New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION (TRANSFER OF INCORPORATION) ACT 2000 - SECT 5

5 Westpac is deemed registration company

(1) Westpac is a deemed registration company for the purposes of section 5H of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth.

(2) For the purposes of that section:

(a) the day on which Westpac is to be taken to be registered as a company is the registration date specified by the Attorney General in an order made under section 5A, and

(b) the type of company that Westpac is to be registered as is a public company limited by shares, and

(c) the company’s proposed name is “Westpac Banking Corporation”.

Note: Section 5H of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth provides that a body is taken to be registered under that Act as a company of a particular type under section 118 of that Act if a law of a State or Territory to which the Act applies:

(a) provides that the body is a deemed registration company for the purposes of the section, and

(b) specifies:

(i) the day on which the body is to be taken to be registered (the registration day) or the manner in which that day is to be fixed, and

(ii) the type of company the body is to be registered as under the Act, and

(iii) the company’s proposed name (unless the ACN is to be used in its name),

and if section 5H (2) and (3) (relating to the lodgement of certain notices and documents with ASIC) are satisfied.