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13 September 2011
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Fair Trading (OFT) to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in order to avoid any orders flowing from the FWOs final finding is simply false. In late 2009 the NSW Office of Fair Trading instructed the Church of Scientology Australia (an incorporated association) to transfer its registration to ASIC so that we came under the Commonwealth Corporations Act (2001). We quote from correspondence dated 11 November 2009: In these circumstances the Registry considers the continued incorporation of the Association under the Act is no longer appropriate and formally requests the Association to voluntarily transfer its incorporation to a more suitable corporate structure under section 56 of the Act. The transition required a great deal of work by volunteer Church of Scientology staff and was only completed in May 2011. The suggestion that the change in registration was designed to circumvent any negative findings against the Church by the Fair Work Ombudsman is outrageous, wrong and defamatory. It would be humanly impossible to transfer registration from the OFT to ASIC in two days! The fact the transfer was completed two days after the FWO interim finding was released to the Church is purely coincidental. You state that you have spoken with Mike Rinder. He is not a credible source. He has an axe to grind and has a history of fabricating allegations against our Church.
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