Legislation, Policy & Links: Overview

• Legislation
• Policy and commentary
• Other useful links

Legislation

• Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (Cth) (consolidated)

• Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (consolidated)

• Financial Services Reform Act 2001 (Cth)

• Financial Services Reform Amendment Act 2003 (Cth)

• Financial Services Reform (Consequential Provisions) Act 2001 (Cth)

• Financial Services Reform (Consequential Provisions) Act 2002 (Cth)

• Australian Securities and Investments Commission Regulations 2001 (Cth) (consolidated)

• Corporations Regulations 2001 (Cth) (consolidated)

• Payment Systems and Netting Regulations 2001  (Cth) (consolidated)

• Corporations (Consequential Amendments) Act (No 3) 2001 (WA)

• Corporations (Financial Services Reform Amendments) Act 2002 (NT)
• Corporations (Financial Services Reform Amendments) Act 2002 (Vic)
• Financial Services Reform (Consequential Amendments) Act 2002 (NSW)

• Financial Services Reform (Consequential Amendments) Act 2002 (Qld)

• Statutes Amendment (Corporations – Financial Services Reform) Act 2002 (SA) – link currently unavailable

• Explanatory Memoranda for Commonwealth legislation (links to SCALEplus)
• Explanatory Statements for Commonwealth statutory rules (links to SCALEplus)

• Press releases from the offices of the Treasury Ministers

• Parliamentary Joint Statutory Committee Report on the Draft Bill (August 2000) (pdf)

• Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services Report (pdf) on Corporations Amendment Regulations 2003 (Batch 6), Corporations Amendment Regulations 2003/04 (Batch 7) and Draft Regulations - Corporations Amendment Regulations 2004 (Batch 8) (24 March 2004)

• Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services Report (pdf) on FSR regulations 7.1.29A, 7.1.35A and 7.1.40(h) (2 June 2004)

• Senate Joint Committee Report (pdf) on Regulations and ASIC Policy Statements made under the FSR Act (October 2002)

• Other Joint Statutory Committee articles & reports

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Policy and commentary

• ASIC policy and guidelines on the ASIC site

• ASIC policy statements and class orders

• Our report: Financial Services Reform Update - The Dollar Disclosure Regulations

• Our report: Financial Services Reform Update - Fee disclosure

You may also be interested in previous reports and commentaries we have written on FSR implementation and other important issues that have affected our clients since FSR commenced.

Other useful links

• Allens Anti-money Laundering site
• Federal Treasury's FSR page
• ASIC's FSR page
• Investment & Financial Services Association
• Australian Financial Markets Association
• Australian Bankers' Association
• CCH – FSR articles, legislation and explanations (members only)

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