Australian Securities and Investments Commission Regulations 2001
In ForceCTH
Jurisdiction
Commonwealth
Act Number
192 of 2001
Collection
legislative instrument
Plain English Summary
8/10 complexity
These Regulations set detailed rules under the ASIC Act: they define which instruments and services are (or are not) ‘‘financial products’’ or ‘‘financial services’’, prescribe standard forms and notices, set reporting and disclosure requirements for ASIC, and lay down procedural rules for panels (including the Takeovers Panel). They affect financial firms, market operators, insurers (notably add‑on insurance), registrars, prescribed professional bodies and consumers by changing who must comply, what must be reported, and when statutory duties or exemptions apply.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission Regulations 2001 (the Regulations) are the principal subordinate instrument that gives detailed operational effect to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (the Act). They perform several distinct functions that together enable ASIC to exercise its regulatory and enforcement powers effectively. The Regulations prescribe the forms that ASIC must use when exercising compulsory information-gathering powers, including notices to attend examinations and notices to produce books. They specify which agencies can receive confidential information from ASIC, including state and territory consumer affairs offices, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, the Australian Taxation Office, and the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (regulation 3). The Regulations also define key concepts on which the Act depends, such as what constitutes a credit facility for the purposes of the financial product definitions in Division 2 of Part 2 of the Act, and which professional accounting bodies are recognised for the purposes of the definition in subsection 5(1) of the Act (regulation 2AC). They set out the procedural rules for the Takeovers Panel, including how applications are made, how submissions are lodged and distributed, and how conferences are conducted. The Regulations also establish exemptions from the deferred sales model for add-on insurance products, and they prescribe the circumstances in which ASIC must convene a Financial Services and Credit Panel to consider matters relating to relevant providers (regulation 12N). In addition, the Regulations prescribe the professional standards schemes that limit the civil liability of members of certain professions, including accountants, lawyers, and surveyors (regulation 3A). The territorial application of the Act to external territories is also addressed, with different provisions applying to Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands compared to other external territories (regulation 2A).
Current sections
Direct links to the current provisions in Australian Securities and Investments Commission Regulations 2001.
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Part 1
Preliminary
Part 1—Preliminary
1
Name of Regulations
1 Name of Regulations
These Regulations are the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Regulations 2001.
2
Definitions
2 Definitions
Note: A number of expressions used in these Regulations are defined in the Act or Part 1.2 (Interpretation) of the Corporations Act 2001: see subsection 5(2) of the Act.
In these Regulations:
Act means the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001.
Australian carbon credit unit has the same meaning as in the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011.
carbon unit has the same meaning as in the Clean Energy Act 2011.
eligible international emissions unit has the same meaning as in the Australian National Registry of Emissions Units Act 2011.
Form means a form set out in Schedule 1.
2A
Territorial application of Act
2A Territorial application of Act
(1) For subsection 4(2) of the Act, the Act applies in each external Territory in accordance with this regulation.
(2) For the Territory of Christmas Island and the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands:
(a) Division 2 of Part 2 of the Act applies in relation to:
(i) a financial product; and
(ii) a financial service; and
(b) the remainder of the Act applies in relation to:
(i) a superannuation product; and
(ii) an RSA; and
(iii) a financial service that relates to a superannuation product; and
(iv) a financial service that relates to an RSA.
(3) For an external Territory other than the Territory of Christmas Island and the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Act applies in relation to:
(a) a superannuation product; and
(b) an RSA; and
(c) a financial service that relates to a superannuation product; and
(d) a financial service that relates to an RSA.
2AC
Professional accounting bodies
2AC Professional accounting bodies
For the definition of professional accounting body in subsection 5(1) of the Act, the following bodies are prescribed:
(a) CPA Australia;
(b) The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia;
(c) Institute of Public Accountants.
2B
Financial products: credit facility
2B Financial products: credit facility
(1) For paragraph 12BAA(7)(k) of the Act, each of the following is a credit facility:
(a) the provision of credit:
(i) for any period; and
(ii) with or without prior agreement between the credit provider and the debtor; and
(iii) whether or not both credit and debit facilities are available;
(b) a facility:
(i) known as a bill facility; and
(ii) under which a credit provider provides credit by accepting, drawing, discounting or indorsing a bill of exchange or promissory note;
(c) the provision of credit by a pawnbroker in the ordinary course of a pawnbroker’s business (being a business which is being lawfully conducted by the pawnbroker);
(d) the provision of credit by the trustee of the estate of a deceased person by way of an advance to a beneficiary or prospective beneficiary of the estate;
(e) the provision of credit by an employer, or a related body corporate of an employer, to an employee or former employee (whether or not it is provided to the employee or former employee with another person);
(f) the provision of a mortgage that secures obligations under a credit contract (other than a lien or charge arising by operation of any law or by custom);
(g) a guarantee related to a mortgage mentioned in paragraph (f);
(h) a guarantee of obligations under a credit contract;
(i) a facility for making non‑cash payments if payments made using the facility will all be debited to a facility mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (h).
(2) The provision of consumer credit insurance that includes a contract of general insurance for the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 is not a credit facility.
(3) In this regulation:
credit means a contract, arrangement or understanding:
(a) under which:
(i) payment of a debt owed by one person (a debtor) to another person (a credit provider) is deferred; or
(ii) one person (a debtor) incurs a deferred debt to another person (a credit provider); and
(b) including any of the following:
(i) any form of financial accommodation;
(ii) a hire purchase agreement;
(iii) credit provided for the purchase of goods or services;
(iv) a contract, arrangement or understanding for the hire, lease or rental of goods or services, other than a contract, arrangement or understanding under which:
(A) full payment is made before or when the goods or services are provided; and
(B) for the hire, lease or rental of goods—an amount at least equal to the value of the goods is paid as a deposit in relation to the return of the goods;
(v) an article known as a credit card or charge card;
(vi) an article, other than a credit card or a charge card, intended to be used to obtain cash, goods or services;
(vii) an article, other than a credit card or a charge card, commonly issued to customers or prospective customers by persons who carry on business for the purpose of obtaining goods or services from those persons by way of a loan;
(viii) a liability in respect of redeemable preference shares;
(ix) a financial benefit arising from or as a result of a loan;
(x) assistance in obtaining a financial benefit arising from or as a result of a loan;
(xi) issuing, indorsing or otherwise dealing in a promissory note;
(xii) drawing, accepting, indorsing or otherwise dealing in a negotiable instrument (including a bill of exchange);
(xiii) granting or taking a lease over real or personal property;
(xiv) a letter of credit.
2BA
Declared financial product
2BA Declared financial product
For paragraph 12BAA(7)(m) of the Act, a margin lending facility is declared to be a financial product for the purposes of subsection 12BAA(7) of the Act.
2BAA
Specific things that are not financial products—payment systems
2BAA Specific things that are not financial products—payment systems
For the purposes of paragraph 12BAA(8)(e) of the Act, each of the following is not a financial product:
(a) the credit card system operated within Australia known as the MasterCard system or MasterCard network card system and designated as a payment system under section 11 of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 12 April 2001;
(b) the credit card system operated within Australia known as the VISA system or the VISA network card system and designated as a payment system under section 11 of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 12 April 2001;
(c) the debit card system operated within Australia known as Visa debit and designated as a payment system under section 11 of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 23 February 2004;
(d) the payment system operated within Australia known as the ATM system and designated by Designation No 1 of 2008 as a payment system under section 11 of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 10 December 2008;
(e) the debit card system operated within Australia known as the EFTPOS system and designated by Designation No 1 of 2012 as a payment system under subsection 11(1) of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 12 June 2012;
(f) the debit card system operated within Australia known as Debit MasterCard and designated by Designation No 2 of 2015 (Designation of the Debit MasterCard system) as a payment system under subsection 11(1) of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 15 October 2015;
(g) the prepaid card system operated within Australia and designated by Designation No 3 of 2015 (Designation of the EFTPOS prepaid system) as a payment system under subsection 11(1) of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 15 October 2015;
(h) the prepaid card system operated within Australia known as MasterCard Prepaid and designated by Designation No 4 of 2015 (Designation of the MasterCard prepaid system) as a payment system under subsection 11(1) of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 15 October 2015;
(i) the prepaid card system operated within Australia known as Visa Prepaid and designated by Designation No 5 of 2015 (Designation of the Visa prepaid system) as a payment system under subsection 11(1) of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 15 October 2015.
2BB
Specific things that are not financial products—Australian carbon credit units and eligible international emissions units
2BB Specific things that are not financial products—Australian carbon credit units and eligible international emissions units
(1) For paragraph 12BAA(8)(p) of the Act:
(a) an Australian carbon credit unit is not a financial product; and
(b) an eligible international emissions unit is not a financial product.
(2) On 1 July 2012:
(a) subregulation (1) ceases to apply; and
(b) Australian carbon credit units and eligible international emissions units become financial products.
2BC
Specific things that are not financial products—certain tradeable water rights
2BC Specific things that are not financial products—certain tradeable water rights
(1) For paragraph 12BAA(8)(p) of the Act, each of the following is not a financial product:
(a) tradeable water rights;
(b) an arrangement:
(i) under which a person (the seller) has, or may have, an obligation to sell tradeable water rights at a future date; and
(ii) under which another person (the buyer) has, or may have, an obligation to buy the tradeable water rights, or replacement water rights, at a future date; and
(iii) that does not permit the seller’s obligations to be wholly settled by cash, or by set‑off between the seller and the buyer, rather than by transfer of ownership of the tradeable water rights or replacement water rights; and
(iv) in relation to which neither usual market practice, nor the rules of a licensed market or of a licensed CS facility, allow the seller’s obligations to be closed out by matching up the arrangement with another arrangement of the same kind under which the seller has offsetting obligations to buy the tradeable water rights or replacement water rights.
