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Associations Act 2003
10Director to notify refusal to incorporate association
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10 Director to notify refusal to incorporate association
(1) If the Director refuses to issue a certificate of incorporation to an
association, the Director must:
(a) give written notice to the applicant of the refusal and the
reasons for it; and
(b) include in the notice an invitation to the committee of the
association to make changes to:
(i) the application for incorporation; or
(ii) the constitution of the association; and
(c) include in the notice an invitation to the applicant to advise the
Director, within the time specified in the notice, of a change
made in pursuance of the invitation under paragraph (b); and
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(d) include in the notice an invitation to the applicant to provide to
the Director, within the time specified in the notice, particulars
of the changes accompanied by a statutory declaration made
by the applicant for incorporation declaring that:
(i) the committee has made the changes identified in the
declaration; and
(ii) the applicant is authorised by the committee to provide
the Director with those changes.
(2) If the Director receives the documents referred to in
subsection (1)(d), the Director must, under section 9, issue or
refuse to issue to the association a certificate of incorporation.