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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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Complaint
Running a corporation is not always easy. Sometimes things go wrong. These processes and procedures can help resolve problems and get the best outcomes for the corporation and the community.
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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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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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Native title, Indigeneity
Registered native title bodies corporate (RNTBCs) make decisions related to native title and corporate operations. These decisions must be made correctly and by the right people.
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Complaint
A dispute is usually because there are generally at least two differing opinions from different parties about the conduct of a corporation, including the interpretation or compliance with the CATSI Act or corporation’s rule book, and that has led to disagreements.
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Complaint
The CATSI Act gives certain people legal rights and protections as whistleblowers when they make a disclosure to the Registrar or ORIC, internally within the corporation, or externally.
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Deregistration
The Registrar has a number of regulatory powers under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (CATSI Act) to address issues within corporations.
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Complaint
ORIC will not consider reports of concern if they are more than 3 pages (excluding attachments) or if they are AI-generated.
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Complaint
The Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations (the Registrar) takes concerns about corporations’ compliance with the CATSI Act and their rule books seriously.
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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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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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Deregistration
The Registrar of Indigenous Corporations has completed deregistration action against a further 469 Aboriginal and…
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Deregistration, Regulatory action
This section brings together announcements and information relating to use of the Registrar's power to initiate a deregistration under the CATSI Act, including announcements about proposed and completed deregistrations.
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Regulatory action
This section provides access to published announcements about special administration appointments, including when special administrations start and end.
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Regulatory action
Information about selected regulatory activities, decisions and outcomes published by ORIC. It is not a comprehensive record of all regulatory activity.