9Identity evidence for application—Act, pars 12(2)(b) and (c)

9  Identity evidence for application—Act, pars 12(2)(b) and (c)

 (1) An application for registration for the purposes of the Act must also include the following information:

 (a) if the applicant is an individual, or is a kind of applicant mentioned in an item of the table in subsection (2)—identity evidence for the applicant;

 (b) if the applicant is a body corporate that does not have an ABN, ACN, ARBN or ICN—identity evidence for the following:

 (i) if the applicant is a foreign person that is a public company, or has only one executive officer—one executive officer of the applicant;

 (ii) in any other case—2 executive officers of the applicant;

 (c) if the applicant is a trust, and at least one trustee of the trust is an individual—identity evidence for each trustee who is an individual;

 (d) if the applicant is a trust, and at least one trustee is a body corporate that does not have an ABN, ACN, ARBN or ICN—in respect of each of the bodies corporate, identity evidence for:

 (i) if the body corporate is a foreign person that is a public company, or has only one executive officer—one executive officer of the body corporate; or

 (ii) in any other case—2 executive officers of the body corporate.

 (2) For subsection (1), an application is taken to have included identity evidence for a person if:

 (a) if the person is a kind of applicant mentioned in an item of the following table—a certified copy of each document set out in the item is given to the Regulator with the application; or

 (b) if the person is an individual:

 (i) the person consents to the transfer of the person’s digital identity from an identity service provider to the Regulator, and the Regulator is able to accept that digital identity from that provider; or

 (ii) a certified copy of each document mentioned in each paragraph in subsection (3) applying to the person is given to the Regulator with the application; or

 (iii) information mentioned in subsection (4) is given to the Regulator with the application; or

 (iv) if section 11 applies in relation to the application—the application meets the requirement in section 11.

 

• Documents required to establish applicant’s identity
• Item Applicant Documents
• 1 An applicant that is a body corporate If the body is not registered in Australia—the certificate of the body’s registration (if any) with a registry established under a law of a foreign country.
• 2 An applicant that is a trust The following:(a) if there is a trust deed—the deed, or an extract of the deed, that identifies the trustees and beneficiaries (or classes of beneficiary);(b) if there is no trust deed:(i) a document having similar effect to a trust deed; or(ii) the certificate of registration as a trust (if any);(c) for each trustee that is a body corporate—the documents mentioned in item 1