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Associations Act 2003
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104 Form and evidentiary value of books
(1) A book required by this Act to be kept or prepared may be kept or
prepared:
(a) by making entries in a bound or looseleaf book; or
(b) by recording or storing the matters concerned by means of a
mechanical, electronic or other device; or
(c) in another manner approved by the Director.
(2) Subsection (1) does not authorise a book to be kept or prepared by
a mechanical, electronic or other device unless:
(a) the matters recorded or stored will be capable of being
reproduced in written form; or
(b) a reproduction of those matters is kept in a written form
approved by the Director.
(3) An incorporated association must take all reasonable precautions,
including any prescribed precautions for guarding against damage
to, destruction of or falsification of or in, and for discovery of
falsification of or in, a book or part of a book required by this Act to
be kept or prepared by the association.
(4) A writing that purports to reproduce matters recorded or stored by
means of a mechanical, electronic or other device is, unless the
contrary is established, to be taken to be a reproduction of those
matters.