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Associations Incorporation Act 1991
72Annual statement of accounts
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72 Annual statement of accounts
(1) Before the end of the period within which the first annual general
meeting or any subsequent annual general meeting of an incorporated
association is required to be held under section 68 or 69, the
committee of the association must prepare a statement of the
association’s accounts.
(2) The statement of accounts must not be misleading and must give a
true and fair account of—
(a) the income and expenditure of the association during the most
recently ended financial year of the association; and
(b) the assets and liabilities of the association at the end of that
(c) any mortgages, charges or other securities of any description
affecting any property of the association at the end of that
(d) for each trust of which the association was the trustee during a
period in that financial year, being part or all of that financial
year—
(i) the income and expenditure of the trust during that period;
and
(ii) the assets and liabilities of the trust at the end of that period;
and
(iii) any mortgages, charges or other securities of any
description affecting any of the property of the trust during
that period; and
(e) any prescribed matters.