ASIC Market Integrity Rules (APX Market) 2013

Chapter 2: Participants and Representatives

Part 2.1 Management requirements

2.1.1 Management structure

(1) A Market Participant must, in relation to its conduct, and that part of its business that it conducts, on or in relation to the APX Market, wherever the conduct occurs or the business is located and regardless of the number of offices operated or intended to be operated by the Market Participant, have appropriate management structures in place to ensure that:

(a) it has operations and processes in place that are reasonably designed, implemented, and that function, so as to achieve compliance by the Market Participant with these Rules and the Market Operating Rules;
(b) the design, implementation, functioning and review of those operations and processes are subject to the supervision of one or more Responsible Executives; and
(c) each Responsible Executive has sufficient seniority and authority within the Market Participant to exert control, leadership, influence and supervision over those operations and processes.

(2) A Market Participant must keep accurate records of its management structure and its allocation of responsibilities among its Responsible Executives.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

2.1.2 Notification of management structure

(1) Subject to subrule (4), a Market Participant that is a Market Participant as at the Commencement Date must give to ASIC a document that sets out its management structure and its allocation of its responsibilities among its Responsible Executives, within 10 Business Days of the Commencement Date.

(2) Subject to subrule (4), a Market Participant that was not a Market Participant as at the Commencement Date must give to ASIC a document that sets out its management structure and its allocation of its responsibilities among its Responsible Executives, within 10 Business Days of becoming a Market Participant.

(3) A Market Participant that has given to ASIC a document under subrule (1) or (2) must notify ASIC in writing, within 10 Business Days, of any significant change in the management structure or its allocation of its responsibilities among its Responsible Executives shown in that document.

(4) A Market Participant is not required to comply with subrule (1) or (2), and is taken for the purposes of subrule (3) to have given ASIC a document under subrule (1) or (2), where, at the time the obligation to comply with the relevant subrule would arise, all of the following are satisfied:

(a) the Market Participant is also an ASX Participant or a Chi-X Australia Participant;
(b) the Market Participant has given ASIC a document or set of documents that complies with either ASX Market Integrity Rule 2.1.2 or Chi-X Australia Market Integrity Rule 2.1.2;
(c) the Market Participant proposes to rely on the document or set of documents referred to in paragraph (b) for the purposes of complying with these Rules; and
(d) the Market Participant notifies ASIC in writing:
  (i) that the Market Participant proposes to rely on the document or set of documents referred to in paragraph (b) for the purposes referred to in paragraph (c); and
  (ii) of any significant change in the management structure or its allocation of its responsibilities among its Responsible Executives shown in that document or those documents.

Maximum penalty: $20,000

2.1.3 Supervisory procedures

A Market Participant must have appropriate supervisory policies and procedures to ensure compliance by the Market Participant and each person involved in its business as a Market Participant with these Rules, the Market Operating Rules and the Corporations Act.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

2.1.4 Persons involved in the business—Good fame and character requirement

(1) A Market Participant must ensure that any Employee or other person who is or will be involved in the business of the Market Participant in connection with the APX Market and, in the case of a body corporate, each director or Controller, is of good fame and character and high business integrity having regard to subrule (2).

(2) In assessing whether a person is of good fame and character and high business integrity for the purpose of subrule (1):

(a) a person will not be of good fame and character if he or she is disqualified from managing a corporation under the Corporations Act or under the law of another country, or is an insolvent under administration or its equivalent in another country; and
(b) a person may not be of good fame and character or high business integrity if the person has been:
  (i) convicted of any offence;
  (ii) disciplined or adversely mentioned in a report made by, or at the request of, any government or governmental authority or agency;
  (iii) adversely mentioned in a report made by, or at the request of, the Market Operator, a Clearing Facility, a Settlement Facility or any other exchange, market operator or clearing and settlement facility; or
  (iv) disciplined by the Market Operator, a Clearing Facility, a Settlement Facility or any other exchange, market operator or clearing and settlement facility.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

2.1.5 Unprofessional Conduct

(1) A Market Participant must not engage in Unprofessional Conduct.

(2) A Market Participant must ensure that its Responsible Executives do not engage in Unprofessional Conduct.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

2.1.6 Responsibility for individuals involved in business

A Market Participant is responsible for all actions and omissions of its Employees.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

Part 2.2 Insurance and information requirements

2.2.1 Insurance requirements—Obligation to have insurance

(1) Subject to Rule 2.2.2, every Market Participant must, where the Market Participant acts for any person other than itself or a Related Body Corporate, take out and maintain, at all times, a professional indemnity (or equivalent) insurance policy that the Market Participant determines (acting reasonably) to be adequate having regard to the nature and extent of the business carried on by the Market Participant in connection with its business as a Market Participant and the responsibilities and risks assumed or which may be assumed by the Market Participant in connection with that business.

(2) The professional indemnity (or equivalent) insurance referred to in subrule (1) must include insurance against a breach of duty the Market Participant owes in a professional capacity, whether owed in contract or otherwise at law, arising from any act or omission of the Market Participant and its Employees.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

2.2.2 Insurance requirements—Insurance with Related Body Corporate

If the insurance referred to in Rule 2.2.1 is provided by a Related Body Corporate, the Market Participant must provide ASIC with the following information by no later than 10 Business Days after the issue or renewal of the insurance:

(a) the name of the Related Body Corporate and a copy of evidence sufficient to establish that it is a Related Body Corporate; and
(b) confirmation from the Related Body Corporate that it is the insurer or the self-insurer covering and indemnifying the Market Participant against the liabilities referred to in Rule 2.2.1 and a copy of the certificate evidencing the insurance.

Maximum penalty: $20,000

2.2.4 Insurance requirements—Notification of claims

In relation to any liability or potential liability of the type referred to in Rule 2.2.1, a Market Participant must immediately notify ASIC of any notification to its insurer of any claim, potential claim or circumstance that might give rise to a claim and must include the following details:

(a) any circumstance which is likely to give rise to a claim or potential claim against the Market Participant;
(b) the receipt of a notice from any person of any intention to make a claim or potential claim against the Market Participant; and
(c) the details of any claim, potential claim or circumstance against the Market Participant, including the gross contingent liability, the net contingent liability, the full name of the Market Participant’s insurer and the date the Market Participant notified its insurer of the claim, potential claim or circumstance.

Maximum penalty: $20,000

2.2.5 Information requirements—Obligation to notify of legal proceedings

If:

(a) a Market Participant commences legal proceedings against, or has legal proceedings commenced against it by, another Market Participant, a Clearing Participant, a Settlement Participant, a regulatory authority or a client in connection with their role as a Market Participant; and
(b) those legal proceedings may affect the operations of the Market Operator, or the interpretation of these Rules or the Market Operating Rules,

the Market Participant must, upon commencing or upon becoming aware of the proceedings, immediately notify ASIC and the Market Operator in writing of the particulars of the proceedings.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

Part 2.3 Responsible Executives

2.3.1 Appointment or resignation of Responsible Executives

(1) A Market Participant must notify ASIC within 10 Business Days if the Market Participant appoints a new Responsible Executive, or if a person ceases to be a Responsible Executive of the Market Participant.

(2) A Market Participant must not appoint a person as a Responsible Executive unless:

(a) the person has skills, knowledge and experience that are appropriate having regard to the supervisory role that the person will perform as a Responsible Executive in the business of the Market Participant; and
(b) as at the date the Market Participant appoints the person, the person satisfies the requirements of being a Responsible Executive under the ASX Market Integrity Rules and/or the Chi-X Australia Market Integrity Rules; or
(c) the person has:
  (i) attained a mark of at least 65% in an examination approved by ASIC under subrule (3), in the 12 months preceding the date the Market Participant appoints the person as a Responsible Executive; and
  (ii) satisfied the Compliance Education Requirements from the date the person passed the examination as referred to in subparagraph (i) to the date the Market Participant appoints the person as a Responsible Executive, pro-rata to the number of full months in that period.

(3) For the purposes of subparagraph (2)(c)(i), ASIC may approve, in writing, one or more examinations that, in the opinion of ASIC, assess knowledge and competency in the application of the provisions of these Rules, the Market Operating Rules and the Corporations Act that govern the operation of the APX Market and are relevant to the role performed by Responsible Executives.

Maximum penalty: $20,000

2.3.2 Ongoing responsibilities of Market Participants in relation to Responsible Executives

A Market Participant must ensure that each of its Responsible Executives:

(a) supervises the design and implementation activities and the functioning and review of the operations and processes referred to in Rule 2.1.1 for the Relevant Activities of that Responsible Executive; and
(b) is accountable to the Market Participant for the effective design, implementation, functioning and review of the operations and processes referred to in paragraph (a).

Maximum penalty: $20,000

2.3.3 Annual review and representation to Market Participant

(1) A Market Participant must ensure that each of its Responsible Executives:

(a) maintains the currency of his or her knowledge of these Rules, the Market Operating Rules and the Corporations Act related to the business that the Market Participant conducts in the APX Market;
(b) by 10 July each year, performs a review as at 30 June of that year, including all matters reasonably considered by the Responsible Executive to be necessary in the circumstances, of the supervision and control procedures involved in the business of the Market Participant and other relevant documentation concerning the Market Participant’s compliance with these Rules and the Market Operating Rules for the 12 month period ending on 30 June that year;
(c) by 10 July each year, determines whether, based on the enquiries referred to in paragraph (b), the controls over the operations and processes of the Relevant Activities have been, during the period referred to in paragraph (b), and continue to be, reasonably designed, implemented and functioning to achieve compliance by the Market Participant with these Rules and the Market Operating Rules; and
(d) by 10 July each year, provides a signed and dated representation to the Market Participant as to whether:
  (i) the requirements of paragraphs (a) and (b) have been met for the period referred to in paragraph (b); and
  (ii) the controls over the operations and processes of the Relevant Activities have been, for the period referred to in paragraph (b), and continue to be, reasonably designed, implemented and functioning to achieve compliance by the Market Participant with the Market Operating Rules and these Rules.

