Part II
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Provisions relating to the carrying on of banking business
Division 2
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Protection of depositors
Subdivision B
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Provisions dealing with control of a body corporate
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s business by a Banking Act statutory manager
History
Subdiv B heading substituted by No 10 of 2018, s 3 and Sch 1 item 104, effective 5 March 2018. For application provisions, see note under Subdiv
D
heading of Pt II Div 1BA. The heading formerly read:
Subdivision B
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Provisions dealing with control of an ADI
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s business by an ADI statutory manager
SECTION 15C
Certain circumstances not grounds for denial of obligations
(1)
This section applies if a body corporate is party to a contract, whether the proper law of the contract is:
(a)
Australian law (including the law of a State or Territory); or
(b)
law of a foreign country (including the law of part of a foreign country).
(2)
None of the matters mentioned in subsection (3) allow the contract, or a party to the contract (other than the body corporate), to do any of the following:
(a)
deny any obligations under the contract;
(b)
accelerate any debt under the contract;
(c)
close out any transaction relating to the contract;
(d)
enforce any security under the contract.
This subsection has effect subject to section
31B
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(3)
The matters are as follows:
(a)
a Banking Act statutory manager being in control, or being appointed to take control, of the business of the body corporate;
(b)
if the body corporate is a member of a relevant group of bodies corporate
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a Banking Act statutory manager being in control, or being appointed to take control, of the business of another member of the group.
History
S 15C substituted by No 10 of 2018, s 3 and Sch 1 item 191, effective 5 March 2018. For application provisions, see note under Subdiv
D
heading of Pt II Div 1BA. S 15C formerly read:
SECTION 15C ADI statutory manager being in control not grounds for denial of obligations
(1)
This section applies if an ADI is party to a contract, whether the proper law of the contract is Australian law (including the law of a State or Territory) or law of a foreign country (including the law of part of a foreign country).
(2)
The fact that an ADI statutory manager is in control of the ADI
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s business does not allow the contract, or a party to the contract, to do any of the following:
(a)
deny any obligations under that contract;
(b)
accelerate any debt under that contract;
(c)
close out any transaction relating to that contract;
(d)
enforce any security under that contract.
This subsection has effect subject to section 31B.
History
S 15C(2) amended by No 43 of 2016, s 3 and Sch 1 item 39, by inserting para (d) and
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This subsection has effect subject to section 31B.
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, applicable in relation to the enforcement of a security after 1 June 2016, even if the security was given before 1 June 2016.
S 15C and 15D substituted for s 15C by No 105 of 2008, s 3 and Sch 2 item 18, applicable to contracts made after 18 October 2008. S 15C formerly read:
SECTION 15C ADI statutory manager being in control not grounds for denial of obligations
15C
The fact that an ADI statutory manager is in control of an ADI
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s business is not a ground for any other party to a contract to which the ADI is a party to deny any obligations under that contract, accelerate any debt under that contract or close out any transaction relating to that contract.