(2) In subregulation (1):
replacement water rights means tradeable water rights that are granted, issued or authorised as a replacement for the seller’s tradeable water rights, including as a result of transformation arrangements mentioned in subsection 97(1) of the Water Act 2007.
tradeable water rights has the same meaning as in the Water Act 2007.
2BD
Specific things that are not financial products—guarantees issued by the NHFIC
2BD Specific things that are not financial products—guarantees issued by the NHFIC
For paragraph 12BAA(8)(p) of the Act, a guarantee the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation has issued in the performance of its function under paragraph 8(1)(ca) of the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation Act 2018 is not a financial product.
2C
Meaning of financial service—off‑market offers for financial products
2C Meaning of financial service—off‑market offers for financial products
For paragraph 12BAB(1)(h) of the Act, a person provides a financial service if:
(a) the person makes an unsolicited offer to purchase a financial product from another person otherwise than through a licensed financial market; and
(b) the other person acquired the financial product as a retail client.
2D
Circumstances in which a person is taken to be provided a traditional trustee company service
2D Circumstances in which a person is taken to be provided a traditional trustee company service
For subsection 12BAB(1B) of the Act, a person who is one of the following:
(a) a person who may request an annual information return under subregulation 5D.2.01(3) of the Corporations Regulations 2001;
(b) a person who requests the preparation of a will, a trust instrument, a power of attorney or an agency arrangement;
is, in relation to an estate management function, prescribed as the person to whom the service is taken to be provided for the purpose of Division 2 of Part 2 of the Act.
2DA
Prescribed amount—acquiring financial services as a consumer
2DA Prescribed amount—acquiring financial services as a consumer
For the purposes of paragraph 12BC(3)(a) of the Act, the amount of $100,000 is prescribed.
2E
Prescribed requirements for definition of assert a right to payment
2E Prescribed requirements for definition of assert a right to payment
For paragraph 12BEA(1)(e) of the Act, the following requirements are prescribed:
(a) the statement must include the text ‘This is not a bill. You are not required to pay any money.’;
(b) the text must be the most prominent text in the document.
2F
Prescribed requirements for warning statements
2F Prescribed requirements for warning statements
For paragraphs 12DM(1AA)(b) and 12DMB(2)(b) of the Act, the following requirements are prescribed:
(a) the warning statement must include the text ‘This is not a bill. You are not required to pay any money.’; and
(b) the text must be the most prominent text in the document.
Part 2
General
Part 2—General
3A
Professional standards schemes
3A Professional standards schemes
For subsection 12GNA(2) of the Act, a scheme and any modifications to the scheme set out in the following table are prescribed.
Note: Column 2 of the table below is included for information only.
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%; border-collapse:collapse"><thead><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Prescribed professional standards schemes</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.7%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Item</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Column 1</span><br><span>Scheme</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Column 2</span><br><span>Date prescribed</span></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="width:8.7%; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>1</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The CPA Australia Professional Standards Scheme, published in the New South Wales Government Gazette No. 227, 6</span><span> </span><span>June 2025</span></p><p class="notemargin"><span>Note:</span><span style="width:15.45pt; text-indent:0pt; display:inline-block"> </span><span>This Scheme was formerly the CPA Australia Ltd Professional Standards (Accountants) Scheme, published in the New South Wales Government Gazette No. 98, 30</span><span> </span><span>August 2019, including as modified by the extension published in the New South Wales Government Gazette No. 71, 1</span><span> </span><span>March 2024.</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The day Schedule</span><span> </span><span>1 to the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Treasury Laws Amendment (Professional Standards Schemes No. 2) Regulations</span><span style="font-style:italic"> </span><span style="font-style:italic">2025</span><span> commences</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.7%; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>2</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Professional Standards Scheme, published in the New South Wales Government Gazette No.</span><span> </span><span>121, 28</span><span> </span><span>March</span><span> </span><span>2025</span></p><p class="notetext" style="margin-left:47.95pt"><span>Note:</span><span style="width:22.55pt; text-indent:0pt; display:inline-block"> </span><span>This Scheme was formerly the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Professional Standards Scheme, published in the New South Wales Government Gazette No. 72, 12</span><span> </span><span>July 2019, including as modified by the extension published in the New South Wales Government Gazette No.</span><span> </span><span>71, 1</span><span> </span><span>March 2024.</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>13</span><span> </span><span>July 2025</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.7%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>3</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The Law Society of New South Wales Professional Standards Scheme, published in the New South Wales Government Gazette No. 383, 27</span><span> </span><span>September 2024</span></p><p class="notemargin"><span>Note:</span><span style="width:15.45pt; text-indent:0pt; display:inline-block"> </span><span>This Scheme was formerly the Law Society of New South Wales Professional Standards Scheme, published in the New South Wales Government Gazette No. 87, 7</span><span> </span><span>September 2018, including as modified by the extension published in the New South Wales Government Gazette No.</span><span> </span><span>311, 14</span><span> </span><span>July</span><span> </span><span>2023.</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>22</span><span> </span><span>November 2024</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.7%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext" style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid"><span>4</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The New South Wales Bar Association Professional Standards Scheme, published in the New South Wales Government Gazette No. 121, 28</span><span> </span><span>March 2025</span></p><p class="notemargin"><span>Note:</span><span style="width:15.45pt; text-indent:0pt; display:inline-block"> </span><span>This Scheme was formerly the New South Wales Bar Association Professional Standards Scheme, published in the New South Wales Government Gazette No.</span><span> </span><span>179, 20</span><span> </span><span>December 2019.</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext" style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid"><span>1</span><span> </span><span>July 2025</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.7%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>6</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The Law Institute of Victoria Limited Professional Standards Scheme, published in the Victoria Government Gazette No. G 11, 17</span><span> </span><span>March 2022</span></p><p class="notemargin"><span>Note:</span><span style="width:15.45pt; text-indent:0pt; display:inline-block"> </span><span>This Scheme was formerly the Law Institute of Victoria Limited Scheme, published in the Victoria Government Gazette No. G 16, 21</span><span> </span><span>April 2016, including as modified by the extension published in the Victoria Government Gazette No. G 9, 4</span><span> </span><span>March 2021.</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext" style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid"><span>1</span><span> </span><span>July 2022</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.7%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>7</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The Victorian Bar Professional Standards Scheme, published in the Victoria Government Gazette No. S 207, 29</span><span> </span><span>April 2025</span></p><p class="notemargin"><span>Note:</span><span style="width:15.45pt; text-indent:0pt; display:inline-block"> </span><span>This Scheme was formerly the Victorian Bar Professional Standards Scheme, published in the Victoria Government Gazette No.</span><span> </span><span>G</span><span> </span><span>16, 18</span><span> </span><span>April 2019, including as modified by the extension published in the Victoria Government Gazette No.</span><span> </span><span>G 45, 9</span><span> </span><span>November 2023.</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>1</span><span> </span><span>July 2025</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.7%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>8</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The Bar Association of Queensland Professional Standards Scheme, approved as described in the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Professional Standards (Bar Association of Queensland Professional Standards Scheme) Notice</span><span style="font-style:italic"> </span><span style="font-style:italic">2024 </span><span>(Qld), 21</span><span> </span><span>June 2024</span></p><p class="notemargin"><span>Note:</span><span style="width:15.45pt; text-indent:0pt; display:inline-block"> </span><span>This Scheme was formerly the Bar Association of Queensland Professional Standards Scheme, approved as described in the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Professional Standards (Bar Association of Queensland Professional Standards Scheme) Notice</span><span style="font-style:italic"> </span><span style="font-style:italic">2019</span><span> (Qld), 18</span><span> </span><span>February 2019.</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>21</span><span> </span><span>August 2024</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.7%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>10</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The Queensland Law Society Professional Standards Scheme, approved as described in the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Professional Standards (The Queensland Law Society Professional Standards Scheme) Notice</span><span style="font-style:italic"> </span><span style="font-style:italic">2021</span><span> (Qld), 17</span><span> </span><span>December 2021</span></p><p class="notemargin"><span>Note:</span><span style="width:15.45pt; text-indent:0pt; display:inline-block"> </span><span>This Scheme was formerly the Queensland Law Society Professional Standards Scheme, approved as described in the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Professional Standards (Queensland Law Society Professional Standards Scheme) Notice</span><span style="font-style:italic"> </span><span style="font-style:italic">2016</span><span> (Qld), 30</span><span> </span><span>June 2016, including as modified by the extension published in the Queensland Government Gazette No. 63, 23</span><span> </span><span>April 2021.</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext" style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid"><span>1</span><span> </span><span>July 2022</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.7%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>12</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The Law Society of Western Australia Professional Standards Scheme, published in the Western Australian Government Gazette No.</span><span> </span><span>23, 8</span><span> </span><span>March 2024</span></p><p class="notemargin"><span>Note:</span><span style="width:15.45pt; text-indent:0pt; display:inline-block"> </span><span>This Scheme was formerly the Law Society of Western Australia Professional Standards Scheme, published in the Western Australian Government Gazette No.</span><span> </span><span>62, 7</span><span> </span><span>May 2019.</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>1</span><span> </span><span>July 2024</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.7%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>13</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The Western Australian Bar Association Professional Standards Scheme, published in the Western Australian Government Gazette No. 51, 2</span><span> </span><span>May 2025</span></p><p class="notemargin"><span>Note:</span><span style="width:15.45pt; text-indent:0pt; display:inline-block"> </span><span>This Scheme was formerly the Western Australian Bar Association Professional Standards Scheme, published in the Western Australian Government Gazette No.