Associations Incorporation Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2000 (Qld)

Queensland Subordinate Legislation 2000 No. 122 Associations Incorporation Act 1981 ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION AMENDMENT REGULATION (No. 1) 2000 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Amendment of pt 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Amendment of pt 2, divs 1 and 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 5 Amendment of ss 3–5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 6 Amendment of s 3 (General references) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 7 Amendment of sch 1 (Undesirable names for incorporated associations—general references) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 8 Amendment of sch 2 (Undesirable names for incorporated associations—olympic and paralympic references) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 9 Amendment of sch 6 (Fees) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

s1 2 s6 Associations Incorporation Amendment (No. 1) No. 122, 2000 ˙ Short title 1. This regulation may be cited as the Associations Incorporation Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2000 . Regulation amended 2. This regulation amends the AssociationsIncorporationRegulation1999 . ˙ Amendment of pt 2 3. Part 2, heading, ‘ UNDESIRABLE ’— omit, insert — ‘ UNSUITABLE ’. ˙ Amendment of pt 2, divs 1 and 2 4. Part 2, divisions 1 and 2, heading, ‘ undesirable ’— omit, insert — ‘ unsuitable ’. ˙ Amendment of ss 3–5 5. Sections 3 to 5, ‘undesirable’— omit, insert — ‘unsuitable’. ˙ Amendment of s 3 (General references) 6.(1) Section 3— insert— ‘(h) a name that may reasonably be mistaken for— (i) the name of another association incorporated under an Act;

s6 3 s6 Associations Incorporation Amendment (No. 1) No. 122, 2000 or (ii) the name of a cooperative registered under the CooperativesAct 1997 ; or (iii) a name registered under the Business Names Act 1962 ; (i) a name that— (i) appears on the National Names Index created by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission; and (ii) is identical to a name reserved or registered under the Corporations Law ; (j) a name likely to offend a reasonable person; (k) a name likely to deceive a reasonable person about the nature or identity of an association.’. (2) Section 3— insert— ‘ (2) In deciding for subsection (1)(i) whether a name appearing on the National Names Index is identical to a name reserved or registered under the Corporations Law, the following matters are to be disregarded— (a) that the definite or indefinite article is the first word in 1 or both names; (b) the use of ‘Proprietary’, ‘Pty’, ‘Limited’, ‘Ltd’, ‘No Liability’, ‘NL’, ‘Incorporated’, ‘Inc’, ‘Cooperative’ or ‘Co-op’ in 1 or both names; (c) that the same word is used in the singular or plural in the names; (d) the type, size and case of letters, the size of any numbers or other characters, spaces between letters, numbers or characters, punctuation marks and any accents used in the names; (e) that 1 name contains a word stated in schedule 1, part 3, column 1 and the other name contains an alternative for that word stated in column 2.’.

s7 4 s7 Associations Incorporation Amendment (No. 1) No. 122, 2000 ˙ Amendment of sch 1 (Undesirable names for incorporated associations—general references) 7.(1) Schedule 1, heading, ‘ UNDESIRABLE ’— omit, insert — ‘ UNSUITABLE ’. (2) Schedule 1— insert — ‘ PART 3 Column 1 Word 1. assoc 2. association 3. assn 4. and 5. Australian 6. Co 7. Company 8. Corporation 9. Coy 10. Number 11. Qland 12. Qld 13. Queensland Column 2 Alternative association or assn assoc or assn association or assoc & Aust Company or Coy Co or Coy Corp Company or Co No Queensland or Qld Queensland or Qland Qld or Qland’.

s8 5 s9 Associations Incorporation Amendment (No. 1) No. 122, 2000 ˙ Amendment of sch 2 (Undesirable names for incorporated associations—olympic and paralympic references) 8. Schedule 2, heading, ‘ UNDESIRABLE ’— omit, insert— ‘ UNSUITABLE ’. ˙ Amendment of sch 6 (Fees) 9. Schedule 6, item 8, ‘undesirable’— omit, insert — ‘unsuitable’. ENDNOTES 1. Made by the Governor in Council on 14 June 2000. 2. Notified in the gazette on 16 June 2000. 3. Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4. The administering agency is the Office of Fair Trading. © State of Queensland 2000