(2) The Market Participant must retain copies of the representation referred to at paragraph(1)(d), and of the documentation concerning the Market Participant’s compliance with these Rules and the Market Operating Rules on which the representation is based, for 7 years from the date the representation is provided to the Market Participant.

Maximum penalty: $20,000

2.3.4 Continuing education requirements for Responsible Executives

A Market Participant must ensure that, during the period from 1 July each year until 30 June the following year, each of its Responsible Executives meets the Compliance Education Requirements pro-rata to the number of complete months during that period in which that person is a Responsible Executive of the Market Participant.

Maximum penalty: $20,000

2.3.5 Annual continuing education and compliance self-assessment

(1) Subject to subrule (2), a Market Participant must provide a written notification to ASIC by 31 July each year that contains the following information:

(a) the name of each person who was a Responsible Executive of the Market Participant during the period from 1 July in the preceding calendar year to 30 June in the calendar year in which the notification is provided;
(b) if the person was a member of a professional body or bodies during the period referred to in paragraph (a), the name of that body or those bodies;
(c) a statement in relation to each person that the Market Participant confirms that, during the period referred to in paragraph (a), the person:
  (i) has satisfied; or
  (ii) has not satisfied,
as the case may be, each of the requirements of subrule 2.1.4(1) (good fame and character), paragraphs 2.3.1(2)(a) and (b) or (c) (skills, knowledge, experience and qualifications), subrule 2.1.5(2) (Unprofessional Conduct), paragraph 2.3.3(1)(d) (annual representation) and Rule 2.3.4 (continuing education), while the person was a Responsible Executive of the Market Participant during that period; and
(d) if subparagraph (c)(ii) applies, an explanation of the reason that the person has not satisfied the requirement.

(2) A notification provided under subrule (1) prior to 1 August 2013 need only relate to the period from the Commencement Date to 30 June 2013.

(3) The Market Participant must retain copies of the records upon which the notification referred to in subrule (1) is based for 7 years from the end of the period to which the notification relates.

Maximum penalty: $20,000

Part 2.5 Designated Trading Representatives (DTRs)

2.5.1 Trading in a Trading Platform

A Market Participant must ensure that all trading in a Trading Platform by the Market Participant is carried out either:

(a) by DTRs; or
(b) in accordance with the Automated Order Processing Requirements.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

2.5.2 Market Participant must have a DTR

A Market Participant must have at least one DTR.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

2.5.3 DTRs may submit Trading Messages

A Market Participant must ensure that only its DTRs submit Trading Messages into the Trading Platform through the Market Participant’s system, unless the trading is conducted in accordance with the Automated Order Processing Requirements.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

2.5.4 Responsibility of Market Participant

A Market Participant is responsible for the accuracy of details, the integrity and bona fides of all Trading Messages containing their unique identifier that are submitted into the Trading Platform, regardless of whether a DTR of the Market Participant was involved in their submission.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

2.5.5 DTR criteria

A Market Participant must ensure that:

(a) each of its DTRs is at all times a Representative of the Market Participant authorised to deal in the APX Products in respect of which the DTR submits orders on behalf of the Market Participant either:
  (i) under the Market Participant’s AFSL; or
  (ii) under the person’s own AFSL (unless the person is a Principal Trader not required to hold an AFSL);
(b) each of its DTRs is suitably qualified and experienced to deal in the APX Products referred to in paragraph (a), by submitting orders on behalf of the Market Participant;
(c) prior to submitting Trading Messages on behalf of the Market Participant, each DTR has demonstrated to the Market Participant knowledge of the Dealing Rules governing the process of dealing and reporting Market Transactions on the Trading Platform, and the relevant practices of the Market Operator; and
(d) each of its DTRs does not:
  (i) execute any order in a Trading Platform for or on behalf of, or which will benefit, directly or indirectly, the DTR or any associate or Relative of the DTR, without the prior written approval of the Market Participant; or
  (ii) intentionally take advantage of a situation arising as a result of:
  (A) a breakdown or malfunction in the Market Operator’s procedures or systems; or
  (B) an error in entries made by the Market Operator within a Trading Platform.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

2.5.6 Market Participant must allocate unique identifier

A Market Participant must allocate a unique identifier to each DTR of the Market Participant.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

2.5.7 Records—DTRs

A Market Participant must maintain a record of:

(a) the name, contact details and DTR identifier of each of its DTRs, while the person remains a DTR of a Market Participant; and
(b) the information in paragraph (a) for a period of 7 years from the date the person ceases to be a DTR of the Market Participant.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

Part 2.6 Foreign Participants

2.6.1 Minimum presence requirements

(1) This Rule applies to a Market Participant (“Foreign Market Participant”) that:

(a) is a foreign entity; and
(b) does not hold an AFSL.

(2) Before entering into a Market Transaction, a Foreign Market Participant must provide ASIC with a deed of the Foreign Market Participant for the benefit of and enforceable by ASIC and the other persons referred to in subsection 659B(1) of the Corporations Act, which deed provides that:

(a) the deed is irrevocable except with the prior written consent of ASIC;
(b) the Foreign Market Participant submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Australian courts in legal proceedings conducted by ASIC (including under section 50 of the ASIC Act) and, in relation to proceedings relating to a financial services law, by any person referred to in subsection 659B(1) of the Corporations Act and whether brought in the name of ASIC or the Crown or otherwise;
(c) the Foreign Market Participant covenants to comply with any order of an Australian court in respect of any matter relating to the activities or conduct of the Foreign Market Participant in relation to the APX Market or in relation to Financial Products traded on the APX Market, including but not limited to any matter relating to the Foreign Market Participant’s obligations under:
  (i) the ASIC Act;
  (ii) the Corporations Act; and
  (iii) the Corporations (Fees) Act 2001 (Cwlth);
(d) if the Foreign Market Participant is not registered under Division 2 of Part 5B.2 of the Corporations Act:
  (i) the Foreign Market Participant must have at all times an agent who is:
  (A) a natural person or a company;
  (B) resident in this jurisdiction; and
  (C) authorised to accept, on behalf of the Foreign Market Participant, service of process and notices; and
  (ii) the Foreign Market Participant must notify ASIC of any change to:
  (A) the agent; or
  (B) the name and address of the agent (if the agent is a company, address means the address of the registered office of the company); and
  (iii) service of process on the Foreign Market Participant in relation to legal proceedings conducted by ASIC (including under section 50 of the ASIC Act), and in relation to proceedings relating to a financial services law, by any person referred to in subsection 659B(1) of the Corporations Act and whether brought in the name of ASIC or the Crown or otherwise, can be effected by service on the agent;
(e) the deed applies notwithstanding that the Foreign Market Participant may have ceased to be a Market Participant; and
(f) such additional terms notified by ASIC to the Foreign Market Participant.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

Chapter 3: Client relationships

Part 3.1 Clients trading in products for first time

3.1.1 Documents to be given to a client

Before accepting an order from a person to enter into a Market Transaction, a Market Participant must give the person, in addition to all of the documents which the Market Participant is required to give the person in respect of the Market Transaction under the Corporations Act, all of the documents the Market Participant is required to give the person in respect of the Market Transaction under this Part.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

3.1.3 Information to be given to a client: Execution arrangements

Before accepting an Order from a person to enter into a Market Transaction, if the Market Participant does not have Trading Permission to execute that Market Transaction, the Market Participant must give the person a document which clearly discloses the execution arrangements in place for that Market Transaction including, without limitation:

(a) the name, principal telephone number and principal business address of the Market Participant which executes the Market Transactions of the Market Participant; and
(b) the extent of any NGF coverage, or coverage under other Compensation Arrangements, of the Market Transaction.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

3.1.4 Information to be given to a client: Clearing arrangements

(1A) This Rule only applies where there is a Clearing Facility through which Market Transactions are cleared.

(1) Before accepting an order from a person (the “Client”) to enter into a Market Transaction if the Market Participant:

(a) is not a Clearing Participant, who is permitted under the Clearing Rules to clear the Market Transaction; or
(b) is a Clearing Participant who is permitted under the Clearing Rules to clear that Market Transaction, but has an arrangement with another Clearing Participant to clear that Market Transaction, and such transaction is cleared under the arrangement,

the Market Participant must give the Client a document which clearly discloses the clearing arrangements in place for that Market Transaction, including, without limitation, any information required by subrule (2).

(2) The written disclosure document referred to in subrule (1) must include:

(a) the name, principal telephone number and principal business address of the Clearing Participant which clears the Market Transactions of the Market Participant; and
(b) if, under the clearing arrangements:
  (i) notwithstanding that the Market Transaction may have been entered into on the Client’s behalf, the Clearing Participant carries the Clearing Obligations and any settlement obligations for all Market Transactions of the Market Participant, including those of the Client, and must settle as principal with the Clearing Facility or the relevant counter-party; or
  (ii) the Client owes obligations to the Clearing Participant in relation to the clearing and settlement of Market Transactions;
  (iii) the Clearing Participant has rights against the Client in the event that:
  (A) the Client fails to pay the amounts due in respect of Market Transactions; or
  (B) the Client fails to fulfil its settlement obligations in respect of Market Transactions,
statements to that effect.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

3.1.4A Information to be given to a client: Settlement arrangements

(1) Before accepting an order from a person (the “Client”) to enter into a Market Transaction if the Market Participant:

(a) is not a Settlement Participant, who is permitted under the Settlement Rules to settle the Market Transaction; or
(b) is a Settlement Participant who is permitted under the Settlement Rules to settle that Market Transaction, but has an arrangement with a Settlement Agent to settle that Market Transaction, and such transaction is settled under the arrangement,

the Market Participant must give the Client a document which clearly discloses the settlement arrangements in place for that Market Transaction, including, without limitation, any information required by subrule (2).

(2) The written disclosure document referred to in subrule (1) must include:

(a) the name, principal telephone number and principal business address of the Settlement Agent which settles the Market Transactions of the Market Participant; and
(b) if, under the settlement arrangements:
  (i) notwithstanding that the Market Transaction may have been entered into on the Client’s behalf, the Market Participant carries the Settlement Obligations for all Market Transactions of the Market Participant, including those of the Client, and must settle as principal with the relevant counter-party; or
  (ii) the Client owes obligations to the Market Participant in relation to the settlement of Market Transactions;
  (iii) the Market Participant has rights against the Client in the event that:
  (A) the Client fails to pay the amounts due in respect of Market Transactions; or
  (B) the Client fails to fulfil its settlement obligations in respect of Market Transactions,
statements to that effect.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

3.1.9 Client Agreement for Partly Paid Securities

(1) Before entering into a Market Transaction in respect of Partly Paid Securities on behalf of a Retail Client (the “Client”), subject to subrule (2), the Market Participant must enter into a written agreement with the Client under which the Market Participant discloses, and the Client acknowledges that they are aware, that:

(a) a Partly Paid Security is a security which may require the Client to make a further payment or payments at some time in the future;
(b) it is the responsibility of the Client to obtain and read a copy of the prospectus, product disclosure statement or information memorandum issued by an Issuer which sets out the particular features of, and rights and obligations attaching to, a Partly Paid Security before the Client places an order to buy a Partly Paid Security;
(c) the Client may be required to make further payments on a Partly Paid Security and that a failure to make a further payment by the specified date(s) may result in an Issuer of a Partly Paid Security or their associates or agents taking action, including legal action, against the Client to recover the outstanding payments and/or may result in the forfeiture of the Client’s entitlement to the Partly Paid Security;
(d) in certain circumstances the Client may be required to make a further payment on a Partly Paid Security despite the fact that the Client may have disposed of a Partly Paid Security prior to the date that a further payment falls due;
(e) the Client should monitor announcements made by the Issuer of a Partly Paid Security and that it is the responsibility of the Client to inform themselves of the dates or circumstances that a further payment falls due and the last day that the Client can dispose of the Partly Paid Security before the Client becomes required to make a further payment; and
(f) the amount of a further payment may be unrelated to the financial performance of a Partly Paid Security and that the amount of the further payment may exceed the intrinsic value of a Partly Paid Security at the time a further payment falls due.

(2) A Market Participant is not required to enter into an agreement under subrule (1) before entering into a Market Transaction to sell Partly Paid Securities.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

3.1.10 Other terms of Client Agreement

For the avoidance of doubt, the agreement referred to in Rule 3.1.9 may include other disclosures, acknowledgements, terms and conditions agreed between the Market Participant and the Client, or required to be included under the Market Operating Rules, provided they are not inconsistent with the requirements of Rule 3.1.9.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

3.1.11 Market Participant to keep copy of Client Agreement and disclosures

The Market Participant must retain a copy of each agreement entered into under Rule 3.1.9 and any disclosures made under this Part for at least 7 years following the date on which the agreement, or the arrangement the subject of the disclosure, is terminated.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

Part 3.2 Trading as Principal

3.2.1 Application

This Part 3.2 applies where a Market Participant enters into a Market Transaction with a Client as Principal, except where the Client is a Market Participant or a participant or member of a Recognised Overseas Exchange.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

3.2.2 Disclosure and consent

Before entering into a Market Transaction as Principal with a person (the “Client”), the Market Participant must disclose, or have previously disclosed, in accordance with paragraph 991E(1)(c) of the Corporations Act, that it is acting, or may act, as Principal and have obtained the consent of the Client, in accordance with paragraph 991E(1)(d) of the Corporations Act.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

3.2.3 Confirmation must include disclosure

When a Market Participant enters into a Market Transaction with a person (the “Client”) as Principal, the confirmation issued by the Market Participant to the Client under Rule 3.4.1 in respect of that Market Transaction must state that the Market Participant entered into the transaction as Principal and not as agent.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

3.2.4 Brokerage and commission

(1) When a Market Participant enters into a Market Transaction as Principal on its own behalf with a person (the “Client”), the Market Participant must not charge the Client brokerage, commission or any other fee in respect of the Market Transaction, except in the following circumstances:

(a) where the Client is a Prescribed Person of the Market Participant;
(b) where the Client is a Wholesale Client who has consented to the Market Participant charging brokerage, commission or the other fee (and that consent has not been withdrawn); or
(c) where otherwise permitted by the Corporations Act.

(2) The Market Participant must keep a written record of any consent given by a Wholesale Client under paragraph (1)(b), and send a copy of the record to that Wholesale Client as soon as practicable.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

3.2.5 Extended meaning of dealing as Principal

(1) Except where a Market Participant is dealing as a trustee of a trust in which the Market Participant has no direct or indirect beneficial interest, a reference in this Part 3.2 to a Market Participant dealing or entering into a Market Transaction as Principal, includes a reference to a Market Participant entering into a Market Transaction on its own behalf or on behalf of any of the following persons:

(a) a partner of the Market Participant;
(b) a director, company secretary or Substantial Holder of the Market Participant;
(c) the Immediate Family, Family Company or Family Trust of a partner, director, company secretary or Substantial Holder of the Market Participant;
(d) a body corporate in which the interests of one or more of the partners singly or together constitute a controlling interest; and
(e) any Related Body Corporate of the Market Participant.

(2) Without limitation, in paragraph (1)(b), a reference to dealing on behalf of a Substantial Holder means that any APX Product the subject of the Market Transaction is, or will be on the execution of the transaction, beneficially owned by the Substantial Holders.

(3) For the purposes of subrule (2), APX Products beneficially owned by a Substantial Holder include APX Products that appear or would appear as assets on the balance sheet or consolidated balance sheet of that Substantial Holder’s assets and liabilities, except where the APX Products concerned appear or would appear as assets on the balance sheet or consolidated balance sheet of a life insurance company registered under the Life Insurance Act 1995 (Cwlth) or the equivalent Act of a State, and are held for or on behalf of that life insurance company’s statutory funds.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

3.2.6 Register of persons who are regarding as Principal

A Market Participant must keep a register of the persons referred to in paragraphs 3.2.5(1)(a) to (e).

Maximum penalty: $100,000

Part 3.3 Client instructions

3.3.1 Market Participant restrictions

A Market Participant must not:

(a) accept or execute instructions from a person (a “Client”) to enter into a Market Transaction except in accordance with these Rules and the Market Operating Rules;
(b) enter into a Market Transaction for a Client, except in accordance with the instructions of the Client, or of a person authorised in writing by a Client to give such instructions, or pursuant to an exercise of discretion in respect of that particular Client’s Managed Discretionary Account or as otherwise permitted by these Rules or the Market Operating Rules;
(c) allocate a Market Transaction to a Client’s account unless the Market Transaction was entered into on the instructions of the Client, or of a person authorised in writing by a Client to give such instructions, or pursuant to an exercise of discretion in respect of that particular Client’s Managed Discretionary Account or as otherwise permitted by these Rules or the Market Operating Rules; or
(d) except as permitted under these Rules or the Market Operating Rules, or in writing by ASIC, enter into or arrange a Market Transaction on the instructions of a Client unless the instructions are executed in such a manner that the Market Transaction is entered into on a Trading Platform.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

3.3.2 Excessive trading

A Market Participant must not enter into Market Transactions on a Managed Discretionary Account for a Retail Client where the size or frequency of the Market Transactions may be considered excessive having regard to the investment objectives, financial situation and needs of the client and the relevant markets.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

Part 3.4 Reporting to Clients

3.4.1 Confirmations—Form and timing

(1) Subject to Rule 3.4.3, a Market Participant must give a confirmation to a person (the “Client”) in respect of each Market Transaction entered into on the Client’s instructions or on the Client’s Managed Discretionary Account.

(2) The Market Participant must send to, or cause to be sent to, the Client a confirmation:

(a) in writing;
(b) electronically; or
(c) in another form permitted by ASIC,

as soon as practicable after the Market Participant enters into the Market Transaction.

(3) The confirmation must meet the following requirements:

(a) the confirmation must include all of the information required to be included in a confirmation under Division 3 of Part 7.9 of the Corporations Act;
(b) the confirmation must include a statement that the confirmation is issued subject to:
  (i) the directions, decisions and requirements of the Market Operator, these Rules, the Market Operating Rules and where relevant, the Clearing Rules and the Settlement Rules;
  (ii) the customs and usages of the APX Market; and
  (iii) the correction of errors and omissions,

unless the Market Participant has obtained and retained an acknowledgment from the Client that the conditions set out in subparagraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) apply to the issue of confirmations to that Client;

(c) if the Market Transaction is to be cleared or settled by another party which is a Clearing Participant or Settlement Agent, the confirmation must include the name of the Market Participant which executed the trade and, where relevant, the Clearing Participant which clears it and/or the Settlement Agent who settles it;
(d) the confirmation must state the time by which all documents and information which the Market Participant, Clearing Participant and/or, Settlement Agent will require to settle the Market Transaction must be provided by the Client:
  (i) in the case of a sale of APX Products, the date by which the Client must provide all documents and security holder information (including, if applicable, the relevant holder identification number or personal identification number and/or shareholder reference number) required by the Relevant Clearing Participant to meet its Clearing Obligations and/or, Relevant Settlement Participant to meet its Settlement Obligations; and
  (ii) if applicable, the date by which the Client must provide the consideration specified in the confirmation; and
  (iii) if applicable, the date by which the net consideration to the Client falls due;
(e) the confirmation must state the amount of money which the Client must pay, or which the Client will receive, on settlement of the Market Transaction and, if the Client is required to pay an amount of money, the time by which that money must be paid;
(f) where the Market Transaction involved a Crossing, the confirmation must include a statement to that effect;
(g) the confirmation must include any disclosure required under Rule 3.2.3; and
(h) if the confirmation is a confirmation in respect of a Conditional Sale of an APX Product and the corresponding confirmation in respect of the conditional purchase of the relevant APX Product, the confirmation must be endorsed as conditional and state the condition and the effect of non-fulfilment of the condition.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

3.4.2 Confirmations—accumulation and price averaging

If a Market Participant is required by Rule 3.4.1 to give a confirmation to a person (the “Client”) and the Market Participant enters into multiple Market Transactions for the purpose of completing the Client’s order, the Market Participant may accumulate those Market Transactions on a single confirmation and specify the volume weighted average price for those Market Transactions provided that:

(a) the Client authorised in writing the accumulation and price averaging of 2 or more Market Transactions in a confirmation at or before the time the order was placed; and
(b) if requested by the Client, the Market Participant gives to the Client a statement of all the individual prices of the APX Products, as applicable, which are accumulated and averaged under this Rule.

Maximum penalty: $20,000

3.4.3 Confirmations—clients other than Retail Clients

(1) A Market Participant is not required to comply with Rule 3.4.1 in respect of a client that is not a Retail Client, provided the Market Participant has notified the client before entering a Trading Message on the client’s behalf that Market Transactions effected for the client are subject to:

(a) the directions, decisions and requirements of the Market Operator, these Rules, the Market Operating Rules, and where relevant, the Clearing Rules and the Settlement Rules;
(b) the customs and usages of the APX Market; and
(c) the correction of errors and omissions.

(2) A Market Participant must keep a record of the notification.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

Part 3.5 Client Money and Property

3.5.1 Trust accounts APX Market Transactions

A Market Participant must establish one or more clients’ trust accounts for money received by the Market Participant in connection with dealings in APX Products.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

3.5.3 Bank accounts to be with Australian ADI

All money received by a Market Participant which the Corporations Act requires the Market Participant to deposit in a clients’ segregated account or in a clients’ trust account must be deposited in an account with an Australian ADI in Australia (which has been rated by an Approved Ratings Agency as being at least short term investment grade) unless:

(a) the money is received by the Market Participant in another country and the Market Participant deposits the money in a clients’ segregated account or clients’ trust account with a branch of an Australian ADI with such a rating in that country; or
(b) Rule 3.5.4 applies.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

3.5.4 Approved foreign banks

(1) ASIC may approve, in writing, foreign banks at which Market Participants may:

(a) open clients’ segregated accounts or clients’ trust accounts for the handling of money received for a person in another country or for a person who is resident in another country; and
(b) invest money held in clients’ segregated accounts or clients’ trust accounts in another country.

(2) ASIC may impose conditions on the use of a foreign bank approved under subrule (1) for clients’ segregated accounts and clients’ trust accounts.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

3.5.5 Change of rating or approval of ADI

If the Market Participant has a clients’ segregated account or a clients’ trust account with an Australian ADI which ceases to have the rating referred to in Rule 3.5.3 or with a foreign bank which ceases to be a bank approved under Rule 3.5.4, the Market Participant must transfer the balance of the relevant account to an entity which meets the requirements of Rule 3.5.3 or Rule 3.5.4, as applicable.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

3.5.9 Reconciliation of trust accounts

(1) A Market Participant must perform a reconciliation of:

(a) the aggregate balance held by it at the close of business on each Business Day in clients’ trust accounts maintained pursuant to Rule 3.5.1 and the corresponding balance as recorded in the Market Participant’s accounting records; and
(b) the balance held by it at the close of business on the last Business Day of each week on trust for each person on whose behalf money is held in a trust account maintained pursuant to Rule 3.5.1 and the corresponding balance as recorded in the Market Participant’s accounting records,

that:

is accurate in all respects; and

(d) contains a statement signed by a Responsible Executive or a person authorised in writing by a Responsible Executive, stating that the signatory believes, and has no reason not to believe, that the reconciliation is accurate in all respects.

(2) The Market Participant must perform the reconciliation referred to in subrule (1) by 7.00 pm on the Trading Day after the Trading Day to which the reconciliation relates.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

3.5.10 Obligation to notify ASIC in respect of reconciliation

A Market Participant must notify ASIC, in writing, within 2 Business Days if:

(a) a reconciliation has not been performed in accordance with Rule 3.5.9; or
(b) according to a reconciliation performed pursuant to Rule 3.5.9, there is a deficiency of funds in its trust accounts (or, in respect of a reconciliation performed pursuant to paragraph 3.5.9(1)(b), a deficiency in respect of any particular person on whose behalf money is held in the trust account) or if it is unable to reconcile its trust accounts pursuant to Rule 3.5.9.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

3.5.11 Schedule of trust amounts

Each Market Participant must by no later than 5 Business Days after 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December in each year cause to be prepared a schedule as at the above dates showing the respective amounts held in the Market Participant’s trust account on behalf of clients together with the names of the particular client in respect of each amount.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

Part 3.6 Prohibition of advice to Client

3.6.1 Definition used in this Part 3.6

For the purposes of this Part 3.6, “Client” includes a shareholder in a company which constitutes the Market Participant.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

3.6.2 Market Participant possesses information that is not generally available

Where as a result of its relationship to a Client, a Market Participant is in possession of information that is not generally available in relation to a Financial Product and which would be likely to materially affect the price of that Financial Product if the information was generally available, that Market Participant must not give any advice to any other Client of a nature that would damage the interest of either of those Clients.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

3.6.3 Chinese Walls in place

For the purposes of Rule 3.6.2, a Market Participant is not regarded as having possession of information that is not generally available in relation to a Financial Product where:

(a) that Market Participant has in place arrangements whereby information known to persons included in one part of the business of the Market Participant is not available, directly or indirectly, to those involved in another part of the business of the Market Participant;
(b) it is accepted that in each of the parts of the business of the Market Participant so divided, decisions will be taken without reference to any interest which any other such part or any person in any other such part of the business of the Market Participant may have in the matter; and
(c) the person advising the Client is not in possession of that information.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

3.6.4 Certain actions do not constitute giving advice

For the purposes of Rule 3.6.2, a Market Participant or an Employee or partner of a Market Participant advising a Client that the Market Participant is precluded from giving the Client advice will not be regarded as giving advice.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

Chapter 4: Records

Part 4.1 Trading records

4.1.1 Records of dealings for clients

(1) This Rule applies to a Market Participant who receives instructions to enter into a Market Transaction on behalf of a person (the “Client”), whether or not a Trading Message corresponding to those instructions is entered into or matched on a Trading Platform.

(2) Subject to Rule 4.1.7, in addition to complying with the requirements of the Corporations Act to the extent that those requirements apply to dealing in the APX Market, the Market Participant must maintain sufficiently detailed records showing:

(a) particulars of the instructions, including, without limitation:
  (i) the Financial Product to be bought or sold;
  (ii) the number thereof;
  (iii) any price or time related instructions;
  (iv) any time limit on the instructions;
  (v) the date and time the Market Participant received the instructions;
  (vi) instructions or decisions to purchase or sell Financial Products pursuant to a Managed Discretionary Account (including, without limitation, the Financial Products to be bought or sold and the number thereof, any price or time related instructions or decisions and the name of the person who generated the instruction or made the decision), whether the instruction or decision was executed or not; and
  (vii) the authority of the Client, if any, for accumulation and price averaging under Rule 3.4.2;
(b) the name of the Client;
(c) the name of the person who gave the instructions (or, if the Trading Message was received by Automated Order Processing, the information set out in Rule 5.5.3);
(d) any amendment of any kind to the instructions or Trading Message (including, without limitation, cancellation of an instruction or Trading Message, variation of the number of Financial Products to be bought or sold or variation of any price or time related instructions) including the date and time of any amendment to the instructions or Trading Message;
(e) the name of the person who received the instruction (or, if the Trading Message was received by Automated Order Processing, the information set out in Rule 5.5.3);
(f) the name of any other person who passed the instruction on between the person who initially received the instruction, and the Trading Platform and the date and time they passed it;
(g) the name of the DTR who entered a Trading Message into a Trading Platform (or, if the Trading Message was submitted by Automated Order Processing, the information set out in Rule 5.5.3);
(h) the time the DTR entered a Trading Message into a Trading Platform (or if the Trading Message was submitted by Automated Order Processing, the time at which the Trading Message was initiated by the Open Interface Device); and
(i) if the Trading Message gives rise to a Market Transaction, the date and time that occurs.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

4.1.2 Records of dealings on Own Account

(1) This Rule applies to a Market Participant that makes a decision, or gives instructions to, enter into a Market Transaction on its Own Account, whether or not the Market Transaction is executed.

