Treasury Laws Amendment (Business Registries Stabilisation and Uplift) Act 2026 (57 of 2026)

Schedule 2   ASIC powers

Part 3   Communicating with ASIC, and ASIC's communications with others

Division 1   Communicating with ASIC

Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

38   After section 11A

Insert:

11AA Manner and format requirements for lodging with, or giving or providing to, the Regulator if the Regulator is ASIC

(1) This section applies if a provision of this Act requires or permits a person to:

(a) lodge with the Regulator a document or information; or

(b) give or otherwise provide to the Regulator a document or information;

and the Regulator is ASIC.

(2) In order for a document or information to be so lodged, given or provided, the person must meet any manner and format requirements for doing so.

(3) Such manner and format requirements may be approved under subsection (4) for documents or information of that kind.

(4) ASIC may in writing:

(a) approve a manner for lodging with, or giving or providing to, ASIC a document or information of a specified kind; or

(b) approve a format for lodging with, or giving or providing to, ASIC a document or information of a specified kind.

ASIC must publish each approval on its website.

Note 1: A manner or format could be electronic.

Note 2: ASIC may approve different manners or formats for different kinds of documents or information (see subsection 33(3A) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901).

Note 3: Specifying a kind of document or information could include referring to the provision of this Act that requires it to be lodged with or given to ASIC.