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CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 No. 50, 2001 - SECT 776 Securities exchanges to provide assistance to ASIC

CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 No. 50, 2001 - SECT 776

Securities exchanges to provide assistance to ASIC

(1) A securities exchange must provide such assistance to ASIC, or to a person acting on behalf of, or with the authority of, ASIC, as ASIC reasonably requires for the performance of its functions. (2) Where a securities exchange reprimands, fines, suspends, expels or otherwise takes disciplinary action against a member of the securities exchange, it must as soon as practicable lodge written particulars of the name of the member, the reason for and nature of the action taken, the amount of the fine (if any) and the period of the suspension (if any). (2A) A securities exchange that believes a person has committed, is committing or is about to commit, a serious contravention of the securities exchange's business rules or listing rules, or this Act, must, as soon as practicable, lodge a statement setting out:

(a)
particulars of the contravention that it believes the person has committed, is committing or is about to commit; and

(b)
its reasons for that belief.

(2B) Subject to subsection (2C), a securities exchange that makes information about a listed disclosing entity available to a stock market conducted by the securities exchange must, as soon as practicable, give ASIC a document that contains the information. (2C) The regulations may provide that subsection (2B) does not apply to information of a specified kind. (3) A person authorised by ASIC is entitled at all reasonable times to full and free access for any of the purposes of this Chapter to the trading floor or trading floors of a securities exchange. (4) A person must not refuse or fail, without lawful excuse, to allow a person authorised by ASIC access in accordance with subsection (3) to a trading floor of a securities exchange. (5) In this section:

"trading floor", in relation to a securities exchange, means a place or facility maintained or provided by the securities exchange for:

(a)
the making or acceptance, by members of the securities exchange, or by such members and other persons, of offers to sell, buy or exchange securities; or

(b)
the making, by members of the securities exchange, or by such members and other persons, of offers or invitations that are intended, or may reasonably be expected, to result, whether directly or indirectly, in the making or acceptance of offers to sell, buy or exchange securities; or

(c)
the provision of information concerning the prices at which, or the consideration for which, particular persons, or particular classes of persons, propose, or may reasonably be expected, to sell, buy or exchange securities.