(2) Subject to Rule 4.1.8, the Market Participant must, in addition to complying with the requirements of the Corporations Act to the extent that those requirements apply to dealing in the APX Market provided by the Market Operator, maintain sufficiently detailed records showing:

(a) particulars of the decision or instructions, including, without limitation:
  (i) the name of the person who generated the instruction or made the decision;
  (ii) the Financial Products to be bought or sold;
  (iii) the number thereof;
  (iv) any price or time related instructions or decisions; and
  (v) any time limit on the instruction;
(b) any amendment of any kind to the instructions or Trading Message (including, without limitation, cancellation of an instruction or Trading Message, variation of the number of Financial Products to be bought or sold or variation of any price or time related instructions), including the date and time of any amendment to the instruction or Trading Message;
(c) the name of any other person who passed the instruction on between the person who initially gave the instruction or made the decision, and a Trading Platform and the date and time they passed it;
(d) the name of the DTR who entered a Trading Message into a Trading Platform (or if the Trading Message was submitted by Automated Order Processing, the information set out in Rule 5.5.3);
(e) the time the DTR entered a Trading Message into a Trading Platform (or if the Trading Message was submitted by Automated Order Processing, the time at which the Trading Message was initiated by the Open Interface Device); and
(f) if the Trading Message gives rise to a Market Transaction, the date and time that occurs.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

4.1.3 Records to be made immediately

A Market Participant must make the records referred to in Rules 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.7 and 4.1.8 immediately after the event to which they relate and record the time of the relevant event.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

4.1.4 Records to be retained for prescribed period

A Market Participant must retain the records referred to in Rules 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.7 and 4.1.8 for 7 years from the date the record is made.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

4.1.5 Certain records maintained by the Market Operator

Certain obligations of a Market Participant under Rules 4.1.1 and 4.1.2 may be met by relying on records maintained electronically as set out in Rule 4.1.6.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

4.1.6 Conditions for reliance on the Market Operator records

(1) Where the records of the Market Participant:

(a) are able to connect the DTR identifier with the particular DTR; and
(b) identify the person, or any other persons, receiving the instructions, generating an order or making a decision (if not the DTR) and a DTR is capable of being connected to a particular Trading Record or sequence of events,

a Market Participant may:

when dealing for clients satisfy certain of its obligations in relation to paragraphs 4.1.1(2)(g), 4.1.1(2)(h) and 4.1.1(2)(i); or

(d) when dealing on its Own Account, satisfy certain of its obligations in relation to subparagraphs 4.1.2(2)(a)(i) to (iv), paragraphs 4.1.2(2)(b), 4.1.2(2)(d), 4.1.2(2)(e) and 4.1.2(2)(f),

by relying on records maintained by the Market Operator, but only to the extent permitted by subrule (2).

(2) For the purposes of subrule (1), the Market Participant may satisfy the obligation specified in column 1 of the following table by relying on records maintained by the Market Operator in the circumstances specified in column 2 of the following table:

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

4.1.7 Records of dealings for clients by a Market Participant who instructs another Market Participant to execute the dealings

A Market Participant that instructs another Market Participant to enter into a Market Transaction on behalf of a person:

(a) need not comply with paragraphs 4.1.1(2)(e), (f), (g), (h), and (i) in respect of that instruction;
(b) must maintain sufficiently detailed records in respect of such instruction showing:
  (i) the name of the person who received the instructions;
  (ii) the name of any person who passed the instruction on between the person who initially received the instruction and the person instructing the Market Participant to enter into the Market Transaction;
  (iii) the name of the person who instructed such Market Participant to enter into the Market Transaction; and
  (iv) the time the person instructed such Market Participant to enter into the Market Transaction.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

4.1.8 Records of dealings on its Own Account by a Market Participant who instructs another Market Participant to execute the dealings

A Market Participant that instructs another Market Participant to enter into a Market Transaction on its behalf:

(a) need not comply with paragraphs 4.1.2(2)(c), (d), (e) and (f) in respect of that instruction; and
(b) must maintain sufficiently detailed records in respect of such instruction showing:
  (i) the name of any person who passed the instruction on between the person who initially gave the instruction or made the decision and the Market Participant instructed to enter into the Market Transaction;
  (ii) the name of the person who instructed such Market Participant to enter into the Market Transaction; and
  (iii) the time the person instructed such Market Participant to enter into the Market Transaction.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

4.1.9 Records regarding Authorised Persons

A Market Participant must maintain records of:

(a) the name and contact details of an Authorised Person, and if that Authorised Person is an agent of another person, the details of that other person; and
(b) the security arrangements regarding access by the Authorised Person to a computer or other device connected to the Market Participant’s Open Interface Device and its location or if not fixed, the method of identifying the computer or other device,

for a period of 7 years from the date the person ceases to be an Authorised Person.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

Part 4.2 Records—General

4.2.1 General recordkeeping requirements

(1) A Market Participant must maintain accurate records in sufficient detail to show particulars of:

(a) all money received or paid by the Market Participant, including trust account receipts and payments in a manner usual for a business of the kind being carried on by a Market Participant;
(b) all transactions by the Market Participant with or for the account of:
  (i) a person of a type described in Rule 5.4.1 or a Related Party;
  (ii) other Market Participants; and
  (iii) members of any overseas stock exchange;
(c) all income from commissions, interest and other sources and all expenses, commissions and interest paid;
(d) all assets and liabilities, including contingent liabilities of the Market Participant;
(e) all APX Products which are the property of the Market Participant, showing by whom they, or the documents of title to them, are held and if held otherwise than by the Market Participant, whether they are held as security for loans or advances;
(f) all APX Products which are not the property of the Market Participant but for which the Market Participant or any nominee controlled by it is accountable, showing by whom and for whom such Financial Products are held and:
  (i) in respect of those which are held for safe custody details sufficient to identify such APX Products; and
  (ii) in respect of those which are held for any person or firm or corporation as security for loans or advances made by the Market Participant details sufficient to identify such APX Products;
(g) all confirmations issued by the Market Participant and details of any statements and specifications which are required by these Rules, the Market Operating Rules and the Corporations Act to appear on confirmations; and
(h) all underwriting transactions entered into by the Market Participant.

(2) All APX Products held for safe custody or whose certificates are held for safe custody must either be registered in the name of the client or the Market Participant’s nominee.

(3) The holding of APX Products for security must be authorised in writing by the owner thereof or some other person lawfully authorised to do so.

(4) An authority referred to in subrule (3) must specify the period for which such APX Products or documents of title may be held.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

4.2.2 Client complaints—Records of complaints and correspondence

(1) A Market Participant must keep the following records of complaints received from clients:

(a) a copy of all written complaints;
(b) a copy of all written correspondence between the Market Participant and the clients and a written summary of any oral communication in connection with a written complaint; and
(c) any correspondence or documents relating to the resolution of a complaint through any complaints resolution scheme.

(2) A Market Participant must keep the records referred to in subrule (1) in respect of a complaint for at least 5 years from the date of the last correspondence in respect of that complaint.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

Part 4.3 Access to records

4.3.1 Records to be in writing and in English

(1) A Market Participant must keep all of the records it is required to maintain under this Chapter 4, in writing and in the English language or in a manner which will enable them to be readily accessible by ASIC and readily converted into writing in the English language.

(2) A Market Participant must, if directed by ASIC in writing to do so, convert records maintained under this Chapter 4 into writing and into English.

(3) A Market Participant must comply with a direction given under subrule (2) by the time specified by ASIC when giving the direction.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

4.3.2 Records kept outside of Australia

(1) If the records which a Market Participant is required to maintain under this Chapter 4 are kept outside Australia:

(a) the Market Participant must send, or cause to be sent, to Australia records which will enable true and fair financial statements to be prepared; and
(b) the Market Participant must, if directed by ASIC in writing to do so, produce any of its records in Australia.

