6Definition of office

#### 6 Definition of office (1) In this Act, office, in relation to an association, means: (a) an office of president, vice president, secretary or assistant secretary of the association; or (b) the office of a voting member of a collective body of the association, being a collective body that has power in relation to any of the following functions: (i) the management of the affairs of the association; (ii) the determination of policy for the association; (iii) the making, alteration or rescission of rules of the association; (iv) the enforcement of rules of the association, or the performance of functions in relation to the enforcement of such rules; or (c) an office the holder of which is, under the rules of the association, entitled to participate directly in any of the functions referred to in subparagraphs (b)(i) and (iv), other than an office the holder of which participates only in accordance with directions given by a collective body or another person for the purpose of implementing: (i) existing policy of the association; or (ii) decisions concerning the association; or (d) an office the holder of which is, under the rules of the association, entitled to participate directly in any of the functions referred to in subparagraphs (b)(ii) and (iii); or (e) the office of a person holding (whether as trustee or otherwise) property: (i) of the association; or (ii) in which the association has a beneficial interest. In this subsection, association means an organisation or branch of an organisation, or an industrial association or branch of an industrial association. (2) In this Act, a reference to an office in an organisation or industrial association includes a reference to an office in a branch of the organisation or association.