21Constitution of incorporated associations

21 Constitution of incorporated associations (1) An incorporated association is, subject to this Act and the rules of the association, taken to be constituted, under the name stated in the certificate of incorporation issued for the association, by the persons who are its members from time to time. (2) For subsection (1), persons who were, immediately before the date on which an association was incorporated— (a) for an association for which the certificate was issued under section 19—members of the association, or members of the group proposing to form the association; or (b) for an association incorporated under section 27—the members of the associations that amalgamated under that section; are taken to have been members of the association at the time the association was incorporated.