Corporations Act 2001

CHAPTER 7 - FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS  

Note: This Chapter applies to a CCIV in a modified form: see Division 4 of Part 8B.7 .

PART 7.6 - LICENSING OF PROVIDERS OF FINANCIAL SERVICES  

Division 6 - Liability of financial services licensees for representatives  

SECTION 917A   APPLICATION OF DIVISION  

917A(1)    
This Division applies to any conduct of a representative of a financial services licensee:

(a)    that relates to the provision of a financial service; and

(b)    on which a third person (the client ) could reasonably be expected to rely; and

(c)    on which the client in fact relied in good faith.


917A(2)    


In this Division, a reference to a representative ' s conduct being within authority in relation to a particular financial services licensee is, subject to subsection (3), a reference to:

(a)    if the representative is an employee of the licensee or of a related body corporate of the licensee - conduct being within the scope of the employee ' s employment; or

(b)    if the representative is a director of the licensee or of a related body corporate of the licensee - conduct being within the scope of the director ' s duties as director; or

(c)    in any other case - conduct being within the scope of the authority given by the licensee.


917A(3)    
If:

(a)    a person is the representative of more than one financial services licensee in respect of a particular class of financial service; and

(b)    the person engages in conduct relating to that class of service; and

(ba)    the conduct relates to a particular kind of financial product prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of paragraph 917C(3)(ba) ; and

(c)    any one or more of the licensees issues or transfers a financial product of that kind as a result of the conduct;

then, for the purposes of this Division:

(d)    

the person is taken, in respect of the conduct, to have acted within authority in relation to the licensee or to each licensee who issued or transferred a financial product of that kind as a result of the conduct; and

(e)    

the person is, in respect of the conduct, taken not to have acted within authority in relation to any licensee who did not issue or transfer a financial product of that kind as a result of the conduct.

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