 2015 - SECT 12

12 .         Restrictions as to names of associations

                The Commissioner must not incorporate an association under this Act by a name that in the opinion of the Commissioner is —

            (a)         offensive or undesirable; or

            (b)         likely to mislead the public as to the object or purpose of the association; or

            (c)         identical to the name by which an association in existence is, or is taken to be, incorporated under this Act or which resembles any such name in a manner likely to mislead the public; or

            (d)         identical to, or likely to be confused with, the name of any other body corporate or a business name registered to another body under the Business Names Registration Act 2011 (Commonwealth); or

            (e)         prescribed for the purposes of this section; or

            (f)         of a kind that is so prescribed.