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Associations Incorporation Act 1991
117Constructive notice of documents etc
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117 Constructive notice of documents etc
(1) A person is not taken to have knowledge of—
(a) the statement of the objects or the rules, or any of the content of
that statement or the rules, of an association; or
(b) a document or the content of a document relating to an
(c) any particulars relating to an association;
only because—
(d) the statement, the rules, the document or a statement or notice
of the particulars has been lodged with the registrar-general; or
(e) the statement, the rules, the document or a statement or notice
of the particulars is referred to in another document lodged with
the registrar-general.
(2) In any proceedings to which an incorporated association or a
guarantor of an obligation of an incorporated association and a person
dealing with the association or a person who has acquired rights from
the association are parties, the association or the guarantor is not
entitled to adduce evidence that—
(a) the rules of the association have not been complied with; or
(b) the most recently appointed public officer of the association of
whose appointment the registrar-general was notified is not the
public officer of the association;
unless the person—
(c) had actual knowledge of that fact at the relevant time; or
(d) ought to have had knowledge of that fact at the relevant time
because of the person’s connection or relationship with the
Part 10 Notification and review of decisions
Part 10 Notification and review of
decisions
118 Meaning of reviewable decision—pt 10
reviewable decision means a decision mentioned in
schedule 3, column 3 under a provision of this Act mentioned in
column 2 in relation to the decision.