New South Wales Consolidated Acts

AGL CORPORATE CONVERSION ACT 2002 - SECT 22

22 Accounts of corporatised AGL

(1) Subject to section 18 (1) (e) and Schedule 4, the financial position of corporatised AGL on the conversion day is taken to be the same as the financial position of AGL immediately before the conversion day.

(2) In particular, the following provisions must be applied when preparing or auditing any financial report (including any financial statement) of corporatised AGL on or after the conversion day or any economic entity of which corporatised AGL is the parent entity:

(a) corporatised AGL is to be treated on and after the conversion day as being the same entity as AGL immediately before the conversion day,

(b) the opening balances in the financial reports of corporatised AGL on the conversion day (if any such reports are prepared) are to be treated as being the same as the closing balances in the financial reports of AGL immediately before the conversion day,

(c) corporatised AGL is to be treated as being the parent entity of each economic entity of which AGL is the parent entity immediately before the conversion day, and the existence of that economic entity is to be treated as being continuous from immediately before the conversion day,

(d) the opening balances in the financial reports of each economic entity of which corporatised AGL is the parent entity on the conversion day (if any such reports are prepared) are to be treated as being the same as the closing balances in the financial reports of that entity immediately before the conversion day.

(3) The provisions of subsections (1) and (2) are declared to be Corporations legislation displacement provisions for the purposes of section 5G of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth in relation to the provisions of Chapter 2M of that Act.

Note: Section 5G of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth provides that if a State law declares a provision of a State law to be a Corporations legislation displacement provision, any provision of the Corporations legislation with which the State provision would otherwise be inconsistent does not apply to the extent necessary to avoid the inconsistency.

(4) In this section, the expressions "economic entity", "entity" and "parent entity" have the same meanings as they have in Accounting Standard AASB 1024: Consolidated Accounts made by the Australian Accounting Standards Board (as in force from time to time).