Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185:section:1274:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1274 (pt 5/6)
Character Range: 5399669–5402219

this Act is to be received as prima facie evidence that, during that period, that company was registered under this Act.
 (7A) A certificate issued by ASIC stating that a company has been registered under this Act is conclusive evidence that:
 (a) all requirements of this Act for its registration have been complied with; and
 (b) the company was duly registered as a company under this Act on the date specified in the certificate.
 (8) If ASIC is of opinion that a document submitted for lodgment:
 (a) contains matter contrary to law; or
 (b) contains matter that, in a material particular, is false or misleading in the form or context in which it is included; or
 (c) because of an omission or misdescription has not been duly completed; or
 (d) contravenes this Act; or
 (e) contains an error, alteration or erasure;
ASIC may refuse to register or receive the document and may request:
 (f) that the document be appropriately amended or completed and resubmitted; or
 (g) that a fresh document be submitted in its place; or
 (h) where the document has not been duly completed, that a supplementary document in the prescribed form be lodged.
 (9) ASIC may require a person who submits a document for lodgment to produce to ASIC such other document, or to give to ASIC such information, as ASIC thinks necessary in order to form an opinion whether it may refuse to receive or register the first‑mentioned document.
 (10) ASIC may, if in the opinion of ASIC it is no longer necessary or desirable to retain them, destroy or dispose of:
 (a) in relation to a body corporate:
 (i) any return of allotment of shares for cash that has been lodged for not less than 2 years; or
 (ii) any balance‑sheet that has been lodged for not less than 7 years or any document creating or evidencing a charge, or the complete or partial satisfaction of a charge, where a memorandum of satisfaction of the charge has been registered for not less than 7 years; or
 (iii) any other document (other than the constitution or any other document affecting it) that has been lodged or registered for not less than 15 years; or
 (c) any document a transparency of which has been incorporated with a register kept by ASIC.
 (11) If a body corporate or other person, having made default in complying with:
 (a) any provision of this Act or of any other law that requires the lodging in any manner of any return, account or other document or the giving of notice to ASIC of any matter; or
 (b) any request of ASIC to amend or complete and resubmit any document or to submit a