10Director to notify refusal to incorporate association

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

Associations Act 2003 13 (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.