Corporations Amendment (Name Exemption) Regulations 2019 (Cth)

Corporations Amendment (Name Exemption) Regulations 2019

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 07 March 2019

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Stuart Robert

Assistant Treasurer

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Corporations Amendment (Name Exemption) Regulations 2019.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	9 March 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Corporations Act 2001.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Corporations Regulations 2001

1

After regulation 2B.6.02

Insert:

2B.6.02AExemption from requirement to include “Limited” in name

1. (1)

   For the purposes of subsections 5H(5) and 5I(1) of the Act, subsection 148(2) of the Act does not apply in relation to Westpac Banking Corporation (ABN 33 007 457 141).

2. (2)

   For the purposes of subsection 5I(1) of the Act, the Westpac Banking Corporation (Transfer of Incorporation) Act 2000 (NSW) is the specified law.

Schedule 2Repeals

Corporations (Change of Incorporation) Regulations 2002

1

The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.