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Regulatory action, Deregistration, Records
Director
Avoid penalties by meeting your reporting obligations. Doing correct and timely reporting is positive for your corporation and the sector as a whole. Lodging reports on time shows your corporation takes its accountability and reporting obligations seriously.
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Extensions
Director
The term of appointment is how long a person is appointed to be a director. When their term expires the director must stopA person cannot continue to act as a director once their term has expired. They are not a director.
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Conflict of interest, Eligibility
Member, Director, Secretary
When a corporation gives an asset or money to a person or group with a close relationship to the corporation, this is called giving a related party a financial benefit.
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Regulatory action
Creditor/funder, Director
Learn more about voluntary administration as an insolvency procedure and how it differs to a special administration.
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Creditor/funder, Director
Learn more about small business restructuring, which allows certain corporations to enter into a restructuring plan with creditors while the directors to keep control of the corporation.
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Director, Creditor/funder
Learn more about receivership for a corporation and its directors.
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Deregistration
Creditor/funder
What is winding up?Winding up is a process to finalise a corporation’s affairs and end its existence.
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Deregistration
Director
Learn more about deregistration under the CATSI Act, which means the corporation ceases to exist as a legal entity.
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Records
Director, Creditor/funder
A financial report details a corporation's financial performance and position. It must be prepared in line with the Australian Accounting Standards.
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Director, Secretary
If your corporation is required to lodge reports here's a quick tool to help you work out what reports you need to prepare and lodge.
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Director
Information about disputes between directors, how to resolve them and what ORIC can and can't help with.
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Eligibility
Director
When your corporation is registered, we will send you a certificate of registration, which has your Indigenous Corporation Number (ICN) on it, send you the approved rule book and publish details of your corporation on the Register of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations.
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Director
Delegating is a process of giving a task, authority or responsibility to another person. It helps you spread a workload to help get things done more efficiently.A person who is authorised to use the powers on behalf of the board of directors is a delegate.
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Deregistration
Director, Creditor/funder
Even if your corporation has stopped doing anything, it's still registered as a legal entity. This means that you must still meet the legal obligations of a corporation. To be free of these obligations, you will need to finish up any corporation business (wind up) and deregister it.
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Charity
Director
Read through steps on how to draft a rule book for a corporation.
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Director
Corporations should regularly review their rule book to make sure their rules still work for them. What works for your corporation is likely to change over time, especially if your objectives change or operations grow.
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Creditor/funder
Learn more about special administrations under the CATSI Act, what it means for directors and members and the difference between an administration under the Corporations Act.
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Eligibility, Extensions
Contact person, Secretary
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.
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Eligibility
Contact person, Secretary
Some rules in the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (CATSI Act) are ‘replaceable’. This is similar to the Corporations Act 2001.
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Director
A board of directors is a group of individual directors appointed to oversee a corporation's governance and performance.