Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CORPORATIONS ACT 1989 No. 109 of 1989 - SECT 362

362. (1) This section applies to:

   (a)  a registered body; or

   (b)  a body corporate that is a registrable Australian corporation and
        carries on business interstate.

(2) The body shall set out in legible characters on every public document of
the body that is issued, signed or published:

   (a)  in any case-the body's name;

   (b)  unless the body is an Australian bank-the name of the body's place of
        origin; and

   (c)  if:

        (i)    the liability of the body's members is limited;
     (ii)  the last word of the body's name is neither the word "Limited" nor
the abbreviated "Ltd."; and

        (iii)  the body is not an Australian bank;
notice of the fact that the liability of the body's members is limited.

(3) The body shall set out its name, in legible characters, on every eligible
negotiable instrument of the body that is signed or issued.

(4) On:

   (a)  every public document of the body that is issued, signed or published;
        and

   (b)  every eligible negotiable instrument of the body that is signed or
        issued; the body shall set out in legible characters, after the body's
        name
when it first appears, the expression "Australian Registered Body Number" and
the body's registration number.

(5) The body may comply with subsection (4) by setting out:
(a) the abbreviation "Aust." instead of the word "Australian";
(b) the abbreviation "Regd." instead of the word "Registered";
(c) the abbreviation "No." instead of the word "Number"; or
(d) the abbreviation "A.R.B.N." instead of the expression "Australian
Registered Body Number".

(6) An officer of the body, or any other person, shall not, on the body's
behalf, issue, sign or publish a public document of the body that contravenes
subsection (2) or (4).

(7) An officer of the body, or any other person, shall not sign or issue, or
authorise to be signed or issued, on the body's behalf, an eligible negotiable
instrument of the body that contravenes subsection (3).

(8) A person who contravenes subsection (7) is liable to the holder of the
eligible negotiable instrument for the amount due on it unless that amount is
paid by the body.

(9) Unless the body is an Australian bank, it shall paint or affix and keep
painted or affixed, in a conspicuous position and in letters easily legible,
on the outside of its registered office and of every office and place at which
its business is carried on and that is open and accessible to the public:

   (a)  its name and the name of its place of origin;

   (b)  if the liability of its members is limited and the last word of its
name is neither the word "Limited" nor the abbreviated "Ltd." -notice of the
fact that the liability of its members is limited; and
(c) in the case of its registered office-the expression "Registered Office".

(10) If the body is an Australian bank, it shall paint or affix its name, and
shall keep its name painted or affixed, in a conspicuous position and in
letters easily legible, on the outside of every office or place at which its
business is carried on and that is open and accessible to the public.