Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00492:section:6:p132
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00492
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 6 (pt 132/175)
Character Range: 505878–508507

to be kept at the corporation's document access address, the corporation must make the book available for inspection at the document access address within 7 days after the person seeking to inspect the book asks the corporation in writing to inspect the book.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
 (4) An offence against subsection (2) or (3) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.
 (5) A person permitted by this Act to inspect a book may make copies of, or take extracts from, the book and any person who refuses or fails to allow a person so permitted to make a copy of, or take an extract from, the book commits an offence.
Penalty: 5 penalty units.
 (6) An offence against subsection (5) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.

376‑5  Translations of instruments and books
 (1) If:
 (a) this Act requires a person to lodge an instrument (including any certificate, contract or other document) or a certified copy of such an instrument; and
 (b) the instrument is not written in English;
the person must lodge at the same time a certified translation of the instrument into English.
Penalty: 5 penalty units.
 (1A) An offence against subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.
 (2) If under this Act:
 (a) an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation is required to make an instrument (including any certificate, contract or other document) available for inspection; and
 (b) the instrument is not written in English;
the corporation must keep a certified translation of the instrument into English at:
 (c) its registered office if it is registered as a large corporation; or
 (d) its document access address if it is registered as a small or medium corporation.
Penalty: 5 penalty units.
 (2A) An offence against subsection (2) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.
 (3) If:
 (a) a person has a right to inspect a book of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation; and
 (b) the book, or a part of the book, is not in English; and
 (c) the person asks the corporation to give the person an English translation of the book or that part of the book;
the corporation must give the person (free of charge) an English translation of the book, or that part of the book, within a reasonable time after the person asks for it.
Penalty: 5 penalty units.
 (4) To avoid doubt, subsection (3) applies even if the book concerned includes minutes that are kept by means