Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185:section:1017b:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1017B (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 4388955–4391634

1017B  Ongoing disclosure of material changes and significant events

Issuer to notify holders of changes and events
 (1) If:
 (a) a person (the holder) acquired a financial product as a retail client (whether or not it was acquired from the issuer); and
 (b) either:
 (i) the financial product was offered in this jurisdiction; or
 (ii) the holder applied for the financial product in this jurisdiction; and
 (c) the product is not specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; and
 (d) the circumstances in which the product was acquired are not specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph;
the issuer must, in accordance with subsections (3) to (8), notify the holder of changes and events referred to in subsection (1A).
Note: Failure to comply with this subsection is an offence (see subsection 1311(1)).

The changes and events that must be notified
 (1A) The changes and events that must be notified are:
 (a) any material change to a matter, or significant event that affects a matter, being a matter that would have been required to be specified in a Product Disclosure Statement for the financial product prepared on the day before the change or event occurs; and
 (b) any other change, event or other matter of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; and
 (c) without limiting paragraph (a) or (b)—any replacement of a kind specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph of a beneficial interest of a class that is a MySuper product with a beneficial interest of another class in a superannuation entity.
Note: Paragraph (a) applies whether or not a Product Disclosure Statement for the financial product was in fact prepared (or required to be prepared) on the day before the change or event occurs.
 (2) The issuer does not need to give the notice if the financial product is a managed investment product or foreign passport fund product that is an ED security.
Note 1: The continuous disclosure provisions in Chapter 6CA apply to managed investment products and foreign passport fund products that are ED securities.
Note 2: A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to the matters in this subsection.
 (3) The issuer must notify the holder in one of the following ways:
 (a) in writing; or
 (b) electronically; or
 (c) in a way specified in the regulations.
 (4) The notice must give the holder the information that is reasonably necessary for the holder to understand the nature and effect of the change or event.

Time for notifying holders
 (5) The time within which the issuer must give the notice is set out in the following table:

Time for giving notice of