Corporations Act 2001
CHAPTER 7
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FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS
In this section and in Division 5B :
(a) securities; or
(b) managed investment products; or
(ba) foreign passport fund products; or
(c) financial products referred to in paragraph 764A(1) (j); or
(d) financial products of any other kind prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this definition.
Subject to this section and the regulations, a person must only, in this jurisdiction, sell section 1020B products to a buyer if, at the time of the sale:
(a) the person has or, if the person is selling on behalf of another person, that other person has; or
(b) the person believes on reasonable grounds that the person has, or if the person is selling on behalf of another person, that other person has;
For the purposes of subsection (2):
(a) a person who, at a particular time, has a presently exercisable and unconditional right to have section 1020B products vested in the person, or in accordance with the directions of the person, has at that time a presently exercisable and unconditional right to vest the products in another person; and
(b) a right of a person to vest section 1020B products in another person is not conditional merely because the products are subject to a security interest in favour of another person to secure the repayment of money.
Subsection (2) does not apply in relation to a sale of section 1020B products by a person who, before the time of sale, has entered into a contract to buy those products and who has a right to have those products vested in the person that is conditional only upon all or any of the following:
(a) payment of the consideration in respect of the purchase;
(b) the receipt by the person of a proper instrument of transfer in respect of the products;
(c) the receipt by the person of the documents that are, or are documents of title to, the products.
(Repealed by No 146 of 2008, s 3, Sch 2 [ 2].) 1020B(6)
(Repealed by No 146 of 2008, s 3, Sch 2 [ 2].) 1020B(7)
For the purposes of this section, a person who:
(a) purports to sell section 1020B products; or
(b) offers to sell section 1020B products; or
(c) holds himself, herself or itself out as entitled to sell section 1020B products; or
(d) instructs a financial services licensee to sell section 1020B products;
PART 7.9
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FINANCIAL PRODUCT DISCLOSURE AND OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO ISSUE, SALE AND PURCHASE OF FINANCIAL PRODUCTS
Division 6
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Miscellaneous
SECTION 1020B
PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN SHORT SALES OF SECURITIES, MANAGED INVESTMENT PRODUCTS, FOREIGN PASSPORT FUND PRODUCTS AND CERTAIN OTHER FINANCIAL PRODUCTS
1020B(1)
In this section and in Division 5B :
(a) securities; or
(b) managed investment products; or
(ba) foreign passport fund products; or
(c) financial products referred to in paragraph 764A(1) (j); or
(d) financial products of any other kind prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this definition.
1020B(2)
Subject to this section and the regulations, a person must only, in this jurisdiction, sell section 1020B products to a buyer if, at the time of the sale:
(a) the person has or, if the person is selling on behalf of another person, that other person has; or
(b) the person believes on reasonable grounds that the person has, or if the person is selling on behalf of another person, that other person has;
a presently exercisable and unconditional right to vest the products in the buyer.
Note: Failure to comply with this subsection is an offence (see subsection 1311(1) ).
1020B(3)
For the purposes of subsection (2):
(a) a person who, at a particular time, has a presently exercisable and unconditional right to have section 1020B products vested in the person, or in accordance with the directions of the person, has at that time a presently exercisable and unconditional right to vest the products in another person; and
(b) a right of a person to vest section 1020B products in another person is not conditional merely because the products are subject to a security interest in favour of another person to secure the repayment of money.
1020B(4)
Subsection (2) does not apply in relation to a sale of section 1020B products by a person who, before the time of sale, has entered into a contract to buy those products and who has a right to have those products vested in the person that is conditional only upon all or any of the following:
(a) payment of the consideration in respect of the purchase;
(b) the receipt by the person of a proper instrument of transfer in respect of the products;
(c) the receipt by the person of the documents that are, or are documents of title to, the products.
1020B(5)
(Repealed by No 146 of 2008, s 3, Sch 2 [ 2].) 1020B(6)
(Repealed by No 146 of 2008, s 3, Sch 2 [ 2].) 1020B(7)
For the purposes of this section, a person who:
(a) purports to sell section 1020B products; or
(b) offers to sell section 1020B products; or
(c) holds himself, herself or itself out as entitled to sell section 1020B products; or
(d) instructs a financial services licensee to sell section 1020B products;
is taken to sell the products.
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