(2) A Market Participant must comply with any direction given by ASIC under paragraph (1)(b) by the time specified by ASIC when giving the direction.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

Chapter 5: Trading

Part 5.1 Client order priority

5.1.1 Application and meaning of dealing on “Own Account”

Subject to Rule 5.1.2, a reference to a Market Participant having an order for its own account means that the APX Products to be bought or sold are (in the case of a sale) or will be on the completion of the transaction (in the case of a purchase) beneficially owned by the Market Participant or a Prescribed Person, where the APX Products beneficially owned by a Market Participant or Prescribed Person include APX Products which would appear as assets on the balance sheet or consolidated balance sheet of that Market Participant or Prescribed Person.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

5.1.2 Exceptions

The following are not regarded as orders on a Market Participant’s own account:

(a) an order placed by a life insurance company registered under the Life Insurance Act 1995 (Cwlth) (or equivalent State legislation) on behalf of a statutory fund; or
(b) an order placed by a Controller or a Related Body Corporate of the Market Participant or of a Controller on behalf of clients of, or funds managed by them or their Related Bodies Corporate.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

5.1.3 Fairness and priority in dealing

A Market Participant must deal fairly and in due turn with:

(a) clients’ orders; and
(b) a client order and an order on its Own Account.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

5.1.4 Relevant factors

(1) In considering whether Rule 5.1.3 has been complied with, the following factors are relevant:

(a) the Market Participant acts in accordance with its instructions;
(b) orders that do not involve the exercise of discretion by the Market Participant in relation to the time or price or quantity of the order are entered in a Trading Platform in the sequence in which they are received, and otherwise as expeditiously as practicable;
(c) orders of a client (which is not a Prescribed Person) that involve the exercise of discretion by the Market Participant in relation to the time or price or quantity of the order are given preference, within the meaning of subrule (2), over orders on the Market Participant’s Own Account, unless the client otherwise consents;
(d) if the sequence of entry of orders into a Trading Platform is not clearly established by the time the orders were received, and one of the orders is for the Market Participant’s Own Account, the Market Participant gives preference to the order of a client over any order for the Market Participant’s Own Account;
(e) if the Market Participant has acted in accordance with its procedures to ensure that a person initiating, transmitting or executing an order who is aware of instructions of a client (which is not a Prescribed Person) to deal in the relevant APX Products that has not been entered in a Trading Platform does not use that information to the disadvantage of that client;
(f) the Market Participant buys or sells for a Wholesale Client; and
(g) allocation of Market Transactions occurs in accordance with Rule 5.1.5.

(2) In paragraph (1)(c), a reference to a Market Participant giving preference to an order of a client over an order on the Market Participant’s Own Account, means that from the time of receipt of the order until it is fully executed, the Market Participant does not enter into, on its Own Account, a Market Transaction for the same APX Products on the same terms, having regard to subrule (3), unless:

(a) the APX Products are allocated to the client in accordance with paragraph 5.1.6(c); or
(b) the APX Products are allocated to the client pursuant to an allocation policy previously disclosed to the client, to which the client consents, under which the Market Participant may buy or sell (and be allocated) the same APX Products on its Own Account.

(3) For the purposes of subrule (2), a limit order which cannot be executed owing to price differences is not on the same terms.

(4) A Market Participant must keep a record of any consent given by a client for the purposes of paragraph (1)(c).

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

5.1.5 Fairness and priority in allocation

A Market Participant must allocate Market Transactions fairly.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

5.1.6 Relevant factors

In considering whether Rule 5.1.5 has been complied with, the following factors are relevant:

(a) allocation of Market Transactions is immediate and automatic, unless circumstances or instructions justify later or manual allocation;
(b) Market Transactions executed pursuant to instructions (whether an order of a client or an order on its Own Account) are allocated in the sequence in which the Market Participant received those instructions, entered those instructions or the Market Transactions were effected;
(c) the client’s instructions;
(d) allocation of a Market Transaction occurs in accordance with the disclosed allocation policy of the Market Participant; and
(e) except as provided in these Rules or the Market Operating Rules, a Market Participant does not allocate Market Transactions to fulfil all or part of an order for its Own Account when it has an unfulfilled order on the same terms for those Market Transactions from a client.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

5.1.7 Unexecuted order in APX Products—Market Participant not to make Bids or Offers

If a Market Participant has or receives an Order to buy or sell an APX Product underlying a Derivatives Market Contract in the Underlying Market which may materially affect:

(a) the market price of the APX Product in the Underlying Market; or
(b) the level of an Underlying Index, the level of which is calculated by reference to the value of that APX Product and other products,

the Market Participant must not make Bids or Offers to enter into an Options Market Transaction over that APX Product as Principal until the order in the APX Product has been executed in the Underlying Market.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

5.1.8 Allocation policy and Automated Client Order Processing Crossings—disclosure to Client

(1) A Market Participant must when requested to do so by a person (the “Client”), disclose to the Client each of the following:

(a) the policy it adopts in the allocation of Market Transactions to fill orders placed with it; and
(b) in relation to Crossings under the Market Operating Rules:
  (i) that the Client’s orders may match opposite orders in a Trading Platform by the same Market Participant, effectively resulting in a Crossing and entitling the Market Participant to commission from both sides of the transaction; and
  (ii) if the Market Participant deals as Principal, that the Client’s orders may match opposite orders in a Trading Platform on behalf of the same Market Participant as Principal.

(2) The Market Participant must keep a record of disclosures made under subrule (1).

Maximum penalty: $20,000

Part 5.4 Transactions by connected persons (including persons connected with other Market Participants)

5.4.1 Application

In this Part 5.4, a reference to a connected person is a reference to the following persons:

(a) an Employee;
(b) a company controlled by an Employee; and
(c) a Controlled Trust (other than a trust controlled by an Immediate Family of an employee or a trust in relation to which an Immediate Family of an Employee is a trustee or holds more than 50% of the whole beneficial interest).

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

5.4.2 Internal consent required for trading by connected persons

(1) A Market Participant must not enter into a Market Transaction by or for the account of its connected persons, whether the Market Transaction is conducted through that Market Participant or through another Market Participant unless the Market Transaction has been approved in writing in accordance with subrule (4) by a Responsible Executive, director or partner of the Market Participant or a person with written delegation for that responsibility from a Responsible Executive, director or partner (other than the Employee concerned).

(2) A Market Participant must obtain a separate approval under subrule (1) for each relevant Market Transaction.

(3) A Market Participant must take reasonable steps to ensure that a person who approves a Market Transaction under subrule (1) takes into account the circumstances of the proposed transaction and anything which might materially affect the price of the relevant APX Product the subject of the Market Transaction.

(4) For the purposes of subrule (1), the approval in writing must include:

(a) all the information required by Part 4.1 for orders, whether or not the Market Participant will be executing the order to which the approval relates; and
(b) the date and time of approval.

(5) If a Market Transaction referred to in subrule (1) is conducted through another Market Participant, that Market Participant must, as soon as practicable after entering into the Market Transaction, give to the employing Market Participant a confirmation in respect of the Market Transaction.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

Part 5.5 Participant’s trading infrastructure

5.5.1 Knowledge of Market Participant

If a Trading Message embedded with a Market Participant’s unique identifier is submitted, the Trading Message is taken for all purposes under these Rules to have been submitted in a Trading Platform by or with the knowledge of the Market Participant.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

5.5.2 Organisational and technical resources

A Market Participant must have and maintain the necessary organisational and technical resources to ensure that:

(a) Trading Messages submitted by the Market Participant do not interfere with:
  (i) the efficiency and integrity of the APX Market; or
  (ii) the proper functioning of a Trading Platform; and
(b) the Market Participant complies at all times with these Rules and the Market Operating Rules.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

5.5.3 Trading management arrangements

A Market Participant must have arrangements in place so that at all times the Market Participant can determine the origin of all orders and Trading Messages, including:

(a) the different stages of processing each order (regardless of whether a Trading Message is generated) and the time at which each stage of processing occurred;
(b) the order that corresponds to a Trading Message;
(c) the identity and capacity of the person placing the order that corresponds to the Trading Message;
(d) whether the Trading Message was the result of Automated Order Processing;
(e) the Open Interface Device and the computer or other device of the Market Participant connected to an Open Interface Device of the Market Participant through which the Trading Message was submitted;
(f) the DTR with responsibility for that Open Interface Device or computer or other device connected to the Open Interface Device (unless the Trading Message was the result of Automated Order Processing); and
(g) whether the Trading Message was submitted on the Market Participant’s Own Account or for a client.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

5.5.4 Trading management arrangements—Records

A Market Participant must maintain records of the matters referred to in Rule 5.5.3, for a period of 7 years from the date of the Trading Message to which the matters relate.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

Part 5.6 Automated Order Processing—Filters, conduct, and infrastructure

5.6.1 Responsible use of system for Automated Order Processing

A Market Participant which uses its system for Automated Order Processing must at all times:

(a) have appropriate automated filters, in relation to Automated Order Processing; and
(b) ensure that such use does not interfere with:
  (i) the efficiency and integrity of the APX Market; or
  (ii) the proper functioning of any Trading Platform.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

5.6.2 Authorised Persons for Automated Client Order Processing

A Market Participant which uses its system for Automated Client Order Processing must also have procedures in place to ensure that each Authorised Person has demonstrated to the Market Participant knowledge of the order entry system of the Market Participant and of the Dealing Rules, directions, decisions and requirements of the Market Operator relevant to the type of order submission facilities given to the Authorised Person by the Market Participant.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

5.6.3 Automated Order Processing system requirements

(1) A Market Participant which uses its system for Automated Order Processing must ensure that the system has in place:

(a) organisational and technical resources, including having appropriate automated filters, filter parameters and processes to record any changes to the filters or filter parameters, to enable Trading Messages to be submitted into the Trading Platform without interfering with the efficiency and integrity of the APX Market or the proper functioning of the Trading Platform;
(b) trading management arrangements, including having appropriate automated filters, filter parameters and processes to record any changes to the filters or filter parameters to enable the ready determination of the origin of all orders and trading messages;
(c) security arrangements to monitor for and prevent unauthorised persons having access to a gateway or an Open Interface Device or to a computer or other device connected to an Open Interface Device, and to ensure that the Automated Order Processing system does not interfere with the efficiency and integrity of the APX Market or the proper functioning of the Trading Platform;

controls, including automated controls, that enable immediate suspension, limitation or prohibition of the conduct of all Automated Order Processing or Automated Order Processing in respect of:

      one or more Authorised Persons or clients;
      Automated Client Order Processing; or
      one or more APX Products; and

(e) controls that enable immediate:

  suspension of, limitation of, or prohibition on, the entry into the APX Market of Trading Messages in a series of related Trading Messages where the Market Participant has identified that Trading Messages in the series have entered the APX Market and have interfered with or are likely to interfere with the efficiency or integrity of the APX Market; and
  cancellation of Trading Messages in a series that have already entered the APX Market where the entry of further messages in the series has been suspended, limited or prohibited under subparagraph (i).

