THE CORPORATIONS LAW

CHAPTER 2C - REGISTERS

SECTION 178   OVERSEAS BRANCH REGISTERS  

178(1)  [Optional overseas register]  

A company may keep a branch register of members at a place outside Australia.

178(2)  [Requirements where branch register kept]  

If a company keeps an overseas branch register under subsection (1):

(a)  the company must keep the branch register in the same manner as this Law requires the company to keep the register kept under section 169 (the ``principal register'' ); and

(b)  the company must enter in the principal register the details contained in the branch register; and

(c)  the company must distinguish shares that are registered in the branch register from the shares registered in the principal register.




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