Corporations Regulations 2001

CHAPTER 7 - FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS  

PART 7.1 - PRELIMINARY  

Division 3 - When does a person provide a financial service?  

REGULATION 7.1.30  

7.1.30   INFORMATION AND ADVICE ABOUT VOTING  


For paragraph 766A(2)(b) of the Act, a circumstance in which a person is taken not to provide a financial service within the meaning of paragraph 766A(1)(a) of the Act is that:

(a)    the service provided by the person consists only of advising another person in relation to the manner in which:


(i) voting rights attaching to securities; or

(ii) voting rights attaching to interests in managed investment schemes;
may or should be exercised; and

(b)    the advice is not intended to influence any decision in relation to financial products other than a decision about voting; and

(c)    the advice could not be reasonably be regarded as intended to influence a decision in relation to financial products, other than a decision about voting; and

(d)    the advice does not relate to a vote that relates to a dealing in financial products.

Note: A service that includes advice which is intended to influence the decision to acquire securities in another company would be not provided in circumstances covered by this regulation.


 

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