Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04501:schedule:2:p22
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04501
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 2 (pt 22/22)
Character Range: 490547–492458

situation of the place of storage and the place of inspection.

"(2) Subject to subsection (4), the corporation is taken to have complied with the requirements of this Law as to the location of the book, but only in so far as the book is required to contain the stored matters.

"(3) Subject to subsection (4), for the purposes of the application of subsection 1085(3) and section 1300 in relation to the corporation and

the book, the book is taken to be kept at the place of inspection, even though the record of the stored matters is kept at the place of storage.

  "(4) If:

    (a)     the situation of the place of storage or the place of inspection changes; and

    (b)     the corporation does not lodge notice of the change within 14 days after the change;

this section, as it applies to the corporation because of the lodging of the notice referred to in paragraph (1)(d), ceases to so apply at the end of that period of 14 days.".

Form and evidentiary value of books

  172. Section 1306 of the Corporations Law is amended:

    (a) by omitting subsection (5) and substituting the following subsections:

     "(4A) The regulations may provide for how up to date the information contained in an instrument prepared for the purposes of subsection (4) must be.

       "(5) If:

         (a)     because of this Law, a book that this Law requires to be kept or prepared is prima facie evidence of a matter; and

         (b)     the book, or a part of the book, is kept or prepared by recording or storing matters (including that matter) by means of a mechanical, electronic or other device;

     a written reproduction of that matter as so recorded or stored is prima facie evidence of that matter.";

    (b)    by omitting from subsection (6) "matters" (first occurring) and substituting "a matter";

    (c)     by omitting from subsection (6) "those matters" and substituting "that matter".