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Incorporated Societies Act 2022

Register, regulations, amendments, and other miscellaneous provisions - Amendments to Charitable Trusts Act 1957

261: Section 8 replaced (Society may apply for incorporation)

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"How to apply to become an incorporated society"

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You can no longer apply to incorporate a society as a board under this Part on or after the commencement date. If you applied before the commencement date, your application will be considered as if the Incorporated Societies Act 2022 did not exist. The commencement date is when section 261 of the Incorporated Societies Act 2022 comes into force, and you can find more information about reregistering as a society under the Incorporated Societies Act 2022 in section 30A.

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Part 6Register, regulations, amendments, and other miscellaneous provisions
Amendments to Charitable Trusts Act 1957

261Section 8 replaced (Society may apply for incorporation)

  1. Replace section 8 with:

    8Applications for incorporation may no longer be made by societies

    1. An application for the incorporation of a society as a board under this Part may not be made on or after the commencement date.

    2. An application for the incorporation of a society as a board under this Part that is made before the commencement date must be considered and determined as if the Incorporated Societies Act 2022 had not been enacted.

    3. In this section, commencement date means the date on which section 261 of the Incorporated Societies Act 2022 comes into force.

    4. See section 30A, which allows a society that is incorporated as a board under this Part to choose to reregister as a society under the Incorporated Societies Act 2022.