(1) Subject to subsection (2), where a certificate or other document of title to shares, debentures or interests in a managed investment scheme is lost or destroyed, the company must, on application by the owner of the shares, debentures or interests, issue a duplicate certificate or document to the owner:

(a)

if the company requires the payment of an amount not exceeding the prescribed amount—within 21 days after the payment is received by the company or within such longer period as ASIC approves; or

(b)

in a case to which paragraph (a) does not apply—within 21 days after the application is made or within such longer period as ASIC approves.

(2) The application must be accompanied by:

(a)

a statement in writing that the certificate or document has been lost or destroyed, and has not been pledged, sold or otherwise disposed of, and, if lost, that proper searches have been made; and

(b)

an undertaking in writing that if it is found or received by the owner it will be returned to the company.

(3) The directors of a company may, before accepting an application for the issue of a duplicate certificate or document, require the applicant:

(a)

to cause an advertisement to be inserted in a daily newspaper circulating in a place specified by the directors stating that the certificate or document has been lost or destroyed and that the owner intends, after the end of 14 days after the publication of the advertisement, to apply to the company for a duplicate; or

(b)

to give a bond for an amount equal to at least the current market value of the shares, debentures or interests indemnifying the company against loss following the production of the original certificate or document;