Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00113:section:9:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00113
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 9 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 15979–18657

9  Obligations of corporations
 (1) If, on the commencement of this Part, a registrable corporation is not a registered entity, the corporation must, before the end of 60 days after the date of commencement of this Part, give to APRA the documents mentioned in subsection (5).
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
Note: If a corporation to which subsection (1) applies fails to give the documents to APRA before the end of the period specified in that subsection, the obligation to give them to APRA continues after the end of that period with daily offences being committed until the obligation is complied with (see section 4K of the Crimes Act 1914).
 (2) If, after the commencement of this Part, a corporation becomes a registrable corporation, whether at the time of its incorporation or at a later time and whether or not the corporation has previously been a registrable corporation, the corporation must, before the end of 60 days after the day on which it becomes a registrable corporation, give to APRA the documents mentioned in subsection (5).
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
Note: If a corporation to which subsection (2) applies fails to give the documents to APRA before the end of the period specified in that subsection, the obligation to give them to APRA continues after the end of that period with daily offences being committed until the obligation is complied with (see section 4K of the Crimes Act 1914).
 (3) APRA may, before the end of the period referred to in subsection (1) or (2) (including any period that is taken to be substituted for that period by any other application or applications of this subsection) allow a longer period for the giving by a particular corporation of documents in accordance with that subsection and, in that case, the longer period is taken, for the purposes of the application of that subsection in relation to that corporation, to be substituted for the period referred to in that subsection.
 (4) Neither subsection (1) nor (2) applies to a corporation if, before the end of the period referred to in that subsection (including any period that is taken to be substituted for that period by any application or applications of subsection (3) in relation to that corporation), the corporation ceases to be a registrable corporation.
Note: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to matters in subsection (4) (see subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code).
 (5) The documents referred to in subsections (1) and (2) are:
 (a) a statement in writing setting out:
 (i) the name, the place and date of incorporation and the address of the registered office of the corporation; and
 (ii) the name, and the address of the registered