</span><span> </span><span>63, 24</span><span> </span><span>April 2020.</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>1</span><span> </span><span>July 2025</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.7%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>15</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The Law Society of South Australia Professional Standards Scheme, published in the South Australian Government Gazette No.</span><span> </span><span>5, 20</span><span> </span><span>January 2022</span></p><p class="notemargin"><span>Note:</span><span style="width:15.45pt; text-indent:0pt; display:inline-block"> </span><span>This Scheme was formerly the Law Society of South Australia Professional Standards Scheme, published in the South Australian Government Gazette No.</span><span> </span><span>21, 5</span><span> </span><span>April 2017, including as modified by the amendments published in the South Australian Government Gazette No.</span><span> </span><span>77, 21</span><span> </span><span>November 2017.</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>1</span><span> </span><span>July 2022</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.7%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>16</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The South Australian Bar Association Professional Standards Scheme, published in the South Australian Government Gazette No.</span><span> </span><span>15, 10</span><span> </span><span>March 2022</span></p><p class="notemargin"><span>Note:</span><span style="width:15.45pt; text-indent:0pt; display:inline-block"> </span><span>This Scheme was formerly the South Australian Bar Association Inc Professional Standards Scheme, published in the South Australian Government Gazette No.</span><span> </span><span>35, 30</span><span> </span><span>May 2017.</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext" style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid"><span>1</span><span> </span><span>July 2022</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.7%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>19</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The Institute of Public Accountants Professional Standards Scheme, published in the Victoria Government Gazette No. S 598, 27</span><span> </span><span>October 2021</span></p><p class="notemargin"><span>Note:</span><span style="width:15.45pt; text-indent:0pt; display:inline-block"> </span><span>This Scheme was formerly the Institute of Public Accountants Professional Standards Scheme, published in the Victoria Government Gazette No. G 42, 18</span><span> </span><span>October 2018, including as modified by the extension published in the Victoria Government Gazette No. S 695, 24</span><span> </span><span>December 2020.</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>22</span><span> </span><span>March 2022</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.7%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>20</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The Association of Consulting Surveyors National Professional Standards Scheme, published in the New South Wales Government Gazette No.</span><span> </span><span>90, 1</span><span> </span><span>May 2020, including as modified by the extension published in the New South Wales Government Gazette No. 100, 14</span><span> </span><span>March 2025</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The Scheme—1</span><span> </span><span>July 2020</span></p><p class="Tabletext" style="page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid"><span>The extension—1</span><span> </span><span>July 2025</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.7%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>21</span></p></td><td style="width:57.4%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The Australian Property Institute Valuers Limited Professional Standards Scheme, published in the New South Wales Government Gazette No. 214, 21</span><span> </span><span>May 2021</span></p></td><td style="width:33.9%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tablea"><span>1</span><span> </span><span>September 2021</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
3B
Deferred sales for add‑on insurance products—when consumer enters into a commitment
3B Deferred sales for add‑on insurance products—when consumer enters into a commitment
(1) For the purposes of subsection 12DO(3) of the Act, a consumer is taken to have entered into a commitment to acquire a product or service of a class specified in column 1 of the following table at the time specified in column 2.
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-left:0.25pt; border-collapse:collapse"><thead><tr><td colspan="3" style="width:404.8pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Deferred sales for add</span><span>‑</span><span>on insurance products—when consumer enters into a commitment</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:21.85pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span></span></p><p class="TableHeading"><span>Item</span></p></td><td style="width:154.75pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Column 1</span></p><p class="TableHeading"><span>Class of product or service</span></p></td><td style="width:206.6pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Column 2</span></p><p class="TableHeading"><span>Time of entering into commitment</span></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="width:21.85pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>1</span></p></td><td style="width:154.75pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>A credit card</span></p></td><td style="width:206.6pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The time at which the consumer is informed in writing of the approval of the credit facility</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:21.85pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>2</span></p></td><td style="width:154.75pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>A loan secured by a mortgage, charge or other security interest over residential property in Australia</span></p></td><td style="width:206.6pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The time at which the consumer is informed in writing of the approval of the credit facility</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:21.85pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>3</span></p></td><td style="width:154.75pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>A loan for the purchase of a motor vehicle</span></p></td><td style="width:206.6pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The time at which the consumer is informed in writing of the approval of the credit facility</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:21.85pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>4</span></p></td><td style="width:154.75pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>A loan for personal, domestic or household purposes</span></p></td><td style="width:206.6pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The time at which the consumer is informed in writing of the approval of the credit facility</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:21.85pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>5</span></p></td><td style="width:154.75pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The hire of a motor vehicle</span></p></td><td style="width:206.6pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Either:</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(a) if the consumer makes a reservation for the hire of the vehicle before taking possession of the vehicle—the time at which the consumer makes the reservation; or</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(b) otherwise—the time at which the consumer takes possession of the vehicle</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
(2) In this regulation:
motor vehicle means a motor‑powered road vehicle (including a 4‑wheel‑drive vehicle).
3
Prescribed agencies (Act s 18(2)(d))
3 Prescribed agencies (Act s 18(2)(d))
For paragraph 18(2)(d) of the Act, each of the following agencies is prescribed:
(a) the Clean Energy Regulator;
(aa) the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission;
(b) the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority;
(c) the Australian Taxation Office;
(d) the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre;
(e) an authority of a State or Territory having functions and powers similar to those of the Director of Public Prosecutions;
(f) the police force or service of each State and the Northern Territory;
(g) the Department of Fair Trading of New South Wales;
(h) the Office of Fair Trading and Business Affairs of Victoria;
(i) the Office of Consumer Affairs of Queensland;
(j) the Department of Consumer and Employment Protection of Western Australia;
(k) the Office of Consumer and Business Affairs of South Australia;
(l) the Office of Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading of Tasmania;
(m) the Consumer Affairs Bureau of the Australian Capital Territory;
(n) the Fair Trading Group of the Northern Territory.
4
Form of notice requiring assistance and appearance for examination
4 Form of notice requiring assistance and appearance for examination
For subsection 19(2) of the Act, Form 1 is prescribed.
5
Notice to produce books
5 Notice to produce books
A notice under section 30, subsection 31(1) or section 32A or 33 of the Act to produce books must be in accordance with Form 2.
6
Evidence of authority
6 Evidence of authority
If:
(a) a member or staff member produces a document issued by the Commission; and
(b) the document states that the person is authorised by the Commission under section 34 of the Act;
the document is evidence of:
(c) the authority of the person to require other persons to produce books under subsection 34(2) of the Act; and
(d) any limitation on that authority that is specified in the document under that subsection.
7
Summons to witnesses to appear before Commission
7 Summons to witnesses to appear before Commission
For subsection 58(1) of the Act, Form 3 is prescribed.
8
Allowances and expenses payable to examinees and witnesses
8 Allowances and expenses payable to examinees and witnesses
For subsections 89(1) and (2) of the Act, a person who appears:
(a) for examination under section 19 of the Act; or
(b) in accordance with a summons issued under section 58 of the Act;
is entitled to be paid allowances and expenses in accordance with Schedule 2.
8AAAA
Delegation
8AAAA Delegation
For the purposes of paragraph 102(2)(c) of the Act, a person is prescribed in relation to a delegation of a function or power if the person is:
(a) a Registrar appointed under the Commonwealth Registers Act 2020; or
(b) a person approved by a Registrar referred to in paragraph (a), and to whom that Registrar may delegate any of its other functions, as a Commonwealth body, under a law of the Commonwealth; or
(c) a Registrar appointed under the Corporations Act 2001; or
(d) a person approved by a Registrar referred to in paragraph (c), and to whom that Registrar may delegate any of its other functions, as a Commonwealth body, under a law of the Commonwealth; or
(e) a Registrar appointed under the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009; or
(f) a person approved by a Registrar referred to in paragraph (e), and to whom that Registrar may delegate any of its other functions, as a Commonwealth body, under a law of the Commonwealth.
8AA
Prescribed professional disciplinary and other bodies
8AA Prescribed professional disciplinary and other bodies
(1) For the purposes of subparagraph 127(4)(d)(i) of the Act, the following professional disciplinary bodies are prescribed:
(a) the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association;
(b) CPA Australia;
(c) Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand;
(d) the Institute of Public Accountants;
(e) the New South Wales Bar Association;
(f) the Law Society of New South Wales;
(g) the Victorian Legal Services Commissioner;
(h) the Victorian Legal Services Board;
(i) the Bar Association of Queensland;
(j) the Queensland Law Society;
(k) the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia;
(l) the Law Society of South Australia;
(m) the Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner of South Australia;
(n) the Law Society of Tasmania;
(o) the Law Society of the Australian Capital Territory;
(p) the Law Society Northern Territory.
(2) For the purposes of subparagraph 127(4)(d)(ii) of the Act, the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association is prescribed in relation to performing a disciplinary function in relation to a member of the Association.
