Sch 3Notes to these rules

Schedule 3 Notes to these rules 

 

 

Division 1 Preliminary

 

1.1 Name of rules

  These rules are the Supreme Court (Corporations) Rules 2003.

1.2 Commencement

  These rules commence on the day after the day that the making of the rules is notified in the ACT Legislation Register.

1.3 Application of these rules and other rules of the court

 (1) Unless the court otherwise orders, these rules apply to a proceeding in the court under the Corporations Act, or the ASIC Act, begun on or after 16 July 2001.

 (2) The other rules of the court apply, so far as they are relevant and not inconsistent with these rules, to a proceeding in the court under the Corporations Act, or the ASIC Act, begun on or after 16 July 2001.

 (3) Unless the court otherwise orders, the rules applying to a proceeding in the court under the Corporations Act, or the ASIC Act, that were in force immediately before 16 July 2001, continue to apply to a proceeding under the Corporations Act, or the ASIC Act, that was begun before that date.

Note 1 Because of the definition of this Act in the Corporations Act, s 9, a reference to the Corporations Act includes a reference to the Corporations Regulations.

Note 2 16 July 2001 is the date the Corporations Rules 2001 made under the Corporations Act commenced.

1.4 Expressions used in Corporations Act

  Unless the contrary intention appears, an expression used in these rules and in the Corporations Act has the same meaning in these rules as it has in the Corporations Act.

Note Expressions used in these rules (including the notes to these rules) that are defined in the Corporations Act include:

 ACN (short for ‘Australian Company Number’)—see s 9

 ARBN (short for ‘Australian Registered Body Number’)—see s 9

 body—see s 9

 body corporate—see s 9

 books—see s 9

 company—see s 9

 corporation—see s 57A

 daily newspaper—see s 9

 foreign country—see s 9

 officer, in relation to a body corporate—see s 82A

 official liquidator—see s 9