Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00492:section:6:p33
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00492
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 6 (pt 33/175)
Character Range: 254891–257601

corporation is registered as a large corporation; or
 (b) the corporation's document access address if the corporation is registered as a small or medium corporation.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
 (2) The register must be open for inspection by any person.
 (3) An offence against subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.

180‑22  Register of members and register of former members may be maintained in one document
  Nothing in this Act prevents an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation from maintaining its register of members, and its register of former members, in the one document.

180‑25  Right to inspect and get copies

Right to inspect
 (1) Any person has a right to inspect an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation's register of members and register of former members.
Note 1: A corporation commits an offence under section 376‑1 if it does not allow inspection of a register.
Note 2: Other provisions that are relevant to the inspection of a register are:
(a) section 180‑45 (evidentiary value); and
(b) section 376‑1 (place and times for inspection); and
(c) section 376‑20 (form).
 (2) If the register is not kept on computer, the corporation must allow the person to inspect the register itself.
 (3) If the register is kept on a computer, the corporation must (unless the person and the corporation agree that the person can access the information by computer) allow the person to inspect a hard copy of the information on the register.

Inspection fees
 (4) A member of the corporation may inspect the register without charge. Other people may inspect the register only on payment of any fee (up to the prescribed amount) required by the corporation.

Right to get copies
 (5) The corporation must give a person a copy of the register (or a part of the register) within 7 days if the person:
 (a) asks for the copy; and
 (b) pays any fee (up to the prescribed amount) required by the corporation.
The Registrar may allow a longer period to comply with the request.
Penalty: 10 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.

180‑30  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation to make register of members available at AGM
 (1) An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation must:
 (a) make the register of members available for inspection (without charge) by members at the AGM; and
 (b) ask each member attending the AGM to:
 (i) check the entry for that member in the register; and
 (ii) inform the corporation of any corrections that need to be made to that entry.
Penalty: