THE CORPORATIONS LAW

CHAPTER 2K - CHARGES

PART 2K.2 - REGISTRATION

SECTION 275A   CHARGES OF BODIES TO WHICH SECTION 1362CJ APPLIES  

275A(1)  [Registrable body]  

This section applies if a registrable body is taken to have been registered according to section 1362CJ.

275A(2)  [Application of Chapter in relation to registrable body]  

This Chapter (other than this section) applies in relation to the body, with such modifications as the circumstances require, as if:

(a)  this Law had always been in operation; and

(b)  the body had been a registered body throughout each period before 1 January 1991 throughout which it was registered under a previous law of this jurisdiction relating to foreign companies within the meaning of that law; and

(c)  an act or thing done by or in relation to the body under, or for the purposes of, a previous law of this jurisdiction corresponding to a provision of this Chapter had been done under, or for the purposes of, that provision; and

(d)  a reference in this Chapter to the Register included a reference to a register of company charges kept under a previous law of this jurisdiction corresponding to section 265.

275A(3)  [Person not guilty]  

Nothing in subsection (2) makes a person guilty of a contravention of this Law in respect of an act or thing done, or an omission made, before 1 January 1991.

275A(4)  [Charge on property]  

Subsection (5) applies to each charge on property of the body that, immediately before 1 January 1991, was registered under a previous law of this jurisdiction corresponding to this Part.

275A(5)  [Entry in Register]  

The Commission is taken to have entered in the Register at the beginning of 1 January 1991, in accordance with subsection 265(2), the time and date, and the particulars, entered in relation to the charge under the previous law referred to in subsection (4) of this section.