Queensland Consolidated Acts

ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION ACT 1981 - SECT 54

54 Form in which rules must be kept

(1) The secretary of an incorporated association must ensure that the association’s rules, as lodged with the chief executive, or a copy of the rules that is given to someone, are set out in printed legible form.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.

(2) If an incorporated association’s rules are not written in the English language, the secretary of the association must ensure that a translation of the rules into English, certified by a person to be a correct translation, accompanies any copy of the rules that is given to someone.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.

(3) However, the secretary of an incorporated association does not commit an offence against subsection (2) if the person to whom the copy of the rules is given indicates he or she does not require a translation of the rules.