27DCommonwealth Bank taken to be registered under Companies Act

27D Commonwealth Bank taken to be registered under Companies Act

(1) The Securities Commission is to be taken: (a) to have been required to grant the application mentioned in paragraph 27C(1)(a) and to register the Commonwealth Bank as a company under subsection 86(2) of the Companies Act 1981; and (b) to have granted the application at the conversion time; and (c) to have so registered the Commonwealth Bank, at the conversion time: (i) by the name “Commonwealth Bank of Australia”; and (ii) in accordance with subsections 86(3) and (4) of the Companies Act 1981, as a public company, and as a company limited by shares, within the meaning of that Act; and (d) to have registered the name “Commonwealth Bank of Australia” in relation to the Commonwealth Bank at the conversion time, under subsection 55(4) of the Companies Act 1981. (2) The date of commencement of the Commonwealth Bank’s registration as a company under Division 4 of Part III of the Companies Act 1981 is to be taken to be the day on which the conversion time occurs. (3) For the purposes of Division 4 of Part III of the Companies Act 1981, the Commonwealth Bank shall be taken to have been on the day before the conversion time, and to be at the conversion time, a corporation within the meaning of that Act.