Financial Sector Reform (Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1999 (44 of 1999)

Schedule 8   Transitional, saving and application provisions

Part 1   Transitional provisions relating to transfer from State and Territory regulatory regimes

Division 4   Transitional provisions relating to operation of the Banking Act 1959

8   Bodies taken to have consent for use of certain expressions

(1) A body that, immediately before the transfer date:

(a) was a society, services corporation or association as defined in section 3 of a Financial Institutions Code; and

(b) was trading or carrying on business (within the meaning of section 144 of that Code) under a name or title of which words, abbreviations or symbols covered by paragraph 144(2)(a) of that Code formed part;

is taken, on the transfer date, to have been granted a consent under section 66 of the Banking Act 1959 covering the body trading or carrying on business under that name or title. The consent may be dealt with under that Act as if it had actually been granted under section 66 of that Act.

(2) An exemption in force under subsection 144(4) of a Financial Institutions Code immediately before the transfer date continues to have effect from that date, and may be dealt with, as if it were a consent under section 66 of the Banking Act 1959. Any conditions to which the exemption was subject immediately before the transfer date are to be taken, from that date, to be, and may be dealt with as if they were, conditions applying under section 66 of the Banking Act 1959.