8AB
Commission may disclose confidential information to certain bodies corporate
8AB Commission may disclose confidential information to certain bodies corporate
The bodies corporate listed in Schedule 3 are specified for subsection 127(4C) of the Act.
8AC
Commission may disclose confidential information to specified bodies or entities
8AC Commission may disclose confidential information to specified bodies or entities
For the purposes of subsection 127(5A) of the Act, the disclosure of information to a body or entity specified in column 1 of an item of the following table is an authorised use and disclosure of the information. However, if a purpose is specified in column 2 of that item, only a disclosure for that purpose is an authorised use and disclosure.
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-left:0.25pt; border-collapse:collapse"><thead><tr><td colspan="3" style="width:404.8pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Specified body or entity</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:24.9pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Item</span></p></td><td style="width:179.15pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Column 1</span></p><p class="TableHeading"><span>Body or Entity</span></p></td><td style="width:179.15pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Column 2</span></p><p class="TableHeading"><span>Purpose</span></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="width:24.9pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>1</span></p></td><td style="width:179.15pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>An entity that:</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(a) holds an office in, is employed in, or is performing services for, an agency or body in the Fraud Fusion Taskforce; and</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(b) performs duties relating to a purpose of the Fraud Fusion Taskforce</span></p></td><td style="width:179.15pt; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>A purpose of the Fraud Fusion Taskforce</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
8AAA
Annual reports
8AAA Annual reports
(1) For subsection 136(2A) of the Act, a report under subsection 136(1) of the Act for a financial year (the report year) must include the following information:
(a) the number of times in the report year that ASIC used an information gathering power prescribed in subregulation (2) (a prescribed power);
(b) for a particular use of a prescribed power in the report year—the provision of the Act, or another law, which conferred the prescribed power;
(c) the number of times in the financial year before the report year that ASIC used an information gathering power that was a prescribed power for this regulation at the time the power was used.
(2) For subsection 136(2A) of the Act, each information gathering power set out in a provision of an Act mentioned in the following table is prescribed.
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%; border-collapse:collapse"><thead><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Information gathering powers</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Item</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Provisions in which powers appear</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading"><span>General description of provision (for information only)</span></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>1</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Subsection</span><span> </span><span>12GY(2) of the Act</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to substantiation of a claim</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>2</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>19 of the Act</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to requiring a person to attend for examination</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>3</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>30 of the Act</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to the production of books</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>4</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>30A of the Act</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to requesting information</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>4A</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>30B of the Act</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to requesting information and books</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>5</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>31 of the Act</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to the production of books</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>6</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>32A of the Act</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to the production of books</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>7</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>33 of the Act</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to the production of books</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>8</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Subsection</span><span> </span><span>49(3) of the Act</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to requiring a person to give assistance</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>9</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>58 of the Act</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to:</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(a) summonsing a witness; and</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(b) taking evidence</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>10</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>601FF of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Corporations Act 2001</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to conducting surveillance on, or monitoring, a managed investment scheme</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>11</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>601HD of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Corporations Act 2001</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to a request for information</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>12</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>672A of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Corporations Act 2001</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to requiring the disclosure of interests</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>13</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>672B of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Corporations Act 2001</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to requiring the disclosure of interests</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>14</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>792D of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Corporations Act 2001</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to requiring a person to give assistance</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>15</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>912C of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Corporations Act 2001</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to requiring a person to give assistance</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>16</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>912E of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Corporations Act 2001</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to:</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(a) requiring a person to give assistance; and</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(b) requiring the disclosure of documents and information</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>16A</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>1213P of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Corporations Act 2001</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to requiring a notified foreign passport fund to lodge a copy of the register of members</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>16B</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>1226C of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Corporations Act 2001</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to a request for information</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>17</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>1317R of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Corporations Act 2001</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to requiring a person to give assistance</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>18</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>3E of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Crimes Act 1914</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to search warrants</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>19</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Subsection</span><span> </span><span>10(2) of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Mutual Assistance in Business Regulation Act 1992</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to:</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(a) requiring a person to give information; and</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(b) requiring a person to give documents; and</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span></span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span></span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tablea"><span>(c) requiring a person to attend to give evidence and produce documents</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext" style="page-break-after:avoid"><span>20</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext" style="page-break-after:avoid"><span>Subsection</span><span> </span><span>37(4) of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to requesting information</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>21</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Subsection</span><span> </span><span>49(1) of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to requesting information</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>22</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>51 of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to requiring a person to give assistance</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>23</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>253 of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to requiring a person to give assistance</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>24</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>266 of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to the production of books</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>25</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>267 of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to the production of books</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:10.08%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>26</span></p></td><td style="width:43.88%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Item</span><span> </span><span>17 of Schedule</span><span> </span><span>2 to the </span><span style="font-style:italic">National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</span></p></td><td style="width:46.04%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Powers relating to requesting information</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
11
Summons to witnesses to appear before Disciplinary Board
11 Summons to witnesses to appear before Disciplinary Board
If a person is summoned under subsection 217(1) of the Act, the summons must be in accordance with Form 3.
12
Allowances and expenses payable for attendance at hearings of Disciplinary Board
12 Allowances and expenses payable for attendance at hearings of Disciplinary Board
For subsection 218(4) of the Act, a person who attends at a hearing in accordance with a summons issued under subsection 217(1) of the Act is entitled to be paid allowances and expenses in accordance with Schedule 2.
Part 2A
Deferred sales model exemptions
Part 2A—Deferred sales model exemptions
12A
Definitions
12A Definitions
In this Part:
add‑on comprehensive motor vehicle or vessel insurance product has the meaning given by regulation 12C.
add‑on compulsory third party motor vehicle insurance product has the meaning given by regulation 12D.
add‑on home and contents insurance product has the meaning given by regulation 12E.
add‑on home building insurance product has the meaning given by regulation 12F.
add‑on landlord insurance product has the meaning given by regulation 12G.
add‑on limited motor vehicle or vessel insurance product has the meaning given by regulation 12H.
add‑on transport and delivery insurance product has the meaning given by regulation 12J.
add‑on travel insurance product has the meaning given by regulation 12K.
building includes a caravan.
business‑related add‑on insurance product has the meaning given by regulation 12L.
designated contents means any of the following:
(a) furniture, furnishings and carpets (whether fixed or unfixed);
(b) household goods;
(c) clothing and other personal effects;
(d) pictures;
(e) works of art;
(f) furs;
(g) pieces of jewellery;
(h) gold or silver articles;
(i) documents of any kind;
(j) collections of any kind.
designated vehicle or vessel means:
(a) a motor vehicle; or
(b) a vessel within the meaning of the Navigation Act 2012.
motor vehicle has the meaning given by subsection 12BA(1) of the Act.
superannuation‑related add‑on insurance product has the meaning given by regulation 12M.
12B
Deferred sales model exemptions
12B Deferred sales model exemptions
(1) For the purposes of subsection 12DX(1) of the Act, the following classes of add‑on insurance products are exempted from sections 12DQ, 12DR and 12DS of the Act:
(a) add‑on comprehensive motor vehicle or vessel insurance products;
(b) add‑on compulsory third party motor vehicle insurance products;
(c) add‑on home and contents insurance products;
(d) add‑on home building insurance products;
(e) add‑on landlord insurance products;
(f) add‑on limited motor vehicle or vessel insurance products;
(g) add‑on transport and delivery insurance products;
(h) add‑on travel insurance products;
(i) business‑related add‑on insurance products;
(j) superannuation‑related add‑on insurance products.
(2) This regulation does not apply to an add‑on insurance product that relates to a principal product or service (within the meaning of section 12DO of the Act) if:
(a) a person enters into a commitment to acquire the principal product or service after the end of the period of 5 years beginning on the day this regulation commences; or
(b) a person acquires the principal product or service after the end of that period without previously having entered into such a commitment.
12C
Meaning of add‑on comprehensive motor vehicle or vessel insurance product
12C Meaning of add‑on comprehensive motor vehicle or vessel insurance product
An add‑on comprehensive motor vehicle or vessel insurance product is an add‑on insurance product that provides insurance cover (whether or not the cover is restricted):
(a) to a consumer who:
(i) wholly or partly owns a designated vehicle or vessel; or
(ii) has the use of a designated vehicle or vessel under a lease of at least 4 months’ duration; and
(b) in respect of all of the following (whether or not the product also provides insurance cover in respect of other matters):
(i) loss of, or damage to, the designated vehicle or vessel resulting from an accident;
(ii) loss of, or damage to, property of another person resulting from an accident in which the designated vehicle or vessel is involved;
(iii) loss of, or damage to, the designated vehicle or vessel caused by fire, theft or malicious acts;
but does not include an add‑on insurance product that is covered by section 12DW of the Act (about comprehensive motor vehicle insurance).
12D
Meaning of add‑on compulsory third party motor vehicle insurance product
12D Meaning of add‑on compulsory third party motor vehicle insurance product
An add‑on compulsory third party motor vehicle insurance product is an add‑on insurance product that provides insurance cover (whether or not the cover is restricted) in respect of the death of a person, or for the injury to a person, arising out of the use of a motor vehicle.
