COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975
ORDER UNDER SUBSECTION 18(2)
WHEREAS I AM SATISFIED THAT—
(A) GrainCorp Limited, ABN 60 057 186 035, is a corporation for the purposes of section 18 of the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 (‘the Act’);
(B) Archer Daniels Midland Company and its direct and indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries, including Amber Australia Holdings II Pty Limited are foreign persons for the purposes of that section of the Act;
(C) Archer Daniels Midland Company and its direct and indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries, including Amber Australia Holdings II Pty Limited have proposed to acquire a 100 per cent interest in GrainCorp Limited as specified in the notice furnished on 9 September 2013 under section 26 of the Act and the acquisition would result in a change in control of GrainCorp Limited as described in paragraph 18(2)(b) of the Act; and
(D) that result would be contrary to the national interest,
NOW THEREFORE, I, the HON J. B. HOCKEY MP, Treasurer, pursuant to subsection 18(2) of the Act, PROHIBIT the proposed acquisition.
This order shall come into effect on publication in the Commonwealth Gazette.
Dated this 29th day of November 2013
The HON J. B. HOCKEY MP
Treasurer