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CORPORATIONS (ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER) ACT 2006 - SECT 29.15

Pre-incorporation requirement

             (1)  An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation meets the pre-incorporation requirement if 75% of the persons listed in the application for registration as persons who consent to become members of the corporation on registration have:

                     (a)  authorised the applicant to apply for the incorporation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation; and

                     (b)  approved the proposed constitution provided to the Registrar under subsection 29-20(2) as the constitution of the corporation; and

                     (c)  if the internal governance rules that would apply to the corporation will include one or more replaceable rules--agreed to those replaceable rules so applying; and

                     (d)  nominated, as persons who will become directors of the corporation, the persons specified in the application as persons who will become directors on registration; and

                     (e)  if the application indicates that the corporation is expected to be a small or medium corporation in respect of the corporation's first financial year--nominated, as a person who will become a contact person of the corporation, the person specified in the application as a person who will become contact person on registration; and

                      (f)  if the application indicates that the corporation is expected to be a large corporation in respect of the corporation's first financial year--nominated, as a person who will become the corporation's secretary, the person specified in the application as a person who will become the corporation's secretary on registration.

             (2)  The document evidencing the agreement under paragraph (1)(c) must:

                     (a)  refer by section or subsection number (as appropriate) to the replaceable rules that will apply without modification to the corporation; and

                     (b)  set out the terms of the replaceable rules (if any) that are being modified or replaced by the proposed constitution.



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