8BMeaning of starts an Australian business

8B Meaning of starts an Australian business

(1) A foreign person starts an Australian business if: (a) the foreign person starts to carry on an Australian business; or (b) for a foreign person who already carries on an Australian business—the business starts a new activity that: (i) is not incidental to an existing activity of the Australian business; and (ii) is within a different Division under the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification Codes from the current activities of the Australian business. (2) Despite subsection (1), if a foreign person carries on an Australian business, the person does not start an Australian business merely because the foreign person, alone or together with one or more persons, establishes a new entity: (a) that carries on the same Australian business; or (b) for the purposes of acquiring interests in assets of the same Australian business.