THE CORPORATIONS LAW

CHAPTER 7 - SECURITIES

PART 7.13 - TITLE TO, AND TRANSFER OF, SECURITIES

Division 1 - Title to securities

SECTION 1089   LOSS OR DESTRUCTION OF CERTIFICATES  

1089(1)  [Duplicate certificate]  

Subject to subsection (2), where a certificate or other document of title to shares, debentures or interests in a managed investment scheme is lost or destroyed, the company shall, on application by the owner of the shares, debentures or interests, issue a duplicate certificate or document to the owner:

(a)  if the company requires the payment of an amount not exceeding the prescribed amount - within 21 days after the payment is received by the company or within such longer period as the Commission approves; or

(b)  in a case to which paragraph (a) does not apply - within 21 days after the application is made or within such longer period as the Commission approves.

1089(2)  [Application for new certificate]  

The application shall be accompanied by:

(a)  a statement in writing that the certificate or document has been lost or destroyed, and has not been pledged, sold or otherwise disposed of, and, if lost, that proper searches have been made; and

(b)  an undertaking in writing that if it is found or received by the owner it will be returned to the company.

1089(3)  [Advertisement as to loss]  

The directors of a company may, before accepting an application for the issue of a duplicate certificate or document, require the applicant:

(a)  to cause an advertisement to be inserted in a daily newspaper circulating in a place specified by the directors stating that the certificate or document has been lost or destroyed and that the owner intends, after the end of 14 days after the publication of the advertisement, to apply to the company for a duplicate; or

(b)  to furnish a bond for an amount equal to at least the current market value of the shares, debentures or interests indemnifying the company against loss following the production of the original certificate or document;

or to do both those things.

1089(4)  [Cancellation under SCH certificate cancellation provisions]  

If:

(a)  a certificate of title to shares, debentures or interests is cancelled under the SCH certificate cancellation provisions; and

(b)  having regard to those provisions, the certificate should not have been cancelled;

this section applies to the certificate as though it were destroyed on its cancellation.