Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C00927:clause:1_4:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C00927
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 4 (pt 4/21)
Character Range: 150509–153315

on the register.

Statistical information to be provided

 (4) It must have agreed to give the Secretary to the Department of Environment, Sport and Territories, within a reasonable period after the end of each income year, statistical information about gifts made to the public fund during that income year.

30-275  Further requirement for a body corporate or a co-operative society

  A body corporate (except a statutory authority) or a co-operative society is an environmental organisation only if:
 (a) its membership consists principally of bodies corporate; or
 (b) it has at least 50 members who are individuals that are:
 (i) regarded as financial members; and
 (ii) entitled to vote at a general meeting of it; or
 (c) the Minister for Environment, Sport and Territories has determined that, because of special circumstances, it does not have to meet either of the requirements in paragraph (a) or (b).

30-280  What must be on the register

 (1) The Secretary to the Department of Environment, Sport and Territories must enter on the register each *environmental organisation, and the public fund it maintains, that he or she has been directed to enter by the Treasurer and the Minister for Environment, Sport and Territories.

 (2) The Treasurer and the Minister may so direct the Secretary only if the Minister has notified the Treasurer that he or she is satisfied that an organisation is an *environmental organisation. The notification must be in writing.

 (3) The direction must be in writing and must specify the day on which the organisation and public fund are to be entered on the register. The day must be the day on which the direction is given or a later day.

 (4) The Treasurer and the Minister for Environment, Sport and Territories must have regard to the policies and budgetary priorities of the Commonwealth Government in deciding whether to give a direction.

30-285  Removal from the register

 (1) The Treasurer and the Minister for Environment, Sport and Territories may direct the Secretary to the Department of Environment, Sport and Territories to remove an *environmental organisation, and the public fund it maintains, from the register.

 (2) The direction must be in writing and must specify the day on which the organisation and public fund are to be removed from the register. The day must be the day on which the direction is given or a later day.

Subdivision 30-F—Register of cultural organisations

Guide to Subdivision 30-F

30-290  What this Subdivision is about

      This Subdivision requires the establishment of a register of cultural organisations. Section 30-15 allows you to deduct a gift that you make to a fund that is on the register.

Table of sections

Operative provisions

30-295 Establishing the register
30-300 Meaning of cultural