Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 - SECT 178

             (1)  A company may keep a branch register of members at a place outside Australia.

             (2)  If a company keeps an overseas branch register under subsection (1):

                     (a)  the company must keep the branch register in the same manner as this Act requires the company to keep the register kept under section 169 (the principal register ); and

                     (b)  the company must enter in the principal register the details contained in the branch register; and

                     (c)  the company must distinguish shares that are registered in the branch register from the shares registered in the principal register.