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Northwest Territories stands fully covered: its own filings and guidance stand in the books beside the federal ones.
The bylaws stand in the founding documents, with the name, the purposes and the head office.
A Northwest Territories society begins on an application — the intended name of the society and the purposes for which incorporation is desired — with bylaws agreed by the founders covering every matter section 5 lists, sent to the Registrar with the prescribed fee. Binds: Northwest Territories societies (Societies Act, R.S.N.W.T. 1988, c. S-11).
The law’s own words
“make and subscribe to an application, in the prescribed form, setting out the intended name of the society and the purpose or purposes for which incorporation is desired”
Societies Act (Northwest Territories), s. 2 · Read it at Government of the Northwest Territories · Verified 2026-11-08
“subscribe to bylaws agreed upon by them for the government of the society containing provisions for all the matters set out in section 5”
Societies Act (Northwest Territories), s. 2 · Read it at Government of the Northwest Territories · Verified 2026-11-08
“transmit to the Registrar the application and bylaws, together with the prescribed fee”
Societies Act (Northwest Territories), s. 2 · Read it at Government of the Northwest Territories · Verified 2026-11-08