Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185:section:1020ae
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1020AE
Character Range: 4461845–4462799

1020AE  Licensee's obligation to ask seller about short sale
  The financial services licensee must not make a sale in this jurisdiction of section 1020B products on a licensed market if:
 (a) the sale is on behalf of a person (the seller); and
 (b) the seller will be obliged under section 1020AB to give the financial services licensee information in relation to the sale; and
 (c) either or both of the following apply:
 (i) before making the sale, the financial services licensee failed to ask the seller, orally or in writing, whether the seller will be obliged under section 1020AB to give the financial services licensee information in relation to the sale;
 (ii) before making the sale, the financial services licensee failed to record, in writing, the seller's answer.
Note 1: Failure to comply with this section is an offence (see subsection 1311(1)).
Note 2: For the definition of writing, see section 2B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.