Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185:section:601cg
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 601CG
Character Range: 2224542–2225777

601CG  Local agent: how appointed
 (1) A foreign company that lodges a memorandum of appointment, or a power of attorney, that is duly executed by or on behalf of the foreign company and states the name and address of a person who is:
 (a) a natural person or a company; and
 (b) resident in this jurisdiction; and
 (c) authorised to accept on the foreign company's behalf service of process and notices;
is taken to appoint that person as a local agent.
 (2) Where a memorandum of appointment, or a power of attorney, lodged under subsection (1) is executed on the foreign company's behalf, the foreign company must, unless it has already done so, lodge a copy, verified in writing in the prescribed form to be a true copy, of the document authorising the execution.
 (3) A copy lodged under subsection (2) is taken for all purposes to be the original of the document.
 (4) A foreign company that appoints a local agent must lodge a written statement that is in the prescribed form and is made by the local agent.
 (5) A person whom a foreign company appoints as a local agent is a local agent of the foreign company until the person:
 (a) ceases by virtue of section 601CH to be such a local agent; or
 (b) dies or ceases to exist.