Registration of Royal Charters and constitution
4 Registration of Royal Charters and constitution
The chief executive shall keep in the chief executive’s office all copies of the documents and records transmitted to the chief executive pursuant to this section and shall register the Royal Charters and constitution and any amendments thereto as if they were the rules of an incorporated association.
Every document to which the Girl Guides Association Act 1970 applied, of force and effect immediately before the commencement of the Girl Guides Association Act Amendment Act 1982, shall, on and from that commencement, be deemed to have been lodged in the office of the chief executive.
Copies (certified under the seal of the corporation to be true copies) of any new, amended, or supplementary Royal Charter granted to the Association or the corporation, and all amendments of the constitution made, or any new constitution adopted, after the commencement of the Girl Guides Association Act Amendment Act 1982 shall be lodged with the chief executive after the grant, making or adoption thereof with as little delay as possible.
Upon receipt of a document required by subsection (4) to be lodged with the chief executive, the chief executive shall register it as if it were an alteration of the rules of an incorporated association.
The production of a copy of a document required by this section to be lodged with the chief executive, certified by the chief executive to be correct, shall be received as conclusive evidence of the contents of the document by all courts and persons having by law or consent of parties authority to hear, receive and examine evidence.
The corporation shall cause to be lodged with the chief executive—
within 1 month after a person ceases to be, or becomes, a member of the council a return in a form approved by the chief executive notifying the chief executive of the change and containing with respect to each then member of the council, the following particulars—
the full name, the usual residential address and the business occupation (if any) of each person holding office as a member of the council and of the State executive officer of the corporation;
the situation of the office or place at which the business of the corporation is conducted; and
within 1 month after a person becomes State executive officer of the corporation, a return in a form approved by the chief executive notifying the chief executive of that fact and specifying the full name, address and other occupation (if any) of that person; and
within 1 month after the date of any change in the situation of the office or place at which the business of the corporation is conducted notice in a form approved by the chief executive of the situation of that office or place.
There shall be payable to the chief executive in respect of each document (including any return or notice) lodged with the chief executive pursuant to this section a fee of $2 or such other fee as may be prescribed in substitution therefor by the Governor in Council by order in council.
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