Corporations Act 2001

CHAPTER 5B - BODIES CORPORATE REGISTERED AS COMPANIES, AND REGISTRABLE BODIES  

PART 5B.2 - REGISTRABLE BODIES  

Division 2 - Foreign companies  

SECTION 601CE  

601CE   APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION  
Subject to this Part, where a foreign company lodges an application for registration under this Division that is in the prescribed form and is accompanied by:

(a)    a certified copy of a current certificate of its incorporation or registration in its place of origin, or a document of similar effect; and

(b)    a certified copy of its constitution; and

(c)    a list of its directors containing personal details of those directors that are equivalent to the personal details of directors referred to in subsection 205B(3) ; and

(d)    if that list includes directors who are:

(i) resident in Australia; and

(ii) members of a local board of directors;

a memorandum that is duly executed by or on behalf of the foreign company and states the powers of those directors; and

(e) (Repealed)

(f)    notice of the address of:

(i) if it has in its place of origin a registered office for the purposes of a law there in force - that office; or

(ii) otherwise - its principal place of business in its place of origin; and

(g)    notice of the address of its registered office under section 601CT ;

ASIC must:

(h)    grant the application and register the foreign company under this Division by entering the foreign company ' s name in a register kept for the purposes of this Division; and

(j)    allot to the foreign company an ARBN distinct from the ARBN or ACN of each body corporate (other than the foreign company) already registered as a company or registered body under this Act.