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Associations Act 2003
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9 Certificate of incorporation
(1) If the Director receives an application under section 8, the Director
may, if the Director considers it appropriate, issue to the association
a certificate of incorporation.
(2) If the association is a trading association, the certificate of
incorporation must state that fact.
(3) The Director must refuse to issue a certificate of incorporation:
(a) to an association if its name is a prescribed unauthorised
name unless the Minister consents to its incorporation under
that name; and
(b) in the case of a trading association if:
(i) the ethnic community specified in the application is not a
prescribed ethnic community; or
(ii) satisfied the constitution of the association is
unreasonable or unfair.
(4) The Director may refuse to issue a certificate of incorporation on
another ground the Director considers appropriate.