CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 - SECT 168 Registers to be maintained

CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 - SECT 168

  (1)   A company or registered scheme must set up and maintain:

  (a)   a register of members (see section   169); and

  (b)   if the company or scheme grants options over unissued shares or interests--a register of option holders and copies of options documents (see section   170); and

  (c)   if the company issues debentures--a register of debenture holders (see section   171).

Note 1A:   See also section   672DA (register of relevant interests in listed company, listed registered scheme or listed notified foreign passport fund).

Note 2:   The registers may be kept on computer (see section   1306).

  (1A)   An offence based on subsection   (1) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:   For strict liability , see section   6.1 of the Criminal Code .

  (2)   For the purposes of this Chapter, choses in action (including an undertaking) that fall into one of the exceptions in paragraphs   (a), (b), (e) and (f) of the definition of debenture in section   9 must also be entered into the register of debenture holders.