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Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 217, 2015
made under the

Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975

Compilation No. 19

Compilation date: 10 December 2024

                Includes amendments: F2024L01603

About this compilation

This compilation

This is a compilation of the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation 2015 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 10 December 2024 (the compilation date).

The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.

Uncommenced amendments

The effect of uncommenced amendments is not shown in the text of the compiled law. Any uncommenced amendments affecting the law are accessible on the Register (www.legislation.gov.au). The details of amendments made up to, but not commenced at, the compilation date are underlined in the endnotes. For more information on any uncommenced amendments, see the Register for the compiled law.

Application, saving and transitional provisions for provisions and amendments

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Editorial changes

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Modifications

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Self‑repealing provisions

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Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name
3 Authority
4 Simplified outline of this Part
5 Definitions
7 Meaning of enterprise of a country or region
8 Meaning of national of a country
8AA Meaning of national security business
8A Meaning of resident of a region
9 References to United States of America
9A References to China
Part 2—Provisions relating to definitions and rules of interpretation
11 Simplified outline of this Part
12 When an Australian entity or Australian business is an agribusiness
13 Land entities
13A Meaning of Australian media business
14 Meaning of consideration
15 Number of independent self‑contained dwellings in a development
16 Meaning of direct interest in an entity or business
17 Meaning of foreign government investor
18 Meaning of foreign person
19 Number of future dwellings on residential land
20 Meaning of total asset value
21 Meaning of total issued securities value
22 Businesses that are sensitive businesses
22A Rights that are not