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PART 2- PRELIMINARY
2. NAME

The name of the organisation shall be Drummoyne Community Centre Incorporated

3. DEFINITIONS

(1) In these rules:

"D.C.C. or association" means the Drummoyne Community Centre Incorporated under the Associations Incorporation Act 1984.
"Committee" means Management Committee comprising the persons referred to in clause 15 of this Constitution.
"Committee Member" means an office bearer or member of the Committee and is paid up ordinary members, duly elected at an annual general meeting of ordinary members.
"Life Member" see 5a below.
"Group Member" means an organisation or group associated with D.C.C. which has become a paid-up member of D.C.C. accepted by the Committee. Group members are entitled to one vote per group.
"Member" means a paid-up member of D.C.C. accepted by the Committee.
"Secretary" means:

(a) the person holding office under these rules as secretary of D.C.C.; or
(b) if no such person holds that office - the public officer of D.C.C.;

"Council Representatives" are two persons nominated by the City of Canada Bay Council.
"Special General Meeting" means a general meeting of the association other than an annual general meeting;
"the Act" means the Associations Incorporation Act 1984 and "the Regulation" means the Associations Incorporation Regulation 1994.

(2) In these rules:

(a) a reference to a function includes a reference to a power, authority and duty; and
(b) a reference to the exercise of a function includes, if the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty.

(3) The provisions of the Interpretation Act 1987 apply to and in respect of these rules in the same manner as those provisions would so apply if these rules were an instrument made under the Act.