Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00182:section:30b:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00182
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 30B (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 313354–316207

30B  Notice to registered liquidators concerning information and books
 (1) Subject to subsection (2), ASIC may give a registered liquidator a written notice requiring the liquidator:
 (a) to give specified information; and
 (b) to produce specified books;
to a specified member or staff member at a specified place and time.
Note: Failure to comply with a requirement made under this subsection is an offence (see section 63).
 (2) The power in subsection (1) may only be exercised:
 (a) for the purposes of the performance or exercise of any of ASIC's functions and powers in relation to the liquidator requirements; or
 (b) for the purposes of ascertaining compliance with the liquidator requirements; or
 (c) in relation to:
 (i) an alleged or suspected contravention of the liquidator requirements; or
 (ii) an alleged or suspected contravention of a law of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory in this jurisdiction, being a contravention that relates to the performance or exercise of a registered liquidator's functions, duties or powers and that either concerns the management of the affairs of a body corporate or involves fraud or dishonesty and relates to a body corporate; or
 (d) for the purposes of an investigation under Division 1 relating to a contravention referred to in paragraph (c).
 (3) The liquidator requirements are the requirements in relation to registered liquidators, the external administration of companies or the control of the property of corporations under:
 (a) Chapter 5 of the Corporations Act; and
 (b) Schedule 2 to the Corporations Act; and
 (c) other provisions of the Corporations Act that relate to that Chapter or Schedule.
 (4) Without limiting subsection (1), a notice under that subsection may specify information or books that relate to any or all of the following:
 (a) the policies relating to the external administration of companies and the control of the property of corporations that the registered liquidator has adopted or proposes to adopt;
 (b) the procedures relating to the external administration of companies and the control of the property of corporations that the registered liquidator has put in place or proposes to put in place;
 (c) the external administration of a company, or companies, that the registered liquidator has conducted, is conducting or is proposing to conduct;
 (d) the control of the property of a corporation, or corporations, that the registered liquidator has conducted, is conducting or is proposing to conduct;
 (e) any other matter relating to the external administration of companies or the control of the property of corporations that is prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph.
 (5) Without limiting subsection (1), a notice under that subsection may require the registered liquidator to give information or produce books even if doing so would