ASIC Corporations (Joint Product Disclosure Statements) Instrument 2016/1056
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ASIC Corporations (Joint Product Disclosure Statements) Instrument 2016/1056
I, Anthony Graham, delegate of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, make the following legislative instrument.
Date 14 November 2016
Anthony Graham
Contents
1 Name of legislative instrument
5 Joint Product Disclosure Statements
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name of legislative instrument
This is the ASIC Corporations (Joint Product Disclosure Statements) Instrument 2016/1056.
2 Commencement
This instrument commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.
Note: The register may be accessed at www.legislation.gov.au.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under paragraph 1020F(1)(c) of the Corporations Act 2001.
4 Definitions
In this instrument:
Act means the Corporations Act 2001.
offer has a meaning affected by sections 1010C and 1011C of the Act.
Regulations means the Corporations Regulations 2001.
Short-Form PDS has the same meaning as in Division 3A of Part 7.9 of the Act (as notionally inserted by Part 3 of Schedule 10BA of the Regulations).
Part 2—Declaration
5 Joint Product Disclosure Statements
Part 7.9 of the Act applies in relation to an issuer of a financial product as if:
(a) section 1013A of the Act were modified or varied by:
(i) in subsection (1), omitting ‘must be a document that has been prepared by the issuer of the financial product’ and substituting:
“may relate to one or more financial products of more than one issuer, and must be a document that has been prepared by the issuer of each financial product to which the Product Disclosure Statement relates”; and
(iii) in subsection (3), after “prepared”, inserting “and who is the issuer of the product”; and
(b) regulation 7.9.07J of the Regulations were omitted.
6 Where declaration applies
The declaration in section 5 applies to an offer to issue or to arrange the issue, an issue, or a recommendation to acquire by way of the issue, of a financial product, where:
(a) the Product Disclosure Statement (Statement) or Short-Form PDS (Statement) that is given for that financial product also relates to at least one other financial product of another issuer; and
(b) the Statement prominently states:
(i) that the Statement covers two or more separate financial products; and
(ii) that each issuer takes full responsibility for the whole of the Statement.