Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response - Stronger Regulators (2019 Measures)) Act 2020 (3 of 2020)

Schedule 4   Banning orders

Part 1   Corporations amendments

Corporations Act 2001

13   After subsection 920A(1B)

Insert:

When a person has been an officer of a corporation unable to pay its debts

(1C) This subsection applies to a person in relation to a corporation if, within the last 7 years:

(a) the person was an officer of the corporation when the corporation was:

(i) carrying on a financial services business; or

(ii) engaging in credit activities (within the meaning of the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009); and

(b) the corporation was wound up either:

(i) while the person was an officer of the corporation; or

(ii) within the 12 months after the person ceased to be an officer of the corporation; and

(c) a liquidator lodged a report under subsection 533(1) (including that subsection as applied by section 526-35 of the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006) about the corporation's inability to pay its debts.

Person to be given an opportunity to be heard


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