AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF MAN AND SOCIETY
INCORPORATION ORDINANCE 1968

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 35 of 1968

	The purpose of this Ordinance is to incorporate the Institute for the Study of Man and Society.

	The Institute is already in existence as an unincorporated body.  The nature of its activities is such that corporate status is now desirable.

	The objects of the Institute are sociological in character and appear from clause 3 of its Constitution, which is set out in the First Schedule to the Ordinance.

	The control of the Institute is vested in its Council.  The composition of the Council appears from clause 6 of the Constitution of the Institute, which provides that the Council is to consist of persons from or appointed by –

(a)	Australian Frontier Incorporated,
(b)	the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia,
(c)	the Australian National University and
(d)	the National Library.

	Having regard to the objects of the Institute and to the composition of its Council it is considered appropriate that the Institute should be incorporated by an Ordinance.