Corporations Amendment (Name Exemption) Regulations 2019

(F2019L00271)

8 March 2019

Corporations Act 2001

1   Name

This instrument is the Corporations Amendment (Name Exemption) Regulations 2019.

2   Commencement

 

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

      

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3   Authority

This instrument is made under the Corporations Act 2001.

4   Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1   Amendments

Corporations Regulations 2001

1   After regulation 2B.6.02

Insert:

2B.6.02A Exemption from requirement to include "Limited" in name

(1) For the purposes of subsections 5H(5) and 5I(1) of the Act, subsection 148(2) of the Act does not apply in relation to Westpac Banking Corporation (ABN 33 007 457 141).

(2) For the purposes of subsection 5I(1) of the Act, the Westpac Banking Corporation (Transfer of Incorporation) Act 2000 (NSW) is the specified law.

Schedule 2   Repeals

Corporations (Change of Incorporation) Regulations 2002

1   The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.