Corporations Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 4) (126 of 2003)

Schedule 1   Amendments

[10]   After regulation 10.2.48

insert

10.2.48A? Obligation to give a Financial Services Guide for a custodial and depository service

(1) For section 1444 of the Act, sections 941A and 941B of the Act are taken not to require a person to give a Financial Services Guide to a client, in accordance with Division 2 of Part 7.7 of the Act, in relation to a financial service (the new financial service ), if:

(a) the new financial service constitutes:

(i) the provision of a custodial or depository service under section 766E of the Act; or

(ii) dealing in a financial product that is held on trust for or on behalf of the client as a necessary part of the custodial or depository service; or

(iii) issuing, to the client, a financial product that is a beneficial interest in a financial product held on trust for or on behalf of the client as a necessary part of the custodial or depository service; and

(b) the person entered into the arrangement under which the custodial or depository service is provided, before the FSR commencement; and

(c) the arrangement continued unaltered after the person became subject to Part 7.7 of the Act.

(2) For paragraph (1) (c), an arrangement is taken to continue unaltered if:

(a) the person holds, under the arrangement, financial products that are different financial products from those held under the arrangement before the person became subject to Part 7.7 of the Act; and

(b) none of the different financial products is held on instruction from the client.

(3) Subparagraph (1) (a) (ii) does not apply to dealing in a financial product if the dealing consists of the issue of a financial product to a person other than the client to whom the custodial or depository service is provided.