Co-operative Housing and Starr-Bowkett Societies Act 1998
85Publication of name
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85 Publication of name
85 Publication of name
(1) A co-operative housing body must ensure that its registered name appears in legible letters on—
(a) all business letters, notices (other than advertisements) and other publications (other than advertisements) signed, issued or published by the body, and
(b) all bills of exchange, cheques, promissory notes, endorsements, orders for money or goods, invoices, receipts and other documents signed or issued in the body’s business.
(2) On each advertisement published by a co-operative housing body, the body must use its registered name, or a name approved in relation to the body under section 80.
(3) A co-operative housing body must ensure that its registered name and the words Registered Office are displayed in a conspicuous place and in legible letters, on the outside of its registered office.
(4) A co-operative housing body must ensure that its registered name is displayed in a conspicuous place and in legible letters on the outside of every other office or place in which its business is carried on.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(5) A co-operative housing body does not contravene subsection (1), (3) or (4) merely because the body, when displaying its registered name, also displays a name approved in relation to the body under section 80.