Within 1 month after shares are cancelled, the company must lodge with ASIC a
notice in the prescribed form that sets out:
- (a)
- the number of shares
cancelled; and
- (b)
- any amount paid by the company (in cash or otherwise) on the cancellation
of the shares; and
- (c)
- if the shares are cancelled following a share buy-backthe amount
paid by the company (in cash or otherwise) on the buy-back; and
- (d)
- if the company has different classes of sharesthe class to which
each cancelled share belonged.
- Note: Provisions under which shares are cancelled include section 254J
(redeemable preference shares), section 256B (capital reductions),
subsection 257H(3) (shares a company has bought back), section 258D
(forfeited shares), and subsections 258E(2) and (3) (shares returned to a
company).