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CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 No. 50, 2001 - SECT 1407

References to old corporations legislation in instruments

(1) Subject to subsection (2), a reference in, or taken immediately before the commencement to be in, an instrument, other than:

(a)
an Act of a State, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory or Norfolk Island; or

(b)
an instrument made under such an Act;

to:

(c)
an Act, or to regulations or some other instrument, that is part of the old corporations legislation (whether the reference is in general terms or in relation to a particular State or Territory in this jurisdiction); or

(d)
to a provision or group of provisions of such an Act, regulations or other instrument;

is taken, after the commencement, to include a reference to the corresponding part, provision or provisions of the new corporations legislation (unless there is no such corresponding part, provision or provisions).

Note: This section will, for example, apply to:

(a) a reference in another Commonwealth Act to the Corporations Law; or (b) a reference in the Corporations Regulations to the Corporations Law; or (c) a reference in a company's constitution to a particular provision of the Corporations Law.

(2) The regulations may do either or both of the following:

(a)
provide that subsection (1) does not apply in relation to prescribed references in prescribed instruments;

(b)
provide that subsection (1) has effect in relation to prescribed references in prescribed instruments as if, in that subsection, the words "to be" were substituted for the words " to include".


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