Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03231:body:0:p9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03231
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 22270–24973

8 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Approved manner of dispatch
"8a. (1) For the purposes of this Act, a person (in this sub-section referred to as the 'relevant person') shall be taken to dispatch a document to another person (in this sub-section referred to as the 'other person') in an approved manner if, and only if, the relevant person dispatches the document to the other person—
     (a) in a case where, at the time when the relevant person dispatches the document to the other person, there is in force in relation to the document, or in relation to a class of documents that includes the document, a direction under sub-section (2) served on the person—in the manner specified in the direction;
     (b) in a case where, at the time when the relevant person dispatches the document to the other person, there is in force in relation to the document, or in relation to a class of documents that includes the document, an approval under sub-section (3) served on the person—in the manner specified in the approval or in the prescribed manner; or
     (c) in any other case—in the prescribed manner.
"(2) The Commission may, by instrument in writing served on a person, direct the person to dispatch in a specified manner—
     (a) a specified document that the person proposes to dispatch under this Act; or
     (b) documents included in a specified class of documents that the person proposes to dispatch under this Act.
"(3) The Commission may, on application by a person, approve, by instrument in writing served on the person, the dispatch by the person in a specified manner of—
     (a) a specified document that the person proposes to dispatch under this Act; or
     (b) documents included in a specified class of documents that the person proposes to dispatch under this Act.

"(4) Notwithstanding sub-section (1), a person who, before the commencement of section 7 of the Companies and Securities Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1985, dispatched a document in a manner approved by the Commission shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act as in force after that commencement, to have dispatched the document in an approved manner.".

Relevant interests in shares
8. (1) Section 9 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting sub-sections (4) and (5) and substituting the following sub-sections:
    "(4) Without limiting the generality of sub-sections (1), (2) and (3), where a body corporate has, or is by virtue of this section to be deemed to have, power—
         (a) to exercise, or to control the exercise of, the right to vote attached to a voting share; or
         (b) to dispose of, or to exercise control over the disposal of,