Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts With respect to the
registry of societies, the following provisions shall have
effect —
(1) No society shall
be registered which does not consist of 7 persons at least.
(2) For the purpose of
registry, an application to register the society, signed by 7 members and
the secretary, and 2 copies of the rules, written or printed, or partly
written and partly printed, shall be sent to the Registrar.
(3) No society shall
be registered under a name identical with that under which any other existing
society is registered, or so nearly resembling such name as to be likely, or
in any name likely, in the opinion of the Registrar, to mislead the members or
the public as to its nature or its identity; and no society shall change its
name without the sanction of the Registrar, as herein after provided.
(4) The words
“society, limited” shall be the last words in the name of every
society registered under this Act.
(5) On the lodgment
with the Registrar of any application to register any society, there shall be
paid to the Registrar the prescribed fee.
[Section 4 amended by No. 43 of 1969
s. 4.]