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Members can appoint independent directors to the board if it is in the rule book. An independent director is a director who is not a member. They usually have special skills or knowledge.
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An officer of a corporation is someone who is involved in making decisions that affect the business of the corporation and can greatly affect the corporation’s financial standing.
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The healthy corporation checklist allows you to check your corporation’s compliance with the rule book and the law.
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Our new system for lodging forms and reports – myCorp – is now available. Thank you for your patience during this…
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Your corporation size determines whether you have a contact person or a secretary.Contact personIf your corporation's size is small or medium it will have a contact person.
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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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When a corporation gives an asset or money to a person or group with a close relationship to the corporation, this is called a giving a related party a financial benefit.
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We maintain a public list of people disqualified by a court or the Registrar. A disqualified person can’t be an officer of a corporation – that means they can’t be on the board or a manager.
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Update 26 March 2025: System outagesORIC’s online lodgement system – online.oric.gov.au – will be unavailable after 5…
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All corporations must keep correct and up to date accounts and records. Records help you to gather and maintain evidence about your business activities, like:
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Our workshops and courses are designed to build corporate governance knowledge, skills, efficiency and accountability. Goals for trainingOur courses aim to:
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The ORIC survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations 2024 has now closed. Thank you to the 163…
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Good corporate governance processes and practices ensure the corporation achieves its purpose and objectives, and delivers the outcomes that the members and stakeholders expect.
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This document sets out the regulatory posture of the Registrar. It outlines the Registrar’s posture for key responsibilities of corporations and outlines focus areas for 2025.
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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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The Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations, Tricia Stroud, has finalised the deregistration of…
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The Registrar is focusing on the quality of corporation records, particularly those relating to director appointments,…
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ORIC produces 6-monthly statistical reports about complaints involving corporations.The statistics provide a broad picture of corporate complaints in the sector across the entire country. We are also able to monitor these aspects of corporate performance over time.