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Associations Incorporation Act 1991
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11 Copies of documents
(1) If a person requests, the registrar must give the person—
(a) a copy of, or an extract from, or a certified copy or certified
extract from, any document lodged with the registrar-general
under this Act or the repealed Act; and
(b) if the person is a member of the committee or the public officer
of an association—a certified copy of the certificate of
incorporation of the association.
Note A person cannot request or obtain a copy of another person’s contact
details that are contained in a lodged document if the other person has
asked for their contact details to be kept confidential under s 13A.
(2) In this section—
(a) a reference to a copy of, or an extract from, a document includes
a reference to a print-out of the matters or some of the matters
contained in the document and recorded in a computerised
database comprising the matters contained in documents issued
by or lodged with the registrar-general; and
(b) a reference to a document includes a reference to—
(i) an application lodged with the registrar-general under this
Act; and
(ii) if a reproduction or transparency of a document lodged
with the registrar-general has been incorporated in a
register—the reproduction or transparency; and
(iii) a display on the screen of a computer terminal of a matter
or matters recorded in the computerised database referred
to in paragraph (a);
but does not include a reference to any document disposed of by
the registrar-general under section 12.