12E
Meaning of add‑on home and contents insurance product
12E Meaning of add‑on home and contents insurance product
(1) Subject to subregulation (3), an add‑on home and contents insurance product is an add‑on insurance product that provides insurance cover (whether or not the cover is restricted) in respect of the destruction of, or damage to:
(a) a building used, or intended to be used, principally and primarily as a place of residence (other than a building of a kind specified in subregulation (2)); and
(b) any of the following things on the site specified in the add‑on insurance product as the site on which the building is situated (the relevant site):
(i) out‑buildings, fixtures or structural improvements used for purposes related to the use of the building;
(ii) fixed wall coverings, fixed ceiling coverings or fixed floor coverings (other than carpets);
(iii) services (whether underground or not) that are the property of a person insured under the add‑on insurance product or that, under the add‑on insurance product, the insured person is liable to repair or replace or pay the cost of repairing or replacing;
(iv) fences and gates wholly or partly on the relevant site; and
(c) the designated contents of the building and any out‑building covered by subparagraph (b)(i).
(2) The following kinds of building are specified for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a):
(a) a hotel;
(b) a motel;
(c) a boarding house;
(d) a building that:
(i) is in the course of construction; and
(ii) is being constructed by a person insured, or to be insured, under the add‑on insurance product in the course of a construction business;
(e) a temporary building or structure or a demountable or moveable structure.
(3) An add‑on insurance product is not an add‑on home and contents insurance product if the product is entered into, or proposed to be entered into, for the purposes of a law (including a law of a State or Territory) that relates to building or construction work.
12F
Meaning of add‑on home building insurance product
12F Meaning of add‑on home building insurance product
(1) Subject to subregulation (3), an add‑on home building insurance product is an add‑on insurance product that provides insurance cover (whether or not the cover is restricted) in respect of the destruction of, or damage to:
(a) a building used, or intended to be used, principally and primarily as a place of residence (other than a building of a kind specified in subregulation (2)); and
(b) any of the following things on the site specified in the add‑on insurance product as the site on which the building is situated (the relevant site):
(i) out‑buildings, fixtures or structural improvements used for purposes related to the use of the building;
(ii) fixed wall coverings, fixed ceiling coverings or fixed floor coverings (other than carpets);
(iii) services (whether underground or not) that are the property of a person insured under the add‑on insurance product or that, under the add‑on insurance product, the insured person is liable to repair or replace or pay the cost of repairing or replacing;
(iv) fences and gates wholly or partly on the relevant site.
(2) The following kinds of building are specified for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a):
(a) a hotel;
(b) a motel;
(c) a boarding house;
(d) a building that:
(i) is in the course of construction; and
(ii) is being constructed by a person insured, or to be insured, under the add‑on insurance product in the course of a construction business;
(e) a temporary building or structure or a demountable or moveable structure.
(3) An add‑on insurance product is not an add‑on home building insurance product if the product is entered into, or proposed to be entered into, for the purposes of a law (including a law of a State or Territory) that relates to building or construction work.
12G
Meaning of add‑on landlord insurance product
12G Meaning of add‑on landlord insurance product
An add‑on landlord insurance product is an add‑on insurance product that:
(a) provides insurance cover to the insured person (whether or not the cover is restricted) in respect of:
(i) loss of, or damage to, real property leased by the insured person to another person; or
(ii) financial loss, including loss of rental income, relating to a lease of real property by the insured person to another person; and
(b) is commonly regarded as landlord insurance.
12H
Meaning of add‑on limited motor vehicle or vessel insurance product
12H Meaning of add‑on limited motor vehicle or vessel insurance product
An add‑on limited motor vehicle or vessel insurance product is an add‑on insurance product that provides insurance cover (whether or not the cover is restricted or the product also provides insurance cover in respect of other matters):
(a) to a consumer who:
(i) wholly or partly owns a designated vehicle or vessel; or
(ii) has the use of a designated vehicle or vessel under a lease of at least 4 months’ duration; and
(b) in respect of either or both of the following:
(i) loss of, or damage to, property of another person resulting from an accident in which the designated vehicle or vessel is involved;
(ii) loss of, or damage to, the designated vehicle or vessel caused by fire or theft.
12J
Meaning of add‑on transport and delivery insurance product
12J Meaning of add‑on transport and delivery insurance product
An add‑on transport and delivery insurance product is an add‑on insurance product that provides insurance cover (whether or not the cover is restricted) in respect of the loss of, or damage to, any matter or thing in the course of:
(a) the transport or delivery of the matter or thing; and
(b) any storage of the matter or thing that is incidental to its transport or delivery.
12K
Meaning of add‑on travel insurance product
12K Meaning of add‑on travel insurance product
An add‑on travel insurance product is an add‑on insurance product that provides insurance cover (whether or not the cover is restricted) in respect of any of the following:
(a) transport or accommodation costs relating to a specified journey if the insured person does not start or complete the journey;
(b) loss or damage to personal belongings while the insured person is on a specified journey;
(c) a sickness or disease contracted, or injury sustained, by the insured person on a specified journey;
(d) loss, damage or compensation for an event affecting the insured person on a specified journey that ordinarily forms a part of insurance commonly regarded as travel insurance, including loss of cash or credit cards, legal liability, hijack, kidnap or ransom.
12L
Meaning of business‑related add‑on insurance product
12L Meaning of business‑related add‑on insurance product
An add‑on insurance product is a business‑related add‑on insurance product if:
(a) the add‑on insurance product is offered or sold to a consumer in connection with the consumer acquiring, or entering into a commitment to acquire, another product or service in the course of carrying on a business; and
(b) the price of the add‑on insurance product exceeds $1,000.
12M
Meaning of superannuation‑related add‑on insurance product
12M Meaning of superannuation‑related add‑on insurance product
A superannuation‑related add‑on insurance product is an add‑on insurance product that:
(a) is offered or sold to a consumer in connection with the consumer acquiring, or entering into a commitment to acquire, another product or service in a registrable superannuation entity; and
(b) provides insurance cover (whether or not the cover is restricted) in respect of one or more of the following:
(i) the consumer’s death;
(ii) the consumer’s total and permanent disability;
(iii) loss of income by the consumer.
Part 2B
Financial Services and Credit Panels
Part 2B—Financial Services and Credit Panels
12N
Circumstances in which ASIC must convene a Financial Services and Credit Panel
12N Circumstances in which ASIC must convene a Financial Services and Credit Panel
(1) For the purposes of subsection 139(2) of the Act, ASIC must convene a Financial Services and Credit Panel to perform functions or exercise powers under the corporations legislation in relation to a relevant provider if:
(a) a circumstance specified in subregulation (2) applies in relation to the relevant provider; and
(b) ASIC has not exercised, and does not propose to exercise, any of its powers under the corporations legislation against the relevant provider in relation to the circumstance.
(2) The following circumstances are specified for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a):
(a) the relevant provider becomes an insolvent under administration and ASIC is aware of the insolvency;
(b) the relevant provider is convicted of fraud and ASIC is aware of the conviction;
(c) ASIC reasonably believes that the relevant provider is not a fit and proper person to provide personal advice to retail clients in relation to relevant financial products, having regard to:
(i) the matters specified in paragraphs 921U(a) to (k) of the Corporations Act (subject to Part VIIC of the Crimes Act 1914); and
(ii) any other matter ASIC considers relevant;
(d) ASIC reasonably believes that the relevant provider has contravened:
(i) subsection 921BA(1), (2) or (3) of the Corporations Act (relevant providers to meet education and training standards); or
(ii) subsection 921F(4) of the Corporations Act (about the provision of a Statement of Advice by a provisional relevant provider to a retail client); or
(iii) section 921Y of the Corporations Act (unregistered relevant providers not to provide personal advice);
(e) ASIC reasonably believes that:
(i) the relevant provider has contravened a financial services law (including a restricted civil penalty provision); and
(ii) the contravention is serious;
(f) both of the following apply:
(i) the relevant provider has been involved in the contravention of a financial services law (including a restricted civil penalty provision) by another person;
(ii) ASIC reasonably believes that the contravention is serious;
(g) subregulation (3) applies to the relevant provider.
Note: Subsection 921E(3) of the Corporations Act (relevant providers to comply with the Code of Ethics) is a financial services law.
(3) This subregulation applies to the relevant provider if:
(a) the relevant provider has, at least twice, been linked to a refusal or failure to give effect to a determination made by AFCA relating to a complaint that relates to:
(i) a financial services business; or
(ii) credit activities (within the meaning of the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009); and
(b) ASIC reasonably believes that the refusal or failure:
(i) has resulted, or is likely to result, in material loss or damage to a client of the relevant provider; or
(ii) has resulted, or is likely to result, in a material benefit to the relevant provider; or
(iii) involves dishonesty or fraud.
Note: To work out whether a relevant provider has been linked as described in paragraph (a), see section 910C of the Corporations Act.
(4) A contravention is serious for the purposes of subparagraph (2)(e)(ii) or (f)(ii) if it:
(a) has resulted, or is likely to result, in material loss or damage to a client of the relevant provider; or
(b) has resulted, or is likely to result, in a material benefit to the relevant provider; or
(c) involves dishonesty or fraud.
12P
Allowances and expenses payable for attendance at hearings of a Financial Services and Credit Panel
12P Allowances and expenses payable for attendance at hearings of a Financial Services and Credit Panel
For the purposes of section 166 of the Act, a person who appears at a hearing of a Financial Services and Credit Panel in accordance with a summons issued under subsection 165(1) of the Act is entitled to be paid allowances and expenses in accordance with Schedule 2.
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Part 1 Preliminary
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name of Regulations
1 Name of Regulations
These Regulations are the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Regulations 2001.
2 Definitions
2 Definitions
Note: A number of expressions used in these Regulations are defined in the Act or Part 1.2 (Interpretation) of the Corporations Act 2001: see subsection 5(2) of the Act.
