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CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 - SECT 1041C

False trading and market rigging--artificially maintaining etc. trading price

  (1)   A person must not (whether in this jurisdiction or elsewhere) enter into, or engage in, a fictitious or artificial transaction or device if that transaction or device results in:

  (a)   the price for trading in financial products on a financial market operated in this jurisdiction being maintained, inflated or depressed; or

  (b)   fluctuations in the price for trading in financial products on a financial market operated in this jurisdiction.

Note 1:   Failure to comply with this subsection is an offence (see subsection   1311(1)). For defences to a prosecution based on this subsection, see Division   4.

Note 2:   This subsection is also a civil penalty provision (see section   1317E). For relief from liability to a civil penalty relating to this subsection, see Division   4 and section   1317S.

  (2)   In determining whether a transaction is fictitious or artificial for the purposes of subsection   (1), the fact that the transaction is, or was at any time, intended by the parties who entered into it to have effect according to its terms is not conclusive.


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