New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHARITABLE FUNDRAISING ACT 1991 - SECT 47

47 Public access to information

(1) A person or organisation that is (or, within the previous 12 months, was) the holder of an authority must, within 30 days after being requested to do so by any person, furnish the person with--

(a) any audited financial statements requested by the person concerning fundraising appeals conducted by the person or organisation concerned during its last financial year and, to the extent that the regulations so require, during previous financial years, and

(b) in the case of an organisation--such information as the regulations may prescribe concerning the objects and constitution (including the names and addresses of members of the governing body of the organisation) of the organisation.

: Maximum penalty--5 penalty units.

(2) Any such information and financial statements may, at the request of any person, be supplied to the person by or on behalf of the Minister.

(3) A person is not entitled to be supplied with information or financial statements under this section unless the person has paid any relevant fee prescribed by the regulations.