Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 - SECT 644

             (1)  If a target becomes aware of:

                     (a)  a misleading or deceptive statement in the target's statement; or

                     (b)  an omission from the target's statement of information required by section 638; or

                     (c)  a new circumstance that:

                              (i)  has arisen since the target's statement was lodged; and

                             (ii)  would have been required by section 638 to be included in the target's statement if it had arisen before the target's statement was lodged;

that is material from the point of view of a holder of bid class securities, the target must prepare a supplementary target's statement that remedies this defect.

Note 1:       The target must then send and lodge the supplementary target's statement in accordance with section 647.

Note 2:       Section 670A makes it an offence to give a target's statement after the target has become aware of a misleading or deceptive statement, omission or new circumstance that is material from the point of view of a holder of securities to whom the statement is given (unless the deficiency is corrected).

Note 3:       The power to issue a supplementary target's statement is not limited to the situations dealt with in this section.

Note 4:       This section applies to a target's statement that has already been previously supplemented.

             (2)  For an offence based on subsection (1), strict liability applies to the conduct, that the target must prepare a supplementary target's statement that remedies the defect.

Note:          For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .