Div 1The Commission

Division 1—The Commission 5—Administration by the Commission (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Commission is responsible for the administration of this Act. (2) The Commission is, in relation to the administration of this Act, subject to the control and direction of the Minister. 6—Inspection of documents (1) For the purposes of this Act, the Commission must keep, in such form as it thinks fit— (a) a register of incorporated associations; and (b) such other registers as the Commission thinks fit. (2) Subject to subsection (2a) a person may, on payment of the prescribed fee— (a) inspect a register kept by the Commission under this Act; or (b) inspect any document registered or held by the Commission under this Act (not being a document that has been destroyed or otherwise disposed of); or (c) obtain from the Commission— (i) a certified copy of, or extract from, an entry in a register kept under this Act or the repealed Act; or (ii) a certified copy of a certificate of incorporation issued under this Act or the repealed Act; or (iii) a certified copy of, or extract from, any document registered or held by the Commission under this Act, or registered or held under the repealed Act. (2a) The Commission may, at the request of a person whose residential address appears in a register or document that is available for inspection under this section, take any steps necessary to ensure that the person's address is not publicly disclosed under this section. (3) If a reproduction or transparency of a document is produced for inspection, a person is not entitled pursuant to subsection (2) to require the production of the original of that document. (4) The reference in subsection (2)(c) to a certificate or document includes, where a reproduction or transparency of that certificate or document has been incorporated with a register kept by the Commission, a reference to that reproduction or transparency and, where such a reproduction or transparency has been so incorporated, a person is not entitled pursuant to that subsection to a copy of, or extract from, the original of that certificate or document. 7—Power of Commission to refuse to register or reject document etc (1) If the Commission is of the opinion that a document submitted to the Commission— (a) contains matter contrary to law; or (b) contains matter that, in a material particular, is false or misleading in the form or context in which it is included; or (c) by reason of an omission or misdescription, has not been duly completed; or (d) does not comply with the requirements of this Act; or (e) contains an error, alteration or erasure, the Commission may refuse to register or may reject the document and may request— (f) that the document be appropriately amended or completed and resubmitted; or (g) that a fresh document be submitted in its place; or (h) where the document has not been duly completed, that a supplementary document in the prescribed form be submitted. (2) The Commission may request a person who submits a document to the Commission to produce to the Commission such other document, or to furnish to the Commission such information, as the Commission thinks necessary in order to form an opinion whether it should refuse to register or should reject the document. (3) If a person fails to comply with a request of the Commission made pursuant to subsection (1) or (2) within 14 days after the service on the person of the request, a court of summary jurisdiction may, on an application of the Commission, order the person to comply with the Commission's request within the time specified in the order. (4) An order made under subsection (3) may provide that all costs of, and incidental to, the application are to be borne by the person responsible for the non-compliance. (5) A person who contravenes or fails to comply with an order made under subsection (3) is guilty of an offence. 9—Annual report (1) The Commission must, on or before 31 December in each year, deliver to the Minister a report on the administration of this Act during the period of 12 months that ended on the preceding 30 June. (2) The Minister must cause a copy of the report to be laid before each House of Parliament.