178Overseas branch registers—companies

#### 178 Overseas branch registers—companies (1) A company may keep a branch register of members of the company at a place outside Australia. (2) If a company keeps an overseas branch register under subsection (1): (a) the company must keep the branch register in the same manner as this Act requires the company to keep the register kept under section 169 (the principal register); and (b) the company must enter in the principal register the details contained in the branch register; and (c) the company must distinguish shares that are registered in the branch register from the shares registered in the principal register.