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Associations Act 2003
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88 Non-disclosure
(1) An officer or former officer of an incorporated association to which
this Division applies:
(a) must, to the best of the person's knowledge and belief, fully
and truly disclose to the appropriate officer:
(i) all the property of the association; and
(ii) how, to whom, for what consideration and when the
association disposed of a part of its property, except a
part disposed of in accordance with the constitution of
the association; and
(b) must deliver to the appropriate officer or as the appropriate
officer directs:
(i) all the property of the association in the person's custody
or under the person's control and that the person is
required by law to deliver up; or
(ii) all documents in the person's custody or under the
person's control belonging to the association and that
the person is required by law to deliver up; and
(c) must not, within 5 years before the relevant day or on or after
that day:
(i) fraudulently conceal or remove a part of the
association's property to the value of $100 or more; or
(ii) conceal a debt due to or payable by the association; or
(iii) fraudulently part with, alter or make an omission in, or be
privy to fraudulently parting with, altering or making an
omission in, a document affecting or relating to the
affairs of the association; or
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(iv) by a false representation or other fraud, obtain on credit
for or on behalf of the association, property that the
association has not subsequently paid for; or
(v) fraudulently pawn, pledge or dispose of property of the
association that has been obtained on credit and has not
been paid for; and
(d) must not fraudulently make a material omission in a statement
relating to the affairs of the association; and
(e) must not, knowing or believing that a false debt has been
proved by a person, fail for a period of one month or more to
inform the appropriate officer of the knowledge or belief; and
(f) must not prevent the production of a document affecting or
relating to the affairs of the association; and
(g) must not, within 5 years before the relevant day or on or after
that day, attempt to account for a part of the association's
property by making entries in the association's documents
showing fictitious transactions, losses or expenses; and
(h) must not, within 5 years before the relevant day or on or after
that day, make a false representation for the purpose of
obtaining the consent of a creditor of the association to an
agreement relating to the affairs of the association or to the
winding up.
(2) A person must not take in pawn or pledge or otherwise receive
property from a person knowing it to be pawned, pledged or
disposed of in circumstances that amount to an offence against
subsection (1)(c)(v) by the other person.