Australian Securities and Investments Commission Corporations (Significant Financial Benchmarks) Instrument 2018/420 (Cth)

ASIC Corporations (Significant Financial Benchmarks) Instrument 2018/420

I, Oliver Harvey, delegate of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, make the following legislative instrument.

Date    6 June 2018

Oliver Harvey

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1    Name of legislative instrument

2    Commencement

3    Authority

4    Definitions

Part 3—Declaration

5    Significant financial benchmarks

Part 1—Preliminary

1        Name of legislative instrument

This is the ASIC Corporations (Significant Financial Benchmarks) Instrument 2018/420.

2        Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

Note:    The register may be accessed at Authority

This instrument is made under section 908AC of the Corporations Act 2001.

4        Definitions

In this instrument:

financial benchmark has the meaning given by section 908AB of the Corporations Act 2001.

Part 3—Declaration

5        Significant financial benchmarks

Each of the following financial benchmarks is a significant financial benchmark:

(a)     the Australian Bank Bill Swap Rate;

(b)     the S&P/ASX 200 Index;

(c)     the ASX Bond Futures Settlement Price;

(d)     the Australian Interbank Overnight Cash Rate;

(e)     the Australian Consumer Price Index.