In these Regulations:
Act means the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001.
Australian carbon credit unit has the same meaning as in the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011.
carbon unit has the same meaning as in the Clean Energy Act 2011.
eligible international emissions unit has the same meaning as in the Australian National Registry of Emissions Units Act 2011.
Form means a form set out in Schedule 1.
2A Territorial application of Act
2A Territorial application of Act
(1) For subsection 4(2) of the Act, the Act applies in each external Territory in accordance with this regulation.
(2) For the Territory of Christmas Island and the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands:
(a) Division 2 of Part 2 of the Act applies in relation to:
(i) a financial product; and
(ii) a financial service; and
(b) the remainder of the Act applies in relation to:
(i) a superannuation product; and
(ii) an RSA; and
(iii) a financial service that relates to a superannuation product; and
(iv) a financial service that relates to an RSA.
(3) For an external Territory other than the Territory of Christmas Island and the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Act applies in relation to:
(a) a superannuation product; and
(b) an RSA; and
(c) a financial service that relates to a superannuation product; and
(d) a financial service that relates to an RSA.
2AC Professional accounting bodies
2AC Professional accounting bodies
For the definition of professional accounting body in subsection 5(1) of the Act, the following bodies are prescribed:
(a) CPA Australia;
(b) The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia;
(c) Institute of Public Accountants.
2B Financial products: credit facility
2B Financial products: credit facility
Main concepts
The Regulations rely on a number of central concepts that underpin the Act's regulatory architecture. The concept of a financial product is elaborately defined through several provisions. Regulation 2B prescribes a wide range of credit facilities as financial products, including the provision of credit for any period, bill facilities, pawnbroker credit, employer-to-employee credit, mortgages, guarantees, and non-cash payment facilities that are debited to a credit facility. The definition of credit itself is expansive, covering any contract, arrangement or understanding under which payment of a debt is deferred or a deferred debt is incurred, and includes hire purchase agreements, credit cards, charge cards, redeemable preference shares, letters of credit, and leases of real or personal property. Significantly, consumer credit insurance that includes a contract of general insurance under the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 is expressly excluded from being a credit facility under regulation 2B(2). Regulation 2BA declares margin lending facilities to be financial products. Conversely, the Regulations also specify what are not financial products: the MasterCard, VISA, Visa Debit, ATM, EFTPOS, Debit MasterCard, MasterCard Prepaid, and Visa Prepaid payment systems are all excluded (regulation 2BAA). Australian carbon credit units and eligible international emissions units were initially not financial products under regulation 2BB, but on 1 July 2012 they became financial products. Tradeable water rights and certain physical-settlement-only forward arrangements involving water rights are also excluded from the financial product definition (regulation 2BC), as are guarantees issued by the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation in the performance of its function under paragraph 8(1)(ca) of the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation Act 2018 (regulation 2BD).
The concept of a financial service is extended by regulation 2C to include making an unsolicited off-market offer to purchase a financial product from a person who acquired it as a retail client. Traditional trustee company services are addressed through regulation 2D, which prescribes who is taken to be provided such services for the purposes of Division 2 of Part 2 of the Act. The concept of acquiring financial services as a consumer is given a monetary threshold of $100,000 by regulation 2DA, meaning that a person who acquires financial services for an amount not exceeding $100,000 is taken to have acquired them as a consumer for the purposes of paragraph 12BC(3)(a) of the Act. The Regulations also create an important concept in the area of false billing: a statement that asserts a right to payment must include the text "This is not a bill. You are not required to pay any money." as the most prominent text in the document (regulations 2E and 2F). The same requirement applies to warning statements under paragraphs 12DM(1AA)(b) and 12DMB(2)(b) of the Act.
Who it affects
The Regulations affect a broad range of persons and entities. The compulsory information-gathering powers and the forms prescribed for their exercise affect anyone who is the subject of an ASIC investigation or examination, including directors, officers, employees, and advisers of corporations, as well as any person who may have information relevant to an investigation. The prescribed agencies listed in regulation 3 that can receive confidential information from ASIC include the Clean Energy Regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, the Australian Taxation Office, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, state and territory Directors of Public Prosecutions, all state and territory police forces, and numerous state and territory fair trading and consumer affairs offices. The professional accounting bodies prescribed in regulation 2AC (CPA Australia, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, and the Institute of Public Accountants) affect all members of those bodies, as do the prescribed professional disciplinary bodies listed in regulation 8AA, which include the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association, CPA Australia, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, the Institute of Public Accountants, the New South Wales Bar Association, the Law Society of New South Wales, the Victorian Legal Services Commissioner and Board, the Bar Association of Queensland, the Queensland Law Society, the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia, the Law Society of South Australia, the Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner of South Australia, the Law Society of Tasmania, the Law Society of the Australian Capital Territory, and the Law Society Northern Territory. The prescribed professional standards schemes (regulation 3A) affect members of the legal, accounting, and surveying professions who are covered by those schemes, as they limit the civil liability of those members. The deferred sales model exemptions in Part 2A affect insurers and consumers who purchase add-on insurance products in connection with credit cards, motor vehicle loans, residential mortgages, personal loans, and motor vehicle hire. The add-on insurance products affected include comprehensive motor vehicle or vessel insurance, compulsory third party motor vehicle insurance, home and contents insurance, home building insurance, landlord insurance, limited motor vehicle or vessel insurance, transport and delivery insurance, travel insurance, business-related add-on insurance (where the price exceeds $1,000), and superannuation-related add-on insurance. The Takeovers Panel procedures in Part 3 affect parties to takeovers and their advisers, including companies, directors, shareholders, and bidders. The Financial Services and Credit Panel provisions in Part 2B affect relevant providers who are subject to the disciplinary and supervisory functions of those panels. The clearing and settlement facility provisions in Part 5 affect market operators such as National Stock Exchange of Australia Limited and Bendigo Stock Exchange Limited, and their participants and agents.
Key duties and rights
The Regulations impose several key duties and confer corresponding rights. A person who receives a notice under section 19 of the Act requiring them to attend an examination must comply by appearing at the specified time and place and giving all reasonable assistance in connection with the investigation (Form 1). A person who receives a notice to produce books under section 30, subsection 31(1), or section 32A or 33 of the Act must produce the specified books at the time and place stated (Form 2). However, a person who is required to submit to an examination has the right to have their lawyer attend the examination, and the lawyer may address the inspector or ask the person questions about matters raised with the person by the inspector (subsection 23(1) of the Act, as noted on Form 1). A person who is summoned as a witness before the Commission, the Takeovers Panel, the Companies Auditors Disciplinary Board, or a Financial Services and Credit Panel must attend and, where specified, produce documents (Form 3). Such a person is entitled to be paid allowances and expenses in accordance with Schedule 2. The Schedule provides that a witness with professional, scientific or other special skill or knowledge must be paid an amount equal to lost wages, salary or fees, or if not remunerated in that way, between $81 and $407 per day. Other witnesses must be paid lost wages, salary or fees, or between $46 and $76 per day, plus reasonable transport costs and, if required to be absent overnight, meals and accommodation.
The Regulations also impose duties on ASIC. Under regulation 12N, ASIC must convene a Financial Services and Credit Panel in specified circumstances relating to a relevant provider, including if the provider becomes an insolvent under administration and ASIC is aware of the insolvency, if the provider is convicted of fraud, if ASIC reasonably believes the provider is not a fit and proper person to provide personal advice to retail clients, if ASIC reasonably believes the provider has contravened specified education and training standards or the prohibition on unregistered providers giving personal advice, if the provider has committed a serious contravention of a financial services law, or if the provider has been linked at least twice to a refusal or failure to give effect to an AFCA determination that has resulted or is likely to result in material loss or damage, material benefit, or involves dishonesty or fraud. A contravention is serious for these purposes if it has resulted or is likely to result in material loss or damage to a client, material benefit to the provider, or involves dishonesty or fraud. Annual reports of ASIC under subsection 136(1) of the Act must include information about the number of times ASIC used prescribed information gathering powers in the report year and the previous financial year, and for each use, the provision of the Act or other law that conferred the power (regulation 8AAA). The prescribed information gathering powers are extensive and include powers under the Act itself (sections 19, 30, 30A, 30B, 31, 32A, 33, 49, 58), the Corporations Act 2001 (sections 601FF, 601HD, 672A, 672B, 792D, 912C, 912E, 1213P, 1226C, 1317R), the Crimes Act 1914 (section 3E), the Mutual Assistance in Business Regulation Act 1992 (subsection 10(2)), and the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (subsections 37(4), 49(1), sections 51, 253, 266, 267, and item 17 of Schedule 2).
