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AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION ACT 2001 - SECT 50 ASIC may cause civil proceeding to be begun

AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION ACT 2001 - SECT 50

ASIC may cause civil proceeding to be begun

    Where, as a result of an investigation or from a record of an examination (being an investigation or examination conducted under this Part), it appears to ASIC to be in the public interest for a person to begin and carry on a proceeding for:

  (a)   the recovery of damages for fraud, negligence, default, breach of duty, or other misconduct, committed in connection with a matter to which the investigation or examination related; or

  (b)   recovery of property of the person;

ASIC:

  (c)   if the person is a company--may cause; or

  (d)   otherwise--may, with the person's written consent, cause;

such a proceeding to be begun and carried on in the person's name.