Mandurah Plein Air Artists Inc. is an Incorporated body under the Associations Incorporations Act 2015. The purpose of incorporation is to create a legal entity that is separate from the individual members. In practical terms incorporating means:

• the association becomes a body corporate
  with perpetual succession (it may exist forever,
  even as its membership changes);
• the name of the association is protected
  and will end with the word
  ‘Incorporated’ or ‘Inc.’;
• members or officers of the association
  are generally not liable to contribute
  towards the payment of debts or
  liabilities of the association; and
• the association may sue or be sued in
  its own corporate name.