Penalties and enforcement
While the Regulations themselves do not create many penalty provisions, they are integral to the enforcement framework of the Act. A person who fails to comply with a notice under section 19 of the Act to attend an examination and give assistance, or a notice to produce books, without reasonable excuse commits an offence under section 63 of the Act. It is not a reasonable excuse that giving information or producing a book might tend to incriminate the person or expose them to a penalty (subsection 68(1) of the Act), although an individual who makes a claim of self-incrimination before making an oral statement or signing a record is protected by a use immunity: the statement or the fact of signing is not admissible in criminal or penalty proceedings against that person other than for falsity (subsection 68(2) of the Act). A body corporate is not entitled to this protection (subsection 68(3) of the Act). A witness who fails to attend in response to a summons under section 58 or 192 of the Act, or who refuses to be sworn or answer questions, may be dealt with for contempt. The annual reporting requirement in regulation 8AAA is a transparency mechanism: ASIC must disclose how often it used each prescribed information gathering power in the relevant financial year, which allows public scrutiny of the regulator's enforcement activity. The professional standards schemes prescribed in regulation 3A operate to limit the civil liability of members of the relevant professions, but they do not affect criminal liability or liability for conduct that involves dishonesty, fraud, or certain other excluded conduct. The deferred sales model exemptions in Part 2A have a time-limited effect: regulation 12B(2) provides that the exemptions do not apply to an add-on insurance product relating to a principal product or service if a person enters into a commitment to acquire the principal product or service after the end of the period of five years beginning on the day the regulation commences, or acquires the principal product or service after that period without previously having entered into such a commitment. This sun-setting mechanism will cause the exemptions to expire after five years, bringing those add-on insurance products back within the deferred sales model unless further regulatory action is taken.
How it interacts with other laws
The Regulations operate at the intersection of several Commonwealth Acts. They are made under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 and give effect to numerous provisions of that Act. They also interact extensively with the Corporations Act 2001: the definition provisions cross-reference Part 1.2 of that Act; the Takeovers Panel procedures in Part 3 relate to applications under sections 656A, 657C, and 657EA of the Corporations Act; the information gathering powers prescribed in regulation 8AAA include powers under the Corporations Act; and the clearing and settlement facility provisions in Part 5 relate to financial products defined in section 764A of the Corporations Act. The Regulations also interact with the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009: the delegation provisions in regulation 8AAAA cross-reference Registrars appointed under that Act, and the prescribed information gathering powers include numerous powers under that Act. The payment systems exclusions in regulation 2BAA refer to designations made under section 11 of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998, identifying specific systems such as MasterCard, VISA, Visa Debit, the ATM system, EFTPOS, Debit MasterCard, and various prepaid card systems as not being financial products. The water rights exclusion in regulation 2BC uses the definition of "tradeable water rights" from the Water Act 2007 and cross-references subsection 97(1) of that Act concerning transformation arrangements. The carbon unit exclusions in regulation 2BB refer to the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011, the Clean Energy Act 2011, and the Australian National Registry of Emissions Units Act 2011. The NHFIC guarantee exclusion in regulation 2BD cross-references the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation Act 2018. The Crimes Act 1914 is relevant to the information gathering powers prescribed in regulation 8AAA (section 3E concerning search warrants) and to the fit and proper person assessment in regulation 12N(2)(c), which is subject to Part VIIC of the Crimes Act (spent convictions). The Mutual Assistance in Business Regulation Act 1992 is also referenced in the prescribed information gathering powers. The Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988 is relevant to regulation 47, which provides that specified disclosure prohibitions in that Act do not prevent a cash dealer from communicating information to approved securities organisations or in accordance with ministerial conditions on exempt stock markets or futures markets. The Insurance Contracts Act 1984 is relevant to the exclusion of consumer credit insurance from the definition of credit facility in regulation 2B(2). The Commonwealth Registers Act 2020 is referenced in the delegation provision in regulation 8AAAA. The National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation Act 2018 is referenced in regulation 2BD.
Recent changes and why
The source text reflects several recent amendments. The table in regulation 3A prescribing professional standards schemes includes schemes that were published as recently as June 2025 (CPA Australia scheme) and March 2025 (Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand scheme, New South Wales Bar Association scheme, Victorian Bar scheme). These updates reflect the ongoing renewal of professional standards schemes that limit the civil liability of professionals, which are typically time-limited and require extension or replacement. The association of consulting surveyors scheme had its extension published in March 2025, taking effect on 1 July 2025. The inclusion of the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation guarantee exclusion in regulation 2BD reflects a policy decision to ensure that guarantees issued by that Corporation in the performance of its housing functions are not treated as financial products, which would otherwise trigger the licensing, disclosure, and conduct obligations under the Act. The Fraud Fusion Taskforce provisions in regulation 8AC and the transitional provision in regulation 49 (inserted in 2023) enable ASIC to share confidential information with entities that are part of that taskforce for its purposes, reflecting a policy response to the need for enhanced multi-agency cooperation in combating fraud. The annual reporting requirement in regulation 8AAA was introduced to increase transparency around ASIC's use of its extensive information gathering powers, responding to concerns about the scope of those powers and the need for accountability. The deferred sales model exemptions in Part 2A are time-limited (five years from commencement), reflecting a policy of providing a temporary exemption for certain add-on insurance products while maintaining the overall deferred sales framework designed to protect consumers from being sold inappropriate add-on insurance at the point of sale for a principal product.
Court challenges and controversies
The source text does not refer to any specific court challenges or controversies. However, several provisions are susceptible to legal challenge. The compulsory information gathering powers, particularly the exclusion of the privilege against self-incrimination for individuals (subject to the use immunity) and the complete exclusion of that privilege for bodies corporate, have historically been contentious. The breadth of the definition of "credit facility" in regulation 2B, which captures a very wide range of credit arrangements including employer loans, pawnbroker credit, leases, and letters of credit, has the potential to draw many arrangements within the regulatory perimeter that might not otherwise be thought of as financial products. The professional standards schemes in regulation 3A, which limit the civil liability of professionals, could be challenged on the basis that they effectively cap liability without a clear statutory mandate. The discretionary nature of many of the Takeovers Panel's powers under Part 3 (including the power to disregard submissions that are not in accordance with the regulations or that are frivolous or vexatious, and the power to continue proceedings without regard to late documents) could give rise to judicial review proceedings if a party considers that procedural fairness has not been observed. The definition of "serious" contravention for the purposes of the mandatory convening of a Financial Services and Credit Panel (regulation 12N(4)), which includes conduct that has resulted or is likely to result in material loss or damage, material benefit, or involves dishonesty or fraud, may be the subject of interpretive disputes.
Gotchas
Several provisions in the Regulations contain traps for the unwary. The definition of "credit" in regulation 2B(3) is extraordinarily broad: it includes not only traditional loans but also hire purchase agreements, leases of goods (unless full payment is made before or when the goods are provided and a deposit at least equal to the value of the goods is paid), credit cards, charge cards, redeemable preference shares, financial benefits from loans or assistance in obtaining them, promissory notes, negotiable instruments, leases of real or personal property, and letters of credit. Any arrangement that falls within this definition will be a credit facility and therefore a financial product, unless an exclusion applies. The exclusion for consumer credit insurance in regulation 2B(2) only applies if the insurance includes a contract of general insurance under the Insurance Contracts Act 1984; other types of insurance sold with credit may still be credit facilities. The payment systems exclusions in regulation 2BAA are specific to the named systems as designated on particular dates; a payment system that is not one of those specifically listed, or that has not been designated under the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998, may still be a financial product. The tradeable water rights exclusion in regulation 2BC applies only to arrangements that do not permit cash settlement or set-off and where market practice does not allow the seller's obligations to be closed out by matching offsetting positions; if an arrangement permits cash settlement, it will be a financial product. The NHFIC guarantee exclusion in regulation 2BD applies only to guarantees issued in the performance of the Corporation's function under paragraph 8(1)(ca) of the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation Act 2018; other NHFIC guarantees may be financial products. The warning statement requirements in regulations 2E and 2F require the text "This is not a bill. You are not required to pay any money." to be the most prominent text in the document; burying this text in fine print or in a less prominent location will not satisfy the requirement. The professional standards schemes in regulation 3A are limited to the schemes listed; a professional who is a member of a body that has a scheme but who carries on practice in a jurisdiction not covered by the scheme may not be protected. The annual reporting requirement in regulation 8AAA applies only to the prescribed information gathering powers listed in the table; if ASIC uses a power that is not prescribed, no report is required. The Takeovers Panel's power to disregard matters in submissions that are frivolous or vexatious (regulation 26) and the requirement to note such disregard on the submission (regulation 27) mean that a party who makes a frivolous or vexatious submission will have that fact recorded on the submission itself. The time limit for deferred sales model exemptions in regulation 12B(2) means that the exemptions will expire after five years; industry participants who rely on the exemptions must anticipate their expiry and plan accordingly.
How to comply
Compliance with the Regulations requires a multi-dimensional approach. Persons who receive a notice under section 19 of the Act requiring them to attend an examination should immediately engage legal representation, carefully review Form 1 for the time, date, place, and the identity of the examining officer, attend as required, and give all reasonable assistance. They should be aware that the privilege against self-incrimination is abrogated but that a use immunity applies to oral statements and signed records if a claim is made before the statement is made or the record is signed. A body corporate does not have this protection. Persons who receive a notice to produce books under Form 2 must produce the specified books at the time and place stated; they should ensure that the description of books in the notice is sufficiently clear and should consider whether any legal professional privilege or other valid claim may apply. A witness who receives a summons under Form 3 must attend and produce any documents specified; they are entitled to be paid allowances and expenses under Schedule 2. ASIC itself must comply with the annual reporting requirement in regulation 8AAA, maintaining records of how many times it uses each prescribed information gathering power in each financial year and reporting those figures in its annual report. Relevant providers who are subject to the circumstances specified in regulation 12N should be aware that ASIC must convene a Financial Services and Credit Panel in those circumstances unless ASIC has exercised or proposes to exercise its own powers in relation to the matter. This creates an important procedural safeguard: ASIC cannot simply let a matter lie without action if one of the specified circumstances applies. Insurers and distributors of add-on insurance products must assess whether their products fall within any of the exemptions in Part 2A and must be prepared for the expiry of those exemptions after five years. The exemptions are product-specific and defined in detail in regulations 12C to 12M; a product that does not meet the precise definition of an exempt product will be subject to the deferred sales model under the Act. Market operators and participants in National Stock Exchange of Australia Limited and Bendigo Stock Exchange Limited must ensure that they meet the requirements of regulation 46 to avoid being treated as operating a clearing and settlement facility. Professional disciplinary bodies listed in regulation 8AA should be aware that ASIC may disclose confidential information to them for disciplinary purposes. Bodies corporate listed in Schedule 3 may receive confidential information from ASIC under regulation 8AB. Professionals covered by the professional standards schemes listed in regulation 3A should ensure that they are familiar with the terms of their scheme, including any limits on liability and any exclusions.
