New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH COMMUNITIES' LANDS ACT 1942 - SECT 22

22 Procedure for winding up

(1) The winding up of a body corporate in New South Wales is declared to be an applied Corporations legislation matter for the purposes of Part 3 of the Corporations (Ancillary Provisions) Act 2001 in relation to the provisions of Chapter 5 of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth (the "applied provisions"), subject to the following modifications:

(a) the applied provisions have effect subject to the provisions of sections 20 and 21 of this Act,

(b) a reference in the applied provisions to a company, Part 5.1 body or Part 5.7 body is taken to include a reference to a body corporate,

(c) a past or present member of a body corporate is not liable to pay the body corporate’s liabilities on the winding up or the costs, charges or expenses of the winding up despite anything to the contrary in the applied provisions,

(d) the distribution of surplus property after a body corporate is wound up is to be dealt with in accordance with section 23 despite anything to the contrary in the applied provisions,

(e) such other modifications (within the meaning of Part 3 of the Corporations (Ancillary Provisions) Act 2001 ) as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(2) The regulations may provide for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to exercise a function under any provision of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth that is the subject of the declaration under subsection (1), but only if:

(a) the Australian Securities and Investments Commission is to exercise that function pursuant to an agreement of the kind referred to in section 11 (8) or (9A) (b) of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 of the Commonwealth, and

(b) the Australian Securities and Investments Commission is authorised to exercise that function under section 11 of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 of the Commonwealth.

(3) Section 17 of the Corporations (Ancillary Provisions) Act 2001 has effect in relation to a regulation under subsection (2) as if subsection (1) had expressly made provision for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to exercise the functions concerned.