Companies Auditors Board Regulations (ACT)

COMPANIES AUDITORS BOARD R E G U L A T I O N S .

REGULATIONS 1962. No. l l . f

Short title.	1. These Regulations may be cited as the Companies Auditors Board Regulations.
Repeal.	2. The Companies Auditors Board (Fees) Regulations (being Regulations 1962, No. 5) are repealed.

Definitions.	3.	" Chairman " means Chairman of the Board;
In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears— " the Ordinance " means the Companies Ordinance 1962.

t Made under the Companies Ordinance 1962 on 6th December, 1962; notified in the Commonwealth Gazette and commenced on 13th December, 1962.

Fees and	4,—(1.) For	the purposes of sub-section (11.) of section 8 of the fee of Six pounds six shillings is payable to the Chairman or to the deputy of the Chairman for each day or part of a day on which the Chairman or the deputy of the Chairman, as the case may be, attended a meeting of the Board before the commencement of these Regulations or attends a meeting of the Board after that commencement; and
allowances
payable to

members of	Ordinance—
the Board.	(a)
(b) a fee of Five pounds five shillings is payable to a member or a deputy of a member for each day or part of a day on which the member or the deputy of the member, as the case may be, attended a meeting of the Board before the commencement of these Regulations or attends a meeting of the Board after that commencement.

* Made under the Companies Ordinance 1962 on 29th June, 1962; notified in the Commonwealth Gazette and commenced on 5th July, 1962.

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(2.) Where—

(a) the Chairman, a member or a deputy of the Chairman or of a member is, in order to attend a meeting of the Board, neces- sarily absent overnight from his place of residence; or

(b) the Chairman or a member is, in order to perform any act within the functions of the Board that he has been authorized by the Board to perform, necessarily absent overnight from his place of residence,

travelling allowance at the rate of Four pounds ten shillings per day is payable to him in respect of the time he is necessarily absent from his place of residence.
(3.) Where the Chairman, a member or a deputy of the Chairman or of a member attends a meeting of the Board held in a city or town other than that in which he resides, or the Chairman or a member performs, in a city or town other than that in which he resides, any act within the functions of the Board that he has been authorized by the Board to perform—

(a) he is entitled, for the purpose of attending the meeting or performing the act, to travel first-class by rail or air, at the cost of the Commonwealth, from the city or town where he resides to the city or town where the meeting is held or the act is performed and, on the completion of the meeting or of the performance of the act, from the city or town where the meeting was held or the act performed to the city or town where he resides; or

(6) he is entitled, if he does not so travel by rail or air, to be paid an allowance equal to the amount of the first-class rail or air fare, whichever is the less.

(4.) This regulation does not apply to a Chairman, a member or a deputy of a Chairman or member who is an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth or an officer of an authority of the Commonwealth.

5. For the purposes of sub-section (7.) and sub-section (8.) of section 9 Registration

of the Ordinance— fees-

(a) the prescribed fee payable in respect of the registration of a person as a company auditor, or in respect of the registration	of a registered company auditor as a registered liquidator, is
Two pounds; and

(b) the prescribed fee payable in respect of the renewal of the registration of a registered company auditor or of a regis- tered liquidator is One pound.

6. A notice under sub-section (11.) of section 9 of the Ordinance shall Notice to

be in accordance with the F o r m in the Schedule to these Regulations. 8*v.e evidence

° at inquiry.

THE SCHEDULE.

Regulation 6.

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

Companies Ordinance 1962.

NOTICE REQUIRING A PERSON TO GIVE EVIDENCE.

To

In pursuance of the power conferred on me by sub-section (11.) of section 9 of

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the Companies Ordinance 1962, I, , the Chairman; of the Companies Auditors Board constituted under that Ordinance hereby require you to attend the inquiry by that Board concerning

to be held at on the

day of , 19 , at the hour of o'clock in

the noon and to give evidence on oath or affirmation as to any matter in

* The words

in brackets	relation to the subject matter of that inquiry (* and then and there to produce all
may be left	books, documents and writings in your custody or under your control that relate to
out if	[here set out particulars of the matters in relation to the subject matter of the inquiry
inapplicable.	to which the books, documents and writings are to relate] and, in particular, any of the following books, documents and writings that are in your custody or under your control:—

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Dated this day of ,19

Chairman.

NOTE.—Under section 379 of the Companies Ordinance 1962, a person is guilty of an offence punishable by a fine not exceeding Fifty pounds if he fails to comply with a requirement under that Ordinance.