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Non-Profit Organisations Act, 1997 (Act No. 71 of 1997)

Chapter 3 Registration of Non-Profit Organisations

24. Register of Non-profit Organisations

 

1) The director must keep a register in the prescribed form of—
a) all non-profit organisations that have been registered;
b) all non-profit organisations whose registrations have been cancelled;
c) all non-profit organisations that have voluntarily deregistered or have been wound up or dissolved; and
d) prescribed information about the office-bearers, control structure, governance, management, administration and operations of registered nonprofit organisations.

[Section 24(1)(d) inserted by section 14(c) of the General Laws (Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Financing) Amendment Act, 2022 (Act No. 22 of 2022), GG47802, dated 29 December 2022 - effective 1 April 2023 per Proclamation Notice 109(b)(i), GG47805, dated 31 December 2022]

 

2) Within two months after the end of each financial year, the director must publish in the Gazette and at least one other widely circulated means of communication, the names of—
a) all non-profit organisations that are registered;
b) all non-profit organisations whose registrations were cancelled during the previous financial year; and
c) all non-profit organisations which deregistered voluntarily, have been wound up or dissolved during the previous financial year.

 

3) Subsection (2) does not preclude the director from publishing the names of the organisations contemplated in that section in any widely circulated means of communication, as and when considered appropriate.

 

(4) A registered nonprofit organisation must make the information referred to in section 18(1)(bA), and the director must provide access to the information in the register referred to in subsection (1)(d), available to any person as prescribed.

[Section 24(4) inserted by section 14(d) of the General Laws (Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Financing) Amendment Act, 2022 (Act No. 22 of 2022), GG47802, dated 29 December 2022 - effective 1 April 2023 per Proclamation Notice 109(b)(i), GG47805, dated 31 December 2022]

 

(5) The prescribed requirements referred to in subsections (1)(d) and (4) must be prescribed after consultation with the Minister of Finance and the Financial Intelligence Centre, established by section 2 of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2001 (Act No. 38 of 2001).

[Section 24(5) inserted by section 14(d) of the General Laws (Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Financing) Amendment Act, 2022 (Act No. 22 of 2022), GG47802, dated 29 December 2022 - effective 1 April 2023 per Proclamation Notice 109(b)(i), GG47805, dated 31 December 2022]