(2) A Market Participant that uses its system for Automated Order Processing must have direct control over all automated filters and the filter parameters for those filters.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

5.6.4 Review of documentation and systems prior to use of Automated Order Processing system

(1) Before using their system for Automated Order Processing, a Market Participant must, for the purposes of providing the certification referred to in Rule 5.6.6, perform a review of the Market Participant’s policies, procedures, system design documentation, including the Market Participant’s procedures for implementation of subsequent changes to the Automated Order Processing software, filters and filter parameters, and other relevant documentation concerning the Market Participant’s compliance with Part 5.6 of these Rules.

(2) A Market Participant that was not required to comply with Rule 5.6.4 in relation to a system for Automated Order Processing because of the operation of Rule 5.6.6A is not required to conduct the review referred to in subrule (1) in relation to that system for Automated Order Processing.

Note: Rule 5.6.6A was omitted by the ASIC Market Integrity Rules (APX Market) Amendment 2013 (No.1) from 26 May 2014. Rule 5.6.6A stated that Market Participants who complied with ASX Market Integrity Rule 5.6.4 or Chi-X Australia Market Integrity Rule 5.6.4, did not need to comply with this Rule 5.6.4.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

5.6.5 Representations as to organisational and technical resources, trading management arrangements and security arrangements, prior to use of Automated Order Processing system

(1) Before using their system for Automated Order Processing, the Market Participant must, for the purposes of providing the certification referred to in Rule 5.6.6, obtain written representations that the Market Participant has in place organisational and technical resources, arrangements and controls in relation to the system for Automated Order Processing that meet the requirements of Rule 5.6.3.

(2) The representations referred to in subrule (1) must:

(a) be provided by persons who are suitably qualified and experienced in relation to the organisational and technical resources, arrangements and controls for which they are making the representation;
(b) include the name of the person making the representation;
(c) be signed and dated by the person making the representation; and
(d) set out the methodology used by the person to enable them to make the representation.

(3) A Market Participant that was not required to comply with Rule 5.6.5 in relation to a system for Automated Order Processing because of the operation of Rule 5.6.6A is not required to obtain the representations referred to in subrule (1) in relation to that system for Automated Order Processing.

Note: Rule 5.6.6A was omitted by the ASIC Market Integrity Rules (APX Market) Amendment 2013 (No. 1) from 26 May 2014. Rule 5.6.6A stated that Market Participants who complied with ASX Market Integrity Rule 5.6.5 or Chi-X Australia Market Integrity Rule 5.6.5, did not need to comply with this Rule 5.6.5.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

5.6.6 Certification of Automated Order Processing system

(1) Before using their system for Automated Order Processing, a Market Participant must:

(a) give a written certification (“AOP Initial Certification”) to ASIC that includes the matters set out in subrule (2); and
(b) receive a written confirmation from ASIC that the AOP Initial Certification complies with subrule (2).

(2) The AOP Initial Certification given by the Market Participant to ASIC must include:

(a) the name of the Market Participant;
(b) the version number and name of the Market Participant’s Automated Order Processing system;
(c) copies of the representations required by Rule 5.6.5 in relation to the system referred to in paragraph (b);
(d) a confirmation by the Market Participant that:
  (i) the Market Participant has performed the review required by Rule 5.6.4 and that nothing came to the attention of the Market Participant during the course of that review which would indicate that the Market Participant is unable to comply with Part 5.6 of these Rules;
  (ii) based on the review required by Rule 5.6.4 and the representations required by Rule 5.6.5, the Market Participant’s Automated Order Processing system:
  (A) does, or does not, permit Automated Client Order Processing, as the case may be; and
  (B) meets the requirements of Rule 5.6.3; and
  (iii) the representations required by Rule 5.6.5 have been made by persons whom the Market Participant considers to be suitably qualified and experienced in relation to the organisational and technical resources, arrangements and controls for which they are making those representations; and
(e) the name of the directors of the Market Participant referred to in subrule (3).

(3) At least two directors of the Market Participant must sign and date the written certification referred to in subrule (2).

(4) A Market Participant that was not required to comply with Rule 5.6.6 in relation to a system for Automated Order Processing because of the operation of Rule 5.6.6A is not required to give the certification referred to in subrule (1) in relation to that system for Automated Order Processing.

Note: Rule 5.6.6A was omitted by the ASIC Market Integrity Rules (APX Market) Amendment 2013 (No. 1) from 26 May 2014. Rule 5.6.6A stated that Market Participants who complied with ASX Market Integrity Rule 5.6.6 or Chi-X Australia Market Integrity Rule 5.6.6 did not need to comply with this Rule 5.6.6.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

5.6.8 AOP Material Change Review

(1) Before making a material change to any of the organisational or technical resources, arrangements or controls employed to comply with Rule 5.6.3, the Market Participant must ensure that an appropriately qualified person performs a review (“AOP Material Change Review”) of the material changes to the Automated Order Processing system, the Market Participant’s policies, procedures, system design documentation, including the Market Participant’s procedures for implementation of subsequent changes to the Automated Order Processing software, filters and filter parameters and other relevant documentation concerning the Market Participant’s compliance with Part 5.6 of these Rules.

(2) Before implementing a material change the subject of an AOP Material Change Review the Market Participant must, for the purposes of providing the AOP Annual Notification, obtain written representations from the person who performed the AOP Material Change Review that nothing came to the attention of the person during the course of the AOP Material Change Review that would indicate that the Market Participant is unable to comply with Part 5.6 of these Rules.

(3) The representations referred to in subrule (2) must:

include the name of the person making the representation; and
be signed and dated by the person making the representation.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

5.6.8A AOP Annual Review

(1) Where a Market Participant has not performed an AOP Material Change Review in relation to an Automated Order Processing system in the 12 months before the AOP Annual Review Date, the Market Participant must, for the purposes of providing the AOP Annual Notification in relation to that Automated Order Processing system, ensure that an appropriately qualified person performs a review (“AOP Annual Review”) of the Automated Order Processing system, the Market Participant’s policies, procedures, system design documentation, including the Market Participant’s procedures for implementation of changes to the Automated Order Processing software, filters and filter parameters and other relevant documentation concerning the Market Participant’s compliance with Part 5.6 of these Rules.

(2) The Market Participant must, for the purposes of providing the AOP Annual Notification in relation to an Automated Order Processing system, obtain written representations from the person who performed the AOP Annual Review in relation to the Automated Order Processing system, that nothing came to the attention of the person during the course of the AOP Annual Review that would indicate that the Market Participant is unable to comply with Part 5.6 of these Rules.

(3) The representations referred to in subrule (2) must:

(a) include the name of the person making the representation; and
(b) be signed and dated by the person making the representation.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

5.6.8B AOP Annual Notification

(1) A Market Participant must, within 10 Business Days of each AOP Annual Review Date, given a written notice (“AOP Annual Notification”) to ASIC that includes:

(a) the name of the Market Participant; and
(b) the version number and name of the Market Participant’s Automated Order Processing system; and
(c) a confirmation by the Market Participant that nothing came to the attention of the Market Participant during the 12 months before the AOP Annual Review date that would indicate that the Market Participant is unable to comply with Part 5.6 of these Rules; and
(d) the name of the directors of the Market Participant referred to in subrule (2).

(2) At least two directors of the Market Participant must sign and date the AOP Annual Notification.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

5.6.11 Further certification

(1) A Market Participant must, if directed by ASIC in writing to do so, provide a further certification in a form acceptable to ASIC from an appropriately qualified person acceptable to ASIC as to compliance by the Market Participant with the Automated Order Processing Requirements.

(2) A Market Participant must comply with a direction under subrule (1) within the time specified in the direction.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

5.6.12 Limitations on Automated Order Processing

(1) This Rule applies where ASIC reasonably considers that:

(a) a Market Participant is not complying with the Automated Order Processing Requirements; or
(b) it is otherwise appropriate to direct a Market Participant to take the actions referred to in subrule (2).

