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CORPORATIONS (ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER) ACT 2006 - SECT 376.5

Translations of instruments and books

             (1)  If:

                     (a)  this Act requires a person to lodge an instrument (including any certificate, contract or other document) or a certified copy of such an instrument; and

                     (b)  the instrument is not written in English;

the person must lodge at the same time a certified translation of the instrument into English.

Penalty:  5 penalty units.

          (1A)  An offence against subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:          For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .

             (2)  If under this Act:

                     (a)  an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation is required to make an instrument (including any certificate, contract or other document) available for inspection; and

                     (b)  the instrument is not written in English;

the corporation must keep a certified translation of the instrument into English at:

                     (c)  its registered office if it is registered as a large corporation; or

                     (d)  its document access address if it is registered as a small or medium corporation.

Penalty:  5 penalty units.

          (2A)  An offence against subsection (2) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:          For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .

             (3)  If:

                     (a)  a person has a right to inspect a book of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation; and

                     (b)  the book, or a part of the book, is not in English; and

                     (c)  the person asks the corporation to give the person an English translation of the book or that part of the book;

the corporation must give the person (free of charge) an English translation of the book, or that part of the book, within a reasonable time after the person asks for it.

Penalty:  5 penalty units.

             (4)  To avoid doubt, subsection (3) applies even if the book concerned includes minutes that are kept by means of an audio, or audio-visual, recording.

             (5)  An offence against subsection (3) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:          For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .



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