Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers (Register Notices – Extensions of Time) Instrument 2026
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Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers (Register Notices – Extensions of Time) Instrument 2026
I, Jeremy Hirschhorn, acting Commissioner of Taxation in my capacity as acting Registrar, make the following instrument.
Dated 7 January 2026
Jeremy Hirschhorn
Acting Registrar
Contents
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Definitions
5 Extensions of time to give a register notice
1 Name
This instrument is the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers (Register Notices – Extensions of Time) Instrument 2026.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
- Commencement information
- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
- Provisions Commencement Date/Details
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- The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered.
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under section 58M of the Regulation.
Note: Under subsection 137(2A) of the Act, the Treasurer has delegated to the Registrar the Treasurer’s powers under section 58M of the Regulation by the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers (Registrar) Delegations 2023.
4 Definitions
Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 4 of the Act, including the following:
(a) register notice;
(b) Registrar.
In this instrument:
Act means the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975.
Regulation means the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation 2015.
5 Extensions of time to give a register notice
The Registrar may, by notice in writing, extend the period referred to in paragraph 130W(2)(b) of the Act in which a register notice must be given to the Registrar:
(a) by any number of days; and
(b) any number of times.