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Incorporated Societies Act 2022

Register, regulations, amendments, and other miscellaneous provisions - Register of incorporated societies - Register established

234: Registrar may remove or omit information and may restrict public access

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"The Registrar can hide or limit access to some information to protect people."

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The Registrar can remove information from the register about a society if they think it is in the public interest. You can ask the Registrar to restrict public access to information about your society or you as an individual. The Registrar can also do this on their own if they think it is necessary to protect someone's privacy or personal safety, or if you are a protected person under the Family Violence Act 2018. The Registrar can set conditions for accessing the information. However, if you are protected under a court order, the Registrar must follow that order. This rule does not affect the Official Information Act 1982.

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Part 6Register, regulations, amendments, and other miscellaneous provisions
Register of incorporated societies: Register established

234Registrar may remove or omit information and may restrict public access

  1. The Registrar may remove or omit from the register any information that relates to a society if the Registrar considers, in the public interest, that the information should not form part of the register.

  2. The Registrar may, on a request from a society or an individual referred to in paragraph (b) or (c) or on the Registrar’s own motion, prevent or restrict public access to any information that relates to—

  3. the society if the Registrar considers, in the public interest, that public access to that information should be prevented or restricted; or
    1. an individual if the Registrar considers that public access to that information would be likely to prejudice the privacy or personal safety of any person; or
      1. an individual if the individual is—
        1. a protected person in relation to a protection order under the Family Violence Act 2018; or
          1. a person for whose benefit a suppression provision or order applies under any legislation.

          2. For the purposes of subsection (2), the Registrar may prevent or restrict access subject to any terms and conditions that the Registrar thinks fit.

          3. However, in the case of subsection (2)(c), the Registrar must ensure that those terms and conditions are consistent with the protection order or suppression provision or order.

          4. This section does not limit the Official Information Act 1982.

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