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100 Orders against persons concerned with incorporated
associations
(1) In this section, a reference to a prescribed person is, in relation to
an incorporated association, read as a reference to:
(a) a liquidator or provisional liquidator of the association; or
(b) a person authorised by the Director to make an application
under this section in relation to the association.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), if, on application by the Director or a
prescribed person, the Supreme Court is satisfied:
(a) a person is guilty of fraud, negligence, default, breach of trust
or breach of duty in relation to an incorporated association;
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(b) the association has suffered, or is likely to suffer loss or
damage as a result of the fraud, negligence, default, breach of
trust or breach of duty;
the Court may make an order or orders as it considers appropriate
against or in relation to the person (including either or both of the
orders specified in subsection (4)) and may so make an order
against or in relation to a person even though the person may have
committed an offence in relation to the matter to which the order
relates.
(3) The Court may not make an order against a person under
subsection (2) unless the Court has given the person the
opportunity:
(a) to give evidence himself or herself; or
(b) to call witnesses to give evidence; or
(c) to adduce other evidence in relation to the matters to which
the application relates; or
(d) to employ, at his or her own expense, a legal practitioner to
put to him or her or to another witness the questions the Court
considers appropriate for the purpose of enabling him or her to
explain or qualify an answer or evidence given by him or her.
(4) The orders that may be made under subsection (2) against a
person include:
(a) an order directing the person to pay money or transfer
property to the association; and
(b) an order directing the person to pay to the association the
amount of the loss or damage.
(5) This section does not prevent a person from instituting other
proceedings in relation to matters for which an application may be
made under this section.