49Further provisions for determining whether corporations are related corporations

49 Further provisions for determining whether corporations are related corporations (1) For the purposes of this Division— (a) corporations may be related corporations whether or not they own land in Victoria; (b) a reference to the issued share capital of a corporation does not include a reference to any part of it that carries no right to participate beyond a specified amount in a distribution of either profits or capital; (c) subject to paragraphs (d) and (e), any shares held or power exercisable by a person or corporation as a trustee or nominee for another person or corporation are taken to be also held or exercisable by the other person or corporation; (d) any shares held or power exercisable by a person or corporation by virtue of the provisions of any debentures of another corporation, or of a trust deed for securing any issue of any such debentures, must be disregarded; (e) any shares held or power exercisable by, or by a nominee for, a person or corporation (not being held or exercisable as mentioned in paragraph (d)) are taken to be not held or exercisable by that person or corporation if— (i) the ordinary business of that person or corporation includes the lending of money; and (ii) the shares are held or the power is exercisable only by way of security given for the purposes of a transaction entered into in the ordinary course of business in connection with the lending of money, not being a transaction entered into with an associate of that person or corporation within the meaning of the Corporations Act; (f) the composition of a corporation's board is taken to be controlled by a person or another corporation if the person or other corporation, by the exercise of a power exercisable whether or not with the consent or concurrence of any other person, can appoint or remove all or a majority of the members of the board. (2) Subsection (1)(f) does not limit the circumstances in which the composition of a corporation's board is to be taken to be controlled by a person or another corporation.