Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CORPORATIONS ACT 1989 No. 109 of 1989 - SECT 144

144. (1) Persons desiring the conversion of a close corporation into a company
may lodge an application in the prescribed form for the registration of the
close corporation under this Division.

(2) The application shall contain the prescribed information and matters and
shall be accompanied by:

   (a)  in any case-the prescribed documents (if any); and

   (b)  unless subsection (3) applies-the memorandum, and the articles (if
        any), of the proposed company.

(3) If:

   (a)  the proposed company's memorandum states the matters that it is
        required by virtue of paragraphs 143 (1) (a), (b), (c) and (f) to
        state; and

   (b)  the proposed company's constitution contains proprietary company
        provisions; the application shall:

   (c)  set out the matters stated in the memorandum pursuant to those
        paragraphs; and

   (d)  state that the constitution contains proprietary company provisions.

(4) The application shall be signed by:

   (a)  if subsection (3) applies-each subscriber; or

   (b)  otherwise-at least one subscriber; to the proposed company's
        memorandum, in the presence of at least one witness (not being another
        subscriber).

(5) A witness to a signature that is required by this section shall attest the
signature and add his or her address.