PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ACT.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

   Section

   1.   Interpretation.

   2.   Public appeals for donations.

   3.   Exemptions.

   4.   Registration of public collections.

   5.   Method, effect and duration of registration.

   6.   Books of account, etc.

   7.   Collectors.

   8.   Proceeds of collection.

   9.   Offences and penalties.

   10.   Regulations.

   11.   Application of other laws.

CHAPTER 293
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ACT.

Commencement: 1 July, 1966.

   An Act relating to public collections of money or in kind and other purposes connected therewith.

1.   Interpretation.

   (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

   (a)   "collector" means a person duly authorised under section 7 to assist in making a public collection;

   (b)   "functions" includes powers and duties;

   (c)   "Minister" means the Minister to whom functions under this Act are assigned;

   (d)   "promoter" means a person duly registered under section 5 as the promoter of a public collection;

   (e)   "registration authority" means the registration authority appointed under section 4;

   (f)   "stated objects" means the objects to which the proceeds of a collection under this Act are to be applied.

   (2) For the purposes of sections 2 and 7, "appeal" means a request or invitation however conveyed, whether by actions, in words, pictorially or in writing, and whether made in public, through the press, radio or television, in conversation, by house to house visiting or through the post.

2.   Public appeals for donations.

   (1) Subject to this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person to make any appeal to the public or any part or class of the public for donations in money or in kind for any object, except where registration of the public collection has been effected in accordance with this Act.

   (2) A payment of money in exchange for a token or any article of token value only, or for any article or benefit the value of which is substantially less that the