Fundraising Act 1998
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70A Register
(1) The Director must maintain a register for the purposes of this Act.
(2) The Director must ensure that the register contains any details concerning fundraising appeals required by this Act.
(3) The register may contain—
(a) the name and contact details of registered fundraisers, any person designated as a contact person by a fundraiser and any designated person; and
(b) details of fundraising appeals that are being, or that are intended to be conducted, by registered fundraisers;
(c) details of the beneficiaries on whose behalf fundraising appeals are being, or are intended to be, conducted;
S. 70A(3)(ca) inserted by No. 2/2009 s. 18(a).
(ca) details of the total amount of proceeds raised in fundraising appeals conducted by registered fundraisers that has been or is estimated will be distributed to the beneficiaries of the appeals;
S. 70A(3)(d) amended by No. 2/2009 s. 18(b).
(d) in relation to a particular person or organisation, details of the percentage of the proceeds raised in fundraising appeals by the person or organisation that have been or will be passed on to the beneficiaries of the appeals (regardless of whether this information relates to current appeals or not); and
(e) any other information permitted by the regulations.
(4) A person may inspect the register at any time that the office in which the register is kept is open for business.
(5) The Director may publish the register, or any details in the register, in any manner or form that the Director considers to be appropriate.
(6) The Director may amend the register at any time to correct any mistakes in the register.
S. 70B inserted by No. 70/2001 s. 20.