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Two or more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations can join together to form a new corporation. This is called ‘amalgamating’.
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There are many reasons to transfer registration to the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (CATSI Act). 
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You can apply to have a deregistered corporation reinstated. There are also some circumstances under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (CATSI Act) when ORIC or the courts may re-register a corporation.
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Register a new corporation; transfer registration of an existing entity; amalgamate 2 or more corporations; or reinstate registration of a deregistered corporation.
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LawHelp is a referral service that connects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations with legal support.Application processTo apply for help through LawHelp:
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An idea to build an inclusive cricket carnival sparked a corporation’s journey to support overall community wellbeing through sport.
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Family and community are always welcome at Yarkuwa Indigenous Knowledge Centre. It’s an open space where visitors drop in to view exhibitions and talk to staff. Staff and community members bring children to play and be involved.
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ORIC has a range of corporate documents that set our regulatory approach and priorities.
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This framework outlines the Registrar's approach to ensuring corporations comply with the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006. 
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A corporation’s income, assets and number of staff in a financial year determine its size. The size of a corporation changes its responsibilities under the CATSI Act. This is so corporations do an amount of administration and reporting that is fair to their abilities.
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A general meeting is a meeting where corporation members are given an opportunity to participate in the corporation’s affairs.
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The Australian Government’s public data policy requires ORIC to make non-sensitive data ‘open’ by default. Open means the data is freely available for anyone to use, reuse, and redistribute.
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The Native Title Act grants the Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations (the Registrar) the power to issue an opinion about whether a fee is one that the body corporate may charge.
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Every corporation has a rule book. The rule book is the document that says what the corporation will do and the rules for how it is governed.
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Read through steps on how to draft a rule book for a corporation.
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Once a corporation has been placed under special administration, the Registrar will appoint a special administrator to resolve financial and organisational problems. The special administrator is a qualified, independent person who takes control and runs a corporation.  
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The Registrar has a power under the CATSI Act to issue compliance notices. A compliance notice is an instruction to a corporation to fix something. Compliance notice purposeCompliance notices instruct a corporation to fix an issue, for example:
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All registered native title bodies corporate (RNTBCs) must have particular rules about membership and disputes. ObjectivesThe objectives must say that the corporation is established to become an RNTBC and carry out the functions of an RNTBC.
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Go through tasks to complete for your corporation by the end of the year, such as annual reports, funding acquittals, taxes and annual general meetings.