AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

AMENDMENTS TO ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 17 of 1977

		The purpose of these amending regulations is to make consequential amendments to the existing Associations Incorporation Regulations (Regulation No. 6 of 1954 – hereafter referred to as the ‘Principal Regulations’) following the insertion of a new scale of association incorporation fees in the Associations Incorporation Ordinance.

2.		The new scale of association incorporation fees will be set out in a schedule to the Associations Incorporation Ordinance and not in a schedule to the Associations Incorporation Regulations as is the case with the present fees which are set out in the Second Schedule to the Associations Incorporation Regulations.  This will bring the position in relation to association incorporation fees into line with the position in relation to companies fees and business names fees (companies fees are set out in the Second Schedule to the Companies Ordinance and business names fees are set out in a Schedule to the Business Names Ordinance.).

3.		These Regulations will come into operation on 1 August 1977, the date on which the new scale of fees will come into effect (reg. 1).

4.		Certain provisions of the existing Regulations which relate to fees will be repealed by the new scale of fees set out in a schedule to the Associations Incorporation Ordinance.  These provisions will be repealed (regs. 3, 4 and 7).

5.		Certain consequential amendments will also be made to the wording of the existing Regulations (regs. 2, 5 and 6).