(1) For paragraph 12BAA(7)(k) of the Act, each of the following is a credit facility:
(a) the provision of credit:
(i) for any period; and
(ii) with or without prior agreement between the credit provider and the debtor; and
(iii) whether or not both credit and debit facilities are available;
(b) a facility:
(i) known as a bill facility; and
(ii) under which a credit provider provides credit by accepting, drawing, discounting or indorsing a bill of exchange or promissory note;
(c) the provision of credit by a pawnbroker in the ordinary course of a pawnbroker’s business (being a business which is being lawfully conducted by the pawnbroker);
(d) the provision of credit by the trustee of the estate of a deceased person by way of an advance to a beneficiary or prospective beneficiary of the estate;
(e) the provision of credit by an employer, or a related body corporate of an employer, to an employee or former employee (whether or not it is provided to the employee or former employee with another person);
(f) the provision of a mortgage that secures obligations under a credit contract (other than a lien or charge arising by operation of any law or by custom);
(g) a guarantee related to a mortgage mentioned in paragraph (f);
(h) a guarantee of obligations under a credit contract;
(i) a facility for making non‑cash payments if payments made using the facility will all be debited to a facility mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (h).
(2) The provision of consumer credit insurance that includes a contract of general insurance for the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 is not a credit facility.
(3) In this regulation:
credit means a contract, arrangement or understanding:
(a) under which:
(i) payment of a debt owed by one person (a debtor) to another person (a credit provider) is deferred; or
(ii) one person (a debtor) incurs a deferred debt to another person (a credit provider); and
(b) including any of the following:
(i) any form of financial accommodation;
(ii) a hire purchase agreement;
(iii) credit provided for the purchase of goods or services;
(iv) a contract, arrangement or understanding for the hire, lease or rental of goods or services, other than a contract, arrangement or understanding under which:
(A) full payment is made before or when the goods or services are provided; and
(B) for the hire, lease or rental of goods—an amount at least equal to the value of the goods is paid as a deposit in relation to the return of the goods;
(v) an article known as a credit card or charge card;
(vi) an article, other than a credit card or a charge card, intended to be used to obtain cash, goods or services;
(vii) an article, other than a credit card or a charge card, commonly issued to customers or prospective customers by persons who carry on business for the purpose of obtaining goods or services from those persons by way of a loan;
(viii) a liability in respect of redeemable preference shares;
(ix) a financial benefit arising from or as a result of a loan;
(x) assistance in obtaining a financial benefit arising from or as a result of a loan;
(xi) issuing, indorsing or otherwise dealing in a promissory note;
(xii) drawing, accepting, indorsing or otherwise dealing in a negotiable instrument (including a bill of exchange);
(xiii) granting or taking a lease over real or personal property;
(xiv) a letter of credit.
2BA Declared financial product
2BA Declared financial product
For paragraph 12BAA(7)(m) of the Act, a margin lending facility is declared to be a financial product for the purposes of subsection 12BAA(7) of the Act.
2BAA Specific things that are not financial products—payment systems
2BAA Specific things that are not financial products—payment systems
For the purposes of paragraph 12BAA(8)(e) of the Act, each of the following is not a financial product:
(a) the credit card system operated within Australia known as the MasterCard system or MasterCard network card system and designated as a payment system under section 11 of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 12 April 2001;
(b) the credit card system operated within Australia known as the VISA system or the VISA network card system and designated as a payment system under section 11 of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 12 April 2001;
(c) the debit card system operated within Australia known as Visa debit and designated as a payment system under section 11 of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 23 February 2004;
(d) the payment system operated within Australia known as the ATM system and designated by Designation No 1 of 2008 as a payment system under section 11 of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 10 December 2008;
(e) the debit card system operated within Australia known as the EFTPOS system and designated by Designation No 1 of 2012 as a payment system under subsection 11(1) of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 12 June 2012;
(f) the debit card system operated within Australia known as Debit MasterCard and designated by Designation No 2 of 2015 (Designation of the Debit MasterCard system) as a payment system under subsection 11(1) of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 15 October 2015;
(g) the prepaid card system operated within Australia and designated by Designation No 3 of 2015 (Designation of the EFTPOS prepaid system) as a payment system under subsection 11(1) of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 15 October 2015;
(h) the prepaid card system operated within Australia known as MasterCard Prepaid and designated by Designation No 4 of 2015 (Designation of the MasterCard prepaid system) as a payment system under subsection 11(1) of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 15 October 2015;
(i) the prepaid card system operated within Australia known as Visa Prepaid and designated by Designation No 5 of 2015 (Designation of the Visa prepaid system) as a payment system under subsection 11(1) of the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998 on 15 October 2015.
2BB Specific things that are not financial products—Australian carbon credit units and eligible international emissions units
2BB Specific things that are not financial products—Australian carbon credit units and eligible international emissions units
(1) For paragraph 12BAA(8)(p) of the Act:
(a) an Australian carbon credit unit is not a financial product; and
(b) an eligible international emissions unit is not a financial product.
(2) On 1 July 2012:
(a) subregulation (1) ceases to apply; and
(b) Australian carbon credit units and eligible international emissions units become financial products.
2BC Specific things that are not financial products—certain tradeable water rights
2BC Specific things that are not financial products—certain tradeable water rights
(1) For paragraph 12BAA(8)(p) of the Act, each of the following is not a financial product:
(a) tradeable water rights;
(b) an arrangement:
(i) under which a person (the seller) has, or may have, an obligation to sell tradeable water rights at a future date; and
(ii) under which another person (the buyer) has, or may have, an obligation to buy the tradeable water rights, or replacement water rights, at a future date; and
(iii) that does not permit the seller’s obligations to be wholly settled by cash, or by set‑off between the seller and the buyer, rather than by transfer of ownership of the tradeable water rights or replacement water rights; and
(iv) in relation to which neither usual market practice, nor the rules of a licensed market or of a licensed CS facility, allow the seller’s obligations to be closed out by matching up the arrangement with another arrangement of the same kind under which the seller has offsetting obligations to buy the tradeable water rights or replacement water rights.
(2) In subregulation (1):
replacement water rights means tradeable water rights that are granted, issued or authorised as a replacement for the seller’s tradeable water rights, including as a result of transformation arrangements mentioned in subsection 97(1) of the Water Act 2007.
tradeable water rights has the same meaning as in the Water Act 2007.
2BD Specific things that are not financial products—guarantees issued by the NHFIC
2BD Specific things that are not financial products—guarantees issued by the NHFIC
For paragraph 12BAA(8)(p) of the Act, a guarantee the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation has issued in the performance of its function under paragraph 8(1)(ca) of the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation Act 2018 is not a financial product.
2C Meaning of financial service—off‑market offers for financial products
2C Meaning of financial service—off‑market offers for financial products
For paragraph 12BAB(1)(h) of the Act, a person provides a financial service if:
(a) the person makes an unsolicited offer to purchase a financial product from another person otherwise than through a licensed financial market; and
(b) the other person acquired the financial product as a retail client.
2D Circumstances in which a person is taken to be provided a traditional trustee company service
2D Circumstances in which a person is taken to be provided a traditional trustee company service
For subsection 12BAB(1B) of the Act, a person who is one of the following:
(a) a person who may request an annual information return under subregulation 5D.2.01(3) of the Corporations Regulations 2001;
(b) a person who requests the preparation of a will, a trust instrument, a power of attorney or an agency arrangement;
is, in relation to an estate management function, prescribed as the person to whom the service is taken to be provided for the purpose of Division 2 of Part 2 of the Act.
2DA Prescribed amount—acquiring financial services as a consumer
2DA Prescribed amount—acquiring financial services as a consumer
For the purposes of paragraph 12BC(3)(a) of the Act, the amount of $100,000 is prescribed.
2E Prescribed requirements for definition of assert a right to payment
2E Prescribed requirements for definition of assert a right to payment
For paragraph 12BEA(1)(e) of the Act, the following requirements are prescribed:
(a) the statement must include the text ‘This is not a bill. You are not required to pay any money.’;
(b) the text must be the most prominent text in the document.
2F Prescribed requirements for warning statements
2F Prescribed requirements for warning statements
For paragraphs 12DM(1AA)(b) and 12DMB(2)(b) of the Act, the following requirements are prescribed:
(a) the warning statement must include the text ‘This is not a bill. You are not required to pay any money.’; and
(b) the text must be the most prominent text in the document.
Part 2 General
Part 2—General
3A Professional standards schemes
3A Professional standards schemes
For subsection 12GNA(2) of the Act, a scheme and any modifications to the scheme set out in the following table are prescribed.
Note: Column 2 of the table below is included for information only.
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