THE CORPORATIONS LAW

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

PART 5B.2 - REGISTRABLE BODIES

Division 1 - Registrable Australian bodies

SECTION 601CB   APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION  

601CB    Subject to section 102A and this Part, where a registrable Australian body 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;

(b)  a certified copy of its constitution;

(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 242(2);

(d)  unless the body is a registrable local body - in relation to each existing charge on property of the body that would be a registrable charge within the meaning of Chapter 2K if the body were a registered Australian body, the documents that subsection 263(3) requires to be lodged;

(e)  notice of the address of:

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

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

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

the Commission shall:

(g)  grant the application and register the body under this Division by entering the body's name in a register kept for the purposes of this Division and of each corresponding law; and

(h)  allot to the body an ARBN distinct from the ARBN or ACN of each body corporate (other than the body) already registered as a company or registered body under the Corporations Law of any jurisdiction.