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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  • 44 Certain notices, &c., not to be published  
  • 45 Certain reports referring to prospectuses not to be published  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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