House of Representatives
Treasury Laws Amendment (Registries Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2019
Business Names Registration (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019
Business Names Registration (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Act 2020
Commonwealth Registers Bill 2019
Corporations (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019
Corporations (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Act 2020
National Consumer Credit Protection (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019
National Consumer Credit Protection (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Act 2020
Explanatory Memorandum
(Circulated by authority of the Minister for Housing and Assistant Treasurer, the Hon Michael Sukkar MP)Glossary
The following abbreviations and acronyms are used throughout this Explanatory Memorandum.
| Abbreviation | Definition |
| ABN Act | A New Tax System (Australian Business Number) Act 1999 |
| ASIC | Australian Securities and Investments Commission |
| Business Names Act | The Business Names Registration Act 2011 and the Business Names Registration (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2011 |
| CATSI Act | The Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 |
| Commissioner | Commissioner of Taxation |
| Corporations Act | Corporations Act 2001 |
| Corporations Regulations | Corporations Regulations 2001 |
| Credit Act | National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 |
| Credit Regulations | National Consumer Credit Protection Regulations 2010 |
| DIN | Director Identification Number |
| Fees Acts | Business Names Registration (Fees) Act 2011; Business Names Registration (Fees) Act 2011; National Consumer Credit Protection (Fees) Act 2009; Superannuation Auditor Registration Imposition Act 2012 |
| Fees Act | The provisions of the Commonwealth Registers Bill 2019 together with the amendments in Part 1 of Schedule 1 of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Registries Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2019 [ ] |
| registrar | The Commonwealth body appointed to administer the new registry regime under the new Act |
| SMSF | Self-managed superannuation fund |
| SIS Act | Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 |