Approval to hold the transferring business of a financial sector company
Financial Sector (Shareholdings) Act 1998
TO: Lifeplan Australia Friendly Society Limited ABN 78 087 649 492 (the applicant) SINCE
- the applicant and Australian Unity Investment Bonds Limited ABN 83 087 649 072 (the Company) are financial sector companies within the meaning of the Financial Sector (Shareholdings) Act 1998 (the Act); and
- 100% of the gross assets and liabilities of the Company (the transferring business) are to be transferred to the applicant as a voluntary transfer of business under the Financial Sector (Business Transfer and Group Restructure) Act 1999 (the Business Transfer Act); and
C. the applicant has applied to the Treasurer under section 13A of the Act, to hold the
transferring business; and
D. I am satisfied that it is in the national interest to approve the applicant holding the transferring business,
I, Stephen Edward Glenfield, a delegate of the Treasurer, under subsection 14(1) of the Act, APPROVE the applicant holding the transferring business.
This Approval commences on 1 July 2013 and remains in force indefinitely.
Dated: 28 June 2013
[Signed]
Stephen Edward Glenfield General Manager
Specialised Institutions Division South West Region
Interpretation Document ID: 209390
In this Notice
financial sector company has the meaning given in section 3 of the Act.
Note 1 Regulation 6 of the Financial Sector (Transfers of Business) Regulations 1999 provides that, for
subsection 43(4) of the Business Transfer Act, the provisions of the Act apply in relation to a transfer of
business as if section 13A were inserted after section 13 of the Act. Section 13A provides that a financial sector company to which more than 15% of the gross assets and liabilities of another financial sector company (the transferring business) is to be transferred under the Act, must apply to the Treasurer for approval to hold the transferring business and that Division 3 of Part 2 of the Act applies to the application as if the transferring business were a separate financial sector company.
Note 2 Under section 14 of the Act, the Treasurer must give written notice of the approval to the applicant and arrange for a copy of the notice to be published in the Gazette and given to the Company