(2) A Market Participant must, if directed to do so by ASIC:

(a) cease conducting Automated Order Processing until ASIC is satisfied that the Market Participant complies with the Automated Order Processing Requirements; or
(b) immediately suspend, limit or prohibit the conduct of Automated Order Processing in respect of:
  (i) one or more Authorised Persons or clients;
  (ii) Automated Client Order Processing;
  (iii) Automated Order Processing; or
  (iv) one or more APX Products,
as required by the direction.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

Part 5.7 Manipulative trading

5.7.1 False or misleading appearance

A Market Participant must not make a Bid or Offer for, or deal in, any APX Products:

(a) as Principal:
  (i) with the intention; or
  (ii) if that Bid, Offer or dealing has the effect, or is likely to have the effect,
  of creating a false or misleading appearance of active trading in any APX Product or with respect to the market for, or the price of, any APX Product; or
(b) on account of any other person where:
  (i) the Market Participant intends to create;
  (ii) the Market Participant is aware that the person intends to create; or
  (iii) taking into account the circumstances of the Order, a Market Participant ought reasonably suspect that the person has placed the Order with the intention of creating,
a false or misleading appearance of active trading in any APX Product or with respect to the market for, or the price of, any APX Product.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

5.7.2 Circumstances of Order

In considering the circumstances of the Order, the Market Participant must have regard to the following matters:

(a) whether the Order or execution of the Order would be inconsistent with the history of or recent trading in that APX Product;
(b) whether the Order or execution of the Order would materially alter the market for, or the price of, the APX Product;
(c) the time the Order is entered or any instructions concerning the time of entry of the Order;
(d) whether the person on whose behalf the Order is placed, or another person who the Market Participant knows to be a Related Party of that person, may have an interest in creating a false or misleading appearance of active trading in any APX Product or with respect to the market for, or the price of, any APX Product;
(e) whether the Order is accompanied by settlement, delivery or security arrangements which are unusual;
(f) where the Order appears to be part of a series of Orders, whether when put together with other Orders which appear to make up the series, the Order or the series is unusual having regard to the matters referred to in this Rule 5.7.2;
(g) whether there appears to be a legitimate commercial reason for that person placing the Order, unrelated to an intention to create a false or misleading appearance of active trading in or with respect to the market for, or price of, any APX Product; and
(h) whether the transaction, bid or offer the execution of which is proposed will involve no change of beneficial ownership.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

5.7.3 Obligations apply to Automated Order Processing

A Market Participant must also comply with this Part 5.7 in respect of Orders the subject of Automated Order Processing.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

Part 5.9 Fair and orderly markets

5.9.1 Market must remain fair and orderly

A Market Participant must not do anything which results in a market for an APX Product not being both fair and orderly, or fail to do anything where that failure has that effect.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

5.9.2 Representative must be available

A Market Participant must ensure that a Representative of the Market Participant is available to receive communications from other Market Participants or from the Market Operator from during Trading Hours, unless otherwise determined in writing by ASIC and notified to the Market Participant.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

5.9.3 Must not take advantage of breakdown or malfunction

A Market Participant must not take advantage of a situation arising as a result of a breakdown or malfunction in the Market Operator’s procedures or systems or an error in any Trading Message submitted by the Market Operator.

Maximum penalty: $1,000,000

Part 5.10 Dealing in APX Products

5.10.1 Market Participants may not deal in APX Products for which Official Quotation will be sought

Except as permitted in Rule 5.10.2, a Market Participant is prohibited, either in its own office or elsewhere, from making quotations or dealing in a new issue or placement of APX Products (except Loan Securities):

(a) made for the purpose of qualifying a company for admission to the Official List; or
(b) for which Official Quotation will be sought,

until those APX Products have been granted Official Quotation.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

5.10.2 When Market Participants may deal in APX Products for which Official Quotation will be sought

Notwithstanding Rule 5.10.1 but subject to any other provisions of these Rules and the Market Operating Rules, a Market Participant may deal in APX Products to which Rule 5.10.1 applies in the following circumstances:

(a) a Market Participant may underwrite or sub-underwrite a new issue or placement of APX Products;
(b) a Market Participant may dispose of APX Products if those APX Products comprise an underwriting or sub-underwriting shortfall;
(c) where the APX Products have been issued on a pro-rata basis to holders;
(d) where a listed entity acquires assets and as part or full consideration, issues new APX Products (except Loan Securities) to the vendor and the Market Participant:
  (i) has made a prior firm arrangement with the vendor to place these APX Products as soon as they are issued; and
  (ii) ensures that the details of the issue to the vendor are advised to the APX Market by the listed entity immediately the APX Products are issued;
(e) where a Market Participant:
  (i) makes a placement of new APX Products (except Loan Securities) for which Official Quotation will be sought, and the Market Participant ensures that all investors accepting the APX Products are informed in writing that Market Participants cannot deal in the APX Products either as Principal or agent until Official Quotation is granted in respect of those APX Products;
  (ii) accepts selling orders in APX Products (except Loan Securities) for which Official Quotation will be sought, and the Market Participant takes all reasonable steps to ensure that the APX Products are not sold before the APX Products have been granted Official Quotation; or
  (iii) accepts selling orders in APX Products (except Loan Securities) where the APX Products are of the same class as APX Products which have already been granted Official Quotation and:
  (A) the APX Products have already been issued by the Issuer; and
  (B) the fact that the APX Products have been issued has been notified to, and released to the APX Market by, the APX Announcements Office; and
(f) a Market Participant may dispose of or acquire ETF Securities which are the subject of a subscription application if:
  (i) the ETF Securities are in a class of ETF Securities which are quoted on the APX Market;
  (ii) the subscription application is irrevocable and subject only to transfer of the subscription consideration from the subscriber to the Issuer;
  (iii) the disposal or acquisition is made on the APX Market in accordance with these Rules and the Market Operating Rules;
  (iv) there is an arrangement between the Issuer and APX under which the ETF Securities will be granted Official Quotation before settlement of the disposal or acquisition; and
  (v) the number of ETF Securities on issue is regularly reported to APX on the basis required by APX.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

5.10.3 Dealings in Securities for which Official Quotation will not be sought

A Market Participant may deal in new Securities issued by a listed entity for which Official Quotation will not be sought 24 hours after that entity has advised the APX Market of the details of the issue.

Note: There is no penalty for this Rule.

5.10.4 Dealings in APX Products suspended from Official Quotation

A Market Participant must not deal in APX Products which have been suspended from quotation or trading.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

5.10.5 Disclosure of shortfall—Must disclose to Client

A Market Participant, an Employee or a director of a Market Participant or a company which is a partner of a Market Participant who or which will be required to acquire APX Products as underwriter or sub-underwriter must not offer such APX Products to clients unless:

(a) they first inform the clients concerned of the closing date of the issue or offering of the APX Products and the reasons for the acquisition; or
(b) the offer to the client is made more than 90 days from the closing date.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

5.10.6 Expenses—Reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses

Where a Market Participant seeks out-of-pocket expenses involved in the purchase or sale of APX Products, the Market Participant must not cover that charge by an increase or reduction in the price of the APX Products.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

5.10.7 Nominee holdings—Restrictions on when an Equity Security can be recorded in the name of a nominee company

(1) A Market Participant must not cause the ownership of an Equity Security of which it is not the beneficial owner to be registered in its own name or in the name of its partners, directors or Employees.

(2) A Market Participant may only cause the ownership of an Equity Security referred to in subrule (1) to be registered in the name of a nominee company which:

(a) unless otherwise agreed by ASIC, is incorporated in Australia with a name which contains the word “nominee”;
(b) has a constitution which precludes the nominee company from owning any Equity Security or other property except cash beneficially; and
(c) is a directly legally and beneficially wholly owned subsidiary of the Market Participant which is operated by the Market Participant unless the Market Participant is a Clearing Participant who appoints a Settlement Participant as its agent in accordance with the Clearing Rules.

Maximum penalty: $100,000

Part 5.11 Suspicious activity reporting

5.11.1 Notification requirement

(1) Subject to subrule (2), if a Market Participant has reasonable grounds to suspect that:

(a) a person (“the Insider”) has placed an order into or entered into a transaction on the Market in relation to a financial product while in possession of inside information (within the meaning of section 1042A of the Corporations Act), whether or not the Market Participant is aware of:
  (i) the identity of the Insider; or
  (ii) all of the details of the order or transaction; or
(b) a transaction or an order transmitted to a Trading Platform has or is likely to have the effect of:
  (i) creating an artificial price for trading in financial products on the Market;
  (ii) maintaining at a level that is artificial (whether or not it was previously artificial) a price for trading in financial products on the Market;
  (iii) creating, or causing the creation of, a false or misleading appearance of active trading in financial products on the Market; or
  (iv) creating, or causing the creation of, a false or misleading appearance with respect to the market for, or the price for trading in, financial products on the Market,
whether or not the Market Participant is aware of:
  (v) the intention of any party to the transaction or order; or
  (vi) all of the details of the transaction or order,

the Market Participant must, as soon as practicable, notify ASIC in writing of the details of the transaction or order (to the extent known by the Market Participant) and the reasons it suspects the matter set out in paragraphs (a) and/or (b).

(2) A Market Participant is not required to notify ASIC under subrule (1) to the extent the Market Participant has reported the information that would otherwise be required to be contained in the notification to the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre under section 41 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (Cwlth) or under section 16 of the Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988 (Cwlth).

Maximum penalty: $20,000

5.11.2 Confidentiality

A Market Participant who notifies ASIC under subrule 5.11.1(1) must not disclose that the notification was made, or the information contained in the notification, other than:

(a) for the purposes of seeking legal advice; or
(b) as required by law.

Maximum penalty: $20,000