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VENTURE CAPITAL ACT 2002 - SECT 9.3

Registration requirements of ESVCLPs

  (1)   The registration requirements of an ESVCLP , in relation to a * limited partnership, are that:

  (a)   the partnership was established by or under a law in force in, or in any part of:

  (i)   Australia ; or

  (ii)   a foreign country in respect of which a double tax agreement (as defined in Part   X of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 ) is in force that is an agreement of a kind referred to in subparagraph   ( b)(i), (ia), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) of that definition; and

  (b)   all of the partners who are * general partners are residents of a country referred to in paragraph   ( a); and

  (c)   under the partnership agreement the partnership is to remain in existence for a period of not less than 5 years and not more than 15 years; and

  (d)   the partnership's * committed capital:

  (i)   is at least $10 million; and

  (ii)   does not exceed $200 million ; and

  (e)   none of the partners has * committed capital in the partnership that, taken together with the sum of the amounts of committed capital in the partnership of any of that partner's * associates (other than associates to whom subsection   ( 5) applies), exceeds 30% of the partnership's committed capital; and

  (f)   each investment that the partnership holds is:

  (i)   an * eligible venture capital investment; or

  (ii)   an investment in a company, in which the partnership owns one or more eligible venture capital investments, that would have been an eligible venture capital investment but for subsections   118 - 425(2) and (6) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 ; or

  (iii)   an investment in a unit trust, in which the partnership owns one or more eligible venture capital investments, that would have been an eligible venture capital investment but for subsections   118 - 427(3) and (7) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 ; and

  (g)   each investment that the partnership holds is in accordance with the partnership's * approved investment plan; and

  (h)   the partnership acts in accordance with the partnership's approved investment plan; and

  (j)   the partnership only carries on activities that are related to making eligible venture capital investments, investments to which subparagraph   ( f)(ii) applies or investments to which subparagraph   ( f)(iii) applies; and

  (k)   every * debt interest that the partnership owns is, and continues to be, a * permitted loan.

  (2)   The requirements in paragraphs   ( 1)(e), (f), (g), (h), (j) and (k) are investment registration requirements .

  (4)   Paragraph   ( 1)(e) does not apply in relation to a particular partner's * committed capital in the partnership if:

  (a)   * Industry Innovation and Science Australia allows, under section   9 - 4, the partner's committed capital in the partnership to exceed 30% of the partnership's committed capital; or

  (b)   subsection   ( 5) applies to the partner.

  (5)   This subsection applies to:

  (a)   an * ADI; or

  (b)   a * life insurance company; or

  (c)   a public authority:

  (i)   that is constituted by a law of a State or internal Territory; and

  (ii)   that carries on life insurance business within the meaning of section   11 of the Life Insurance Act 1995 ; or

  (d)   a widely - held complying superannuation fund within the meaning of section   4A of the Pooled Development Funds Act 1992 ; or

  (e)   a * widely held foreign venture capital fund of funds.


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