Associations Incorporation Act Amendment Act 1947 (WA)

ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION.

11° and 12° GEO. VT., No. LXXI.

No. 71 of 1947.

AN ACT to amend the Associations Incorporation Act,

1895.

[Assented to 10th January, 1948.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.    This Act may be cited as the Associations Incor- Short title.

poration Act Amendment Act, 1947, and shall be read as one with the Associations Incorporation Act, 1895 (No. 20 of 1895), hereinafter called the principal Act.

The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Associations Incorporation Act, 1895-1947. principal AdCitation of as amended.

2.

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Amendment 3.

Section five of the principal Act is amended by inserting after the words "time to time" in the fourth line of subsection (4) the words "or the copy of any alteration, variation, rescission or addition from time to time made to the objects of the association required to be filed by subsection (4) of section seven A of this Act."

of s. 5.

Amendment

of s. 7. 4. Section seven of the principal Act is amended by

deleting subsection (4) and substituting the following:

(4) A written statement verified by the affidavit of the person or persons authorised for the time being to use the common seal of the association that the sanction required by the constitution of the association to any such alteration of name or such alteration, variation, rescission or addition to the rules and regulations or provisions of the trust deed, or deeds has been duly given shall be conclusive evidence that such sanction has been duly given.

New section

7A. 5. The principal Act is amended by inserting after

section seven a new section as follows :-

Change of

objects of	7A. (1) Any association may from time to time, with the sanction required by its constitution, alter, vary, rescind or add to the objects for which it is constituted:
association.
Provided that no such alteration, variation, rescis- sion of or addition to the objects of an association shall be of any force or effect unless and until the Attorney General certifies that after such alteration, variation, rescission or addition is made, such association will continue to be an association to which the facilities given by this Act ought to be extended and until the provisions of subsection (4) of this section have been complied with.

No alteration, variation, rescission or addition

to the objects of an association shall affect any then

existing rights or obligations of the association.

(2)

(3) A written statement verified by the affidavit of the person or persons authorised for the time being to use the common seal of the association that the sanction required by the constitution of the

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association to any such alteration, variation, rescis- sion or addition to the objects of the association has been duly given shall be conclusive evidence that such sanction has been duly given.

(4)

A copy of any alteration, variation, rescission or addition from time to time made to the objects of an association shall be filed in the Supreme Court and shall be verified by the affidavit of the person or persons authorised for the time being to use the common seal of the association.

(5)

The production of the statement of the objects of an association for the time being filed in the Supreme Court or an office copy thereof and the production of the copy of all alterations, variations, rescissions or additions made to such objects filed under subsection (4) of this section or an office copy thereof shall be conclusive evidence in all proceed- ings and transactions whatsoever of the objects of the association and of any such alteration, variation, rescission or addition to such objects having been duly and legally made.