Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COMPANIES AND SECURITIES LEGISLATION (MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS) ACT 1983

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   1.      Short title.  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Principal Act  
   4.      Other interpretative and evidentiary provisions  
   5.      Take-over offers  
   6.      Part B statement  
   7.      Offeror connected with target company  
   8.      Provisions relating to dissenting shareholders  
   9.      Rights of remaining shareholders and holders of options and notes  
   10.     Liability for mis-statements  
   11.     Orders where prohibited acquisitions take place  
   12.     Orders where offers not dispatched pursuant to Part A statement  
   13.     Orders to protect rights under take-over schemes or announcements  
   14.     Miscellaneous provisions relating to orders  
   15.     Power to exempt from compliance with Act  
   16.     Power to declare that Act applies as if modified  
   17.      
   18.     Power of Commission to make certain orders  
   19.     Schedule  
   20.     Principal Act  
   21.     Interpretation  
   22.     Relevant interests in shares  
   23.     Insertion of Subdivision heading  
   24.     Registration of auditors  
   25.     Registration of liquidators  
   26.     Register of Auditors  
   27.     Registers of Liquidators and Official Liquidators  
   28.     Notification of certain matters  
   29.     Repeal of section 27  
   30.     Certain persons not to apply for registration as auditor or liquidator  
   31.      
   32.     Registers  
   33.     Requirements as to memorandum  
   34.      
   35.     General provisions as to alteration of memorandum  
   36.     Alterations of provisions of memorandum  
   37.     Confirmation of contracts and authentication and execution of documents  
   38.     Certificate authorizing application for transfer of incorporation  
   39.     Application by foreign company for registration under Division  
   40.     Establishment of registers and minute books  
   41.     Interpretation  
   42.     Forms of application for shares or debentures to be attached to prospectus  
   43.     Invitations or offers in relation to borrowings by a corporation  
   44.     Certain notices, &c., not to be published  
   45.     Certain reports referring to prospectuses not to be published  
   46.     Registration of prospectuses  
   47.     Repeal of section 109  
   48.     Restriction on application of capital of company  
   49.     Power to make certain payments  
   50.     Power of company to alter its share capital  
   51.     Special resolution for reduction of share capital  
   52.     Substantial shareholdings and substantial shareholders  
   53.      
   54.     Knowledge of employee or agent imputed to employer or principal  
   55.     Powers of Court with respect to defaulting substantial shareholder  
   56.     Register of debenture holders and copies of trust deed  
   57.     Branch registers  
   58.     Compliance with laws of State or other Territory sufficient compliance for certain corporations  
   59.     Interpretation  
   60.     Approved deeds  
   61.     Approval of deeds  
   62.     Approval of trustees  
   63.     Covenants to be included in deeds  
   64.     Statement to be issued  
   65.     Register of holders of prescribed interests  
   66.     Non-application of Division in certain circumstances  
   67.     Duties of company with respect to issue of certificates  
   68.      
   69.     Vacation of office  
   70.      
   71.     Duty and liability of officers  
   72.     Loans to directors  
   73.      
   74.     Convening of general meeting on requisition  
   75.     Circulation of members' resolutions, &c.  
   76.      
   77.     Exemption of certain companies  
   78.     Interpretation  
   79.      
   80.     Profit and loss account, balance-sheet and group accounts  
   81.     Directors' reports  
   82.      
   83.     Failure to comply with this Division  
   84.     Removal and resignation of auditors  
   85.     Powers and duties of auditors as to reports on accounts  
   86.     Examination of officers  
   87.     Power of Commission to make certain orders  
   88.     Application for winding up  
   89.     Remedy in cases of oppression or injustice  
   90.      
   91.     Disqualification for appointment as receiver, &c.  
   92.     Liability of receiver  
   93.      
   94.     Power of Court to fix remuneration of receivers  
   95.      
   96.     Notification of appointment of receiver  
   97.     Statement that receiver appointed  
   98.     Provisions as to information where receiver appointed  
   99.     Receiver may require reports  
   100.     
   101.    Lodging of accounts of receiver  
   102.    Payment of certain debts out of property subject to floating charge in priority to claims under charge  
   103.    Enforcement of duty of receiver to make returns  
   104.    Notice of appointment and address of official manager  
   105.    Effect of resolution  
   106.    Six-monthly meetings of creditors and members  
   107.    Circumstances in which company may be wound up by Court  
   108.    Repeal of section 380  
   109.    Final meeting and dissolution  
   110.    Reports by liquidator  
   111.    Supervision of liquidators  
   112.     
   113.    Prosecution of delinquent officers and members  
   114.    Power of Commission to deregister defunct company  
   115.    Special requirements as to articles and prospectus  
   116.    Notice to be lodged where documents, &c., altered  
   117.    Cessation of business, &c.  
   118.    Location of registers  
   119.    Interpretation  
   120.    Court may disqualify person from being a director, &c., in certain circumstances  
   121.     
   122.    Continuing offences  
   123.    Injunctions  
   124.    Regulations  
   125.    Repeal of Schedule 2  
   126.    Amendment of Schedule 3  
   127.    Amendment of Schedule 5  
   128.    Further amendments  
   129.    Principal Act  
   130.    Registered auditors and liquidators  
   131.    Principal Act  
   132.     
   133.    Definitions  
   134.     
   135.    Principal Act  
   136.    Interpretation  
   137.    Application of moneys  
   138.    Power to summon witnesses and take evidence  
   139.     
   140.    Principal Act  
   141.    Interpretation  
   142.    Power of Court to make certain orders  
   143.    Conditions to which licence is subject  
   144.    Further provisions relating to revocation and suspension of licences  
   145.    Deposits to be invested by stock exchange  
   146.    Prohibition of dealings in securities by insiders  
   147.     
   148.    Continuing offences  
   149.    Injunctions  
   150.    Regulations  
   151.    Further amendments  
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