(1) A person is both an exempt dealer and an exempt investment adviser if the
person is:
- (a)
- an eligible money market dealer; or
- (b)
- an exempt public authority.
(2) Subject to this section, a person is an exempt dealer or an exempt
investment adviser if the person is a dealer or investment adviser, as the
case may be, but does not carry on a securities business or an
investment advice business, as the case may be, except:
- (a)
- as an official
receiver or trustee within the meaning of the Bankruptcy Act 1966 ; or
- (b)
- as a receiver, receiver and manager, or liquidator, appointed by a court;
or
- (c)
- as a person appointed by a court to carry on the business concerned; or
- (d)
- by virtue of the person's powers, as Public Trustee, under a prescribed
law of a State or Territory; or
- (e)
- as a receiver, receiver and manager, or liquidator, appointed otherwise
than by a court; or
- (f)
- as an administrator of a body corporate; or
- (fa)
- as an administrator of a deed of company arrangement executed by a body
corporate; or
- (g)
- as a trustee or other person administering a compromise or arrangement
between a body corporate and any other person or persons; or
- (h)
- as a personal representative of a dead dealer or investment adviser, as
the case may be; or
- (j)
- in such other capacity, or in such other circumstances, as are prescribed.
(3) A body corporate that carries on, or holds itself out as carrying on, a
business of dealing in debentures of that body is an exempt dealer if it
neither carries on, nor holds itself out as carrying on, a business of dealing
in any other securities.
(4) A person who carries on a securities business or investment advice
business in a capacity referred to in any of paragraphs (2)(e) to (h)
(inclusive) is taken for the purposes of subsection (2) to carry on the
business otherwise than in that capacity unless there is in force under
subsection (5) an approval of the person carrying on the business in that
capacity.
(5) ASIC may, on application by a person and after having regard to:
- (a)
- the
prescribed matters (if any); and
- (b)
- such matters as it thinks appropriate;
by writing approve of the person carrying on a specified securities business
or investment advice business in a specified capacity, being a capacity
referred to in any of paragraphs (2)(e) to (h), inclusive.
(6) A person who carries on a securities business or investment advice
business as a personal representative of a dead dealer or investment adviser,
as the case may be, is taken for the purposes of subsection (2) to stop
carrying on that business as such a personal representative:
- (a)
- at the end
of 6 months after the death of the dealer or investment adviser; or
- (b)
- on being discharged or removed as a personal representative of the dealer
or investment adviser; or
- (c)
- on the final distribution of the estate of the dealer or investment
adviser;
whichever happens first.
(7) A person is not an exempt dealer or an exempt investment adviser except as
provided by this section.