Corporations Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 6) (Cth)
Corporations Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 6) 1
Statutory Rules 2002 No. 145 2
I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the
Corporations Act 2001 .Dated 26 June 2002
PETER HOLLINGWORTH
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command
IAN CAMPBELL
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer
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These Regulations are the
Corporations Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 6) .
These Regulations commence as follows:
(a) on gazettal — regulations 1 to 3 and Schedule 1;
(b) on 1 July 2002 — Schedule 2.
Schedules 1 and 2 amend the
Corporations Regulations 2001 .
(regulation 3)
substitute
7.5.88 Minister’s arrangements for use of excess money from compensation funds
omit paid.
insert used by a market licensee.
omit payment
insert use
omit for the approved purpose (if any) for which it was paid,
insert for a purpose approved under subregulation 7.5.88 (1),
omit payment
insert use
omit payment
insert use of the money
omit
substitute
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10.2.27A Expenditure of excess funds from National Guarantee Fund
(1) For section 1444 of the Act, this regulation applies to a purpose in relation to a payment to be made out of a development account if:
(a) the purpose was approved under subsection 945 (3) of the old Corporations Act; and
(b) the approval was in force immediately before the FSR commencement.
(2) The purpose is taken to be an approved purpose for subregulation 7.5.88 (1).
(3) If the purpose approved under subsection 945 (3) of the old Corporations Act included conditions relating to the payment to which the approval related, the conditions are taken to be conditions determined under subregulation 7.5.88 (3).
(regulation 3)
[ 1 ] Subregulation 7.9.01 (1), after definition of charge
insert
child account means a superannuation product or an RSA product issued as a result of accepting child contributions.
child contributions :
(a) for a superannuation product — has the same meaning as in the SIS Regulations; and
(b) for an RSA product — has the same meaning as in the RSA Regulations.
[ 2 ] Subregulation 7.9.01 (1), after definition of investment management charge
insert
legal personal representative has the meaning given by section 10 of the SIS Act.
omit an interest
insert an interest (other than the opening of a child account)
insert
Subdivision 2.6 Product disclosure requirements for child accounts
7.9.07AA Child accounts — product disclosure statements For paragraph 1020G (2) (a) of the Act, section 1012I of the Act is modified in relation to child accounts by inserting after subsection 1012I (2B):
‘(2D) If a person (the
applicant ) applies for the issue of a financial product that is a child account the person who is to issue the child account (theissuer ) must at or before the time when the child account is opened on behalf of the child give the applicant a Product Disclosure Statement in accordance with this Division.’.
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7.9.12A Child accounts — applications and eligible applications
(1) For paragraph 1016A (2) (f) of the Act, the situation is that the following conditions are satisfied:
(a) paragraphs 1016A (2) (a) to (e) do not apply to the issue;
(b) the relevant financial product is a child account;
(c) if the applicant has been given a Product Disclosure Statement — the product is issued pursuant to an eligible application made to the issuer by a person on behalf of the child;
(d) subject to subregulation (3), if the applicant has not been given a Product Disclosure Statement, and the Act or these Regulations do not require the applicant to be given a Product Disclosure Statement — the product is issued as a result of an application made to the issuer by a person on behalf of the child.
(2) For paragraph (1) (d), an application must include:
(a) evidence that:
(i) the child’s legal personal representative has consented to the opening of the child account; or
(ii) if the child does not have a legal personal representative, a parent of the child, or the child’s guardian, has consented to the opening of the child account; and
(b) the name and address of the legal personal representative, parent or guardian; and
(c) the name, address and date of birth of the child.
(3) For paragraphs (1) (c) and (d), an eligible application or an application that meets the requirements mentioned in subregulation (2) is not required for the issue of a child account by a self managed superannuation fund if the applicant is the child’s legal personal representative, a parent of the child or the child’s guardian.
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7.9.68A Modification of section 1019B of the Act: child accounts
(1) Subregulation (2) applies if the applicant in relation to the issue of a financial product that is a child account, in accordance with subparagraph 1016A (2) (f) of the Act and regulation 7.9.12A, is not a parent or guardian of the child or is not the child’s legal personal representative.
(2) For paragraph 1020G (1) (c) of the Act, subsection 1019A (1) and paragraph 1019A (3) (a) of the Act are modified so that a reference in those provisions to a client:
(a) includes a person who is an applicant; and
(b) does not include the person who is the product-holder.
(3) For paragraph 1020G (1) (c) of the Act, subsection 1019B (1) of the Act is modified in its application to the issue of a financial product that is a child account as if a reference in subsection 1019B (1) to money paid to acquire a financial product that is a child account were a reference to all monies paid in relation to the financial product.
(4) For subsection 1019B (2) of the Act, it is a requirement of the exercise of the right to return a financial product that is a child account that the applicant must nominate a superannuation fund, approved deposit fund or RSA into which monies are to be repaid.
(5) The right of return is taken to have been exercised only on receipt by the responsible person of the nomination.
(6) The applicant must make the nomination not later than 1 month after notifying the responsible person of the right to exercise the right of return.
(7) The applicant must notify the responsible person in writing or by electronic means.
(8) For subsection 1019B (7) of the Act, if the right of return is exercised by an applicant under this regulation, the responsible person must return the money as directed.
(9) For subsection 1019B (7) of the Act, if:
(a) a financial product mentioned in this regulation is subject to the nomination of a further superannuation fund, approved deposit fund or RSA; and
(b) the application in relation to the issue of a financial product is not accepted by the nominated superannuation fund, approved deposit fund or RSA;
the responsible person may rollover or transfer the benefits held in the child account to an eligible rollover fund.
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(3) For paragraph (c) of the definition of
eligible application in subsection 1016A (1) of the Act, an application for a financial product that is a child account must include:
(a) evidence that:
(i) the child’s legal personal representative has consented to the opening of the child account; or
(ii) if the child does not have a legal personal representative, a parent of the child, or the child’s guardian, has consented to the opening of the child account; and
(b) the name and address of the legal personal representative, parent or guardian; and
(c) the name, address and date of birth of the child.
1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2001 No. 193, as amended by 2001 Nos. 208, 318 and 319; 2002 Nos. 15, 16, 41, 53 and 126.
2. Notified in the
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 June 2002.
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