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FINANCIAL SERVICES REFORM (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL 2002

2002

The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia

THE SENATE




Presented and read a first time









Financial Services Reform (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2002

No. , 2002

(Treasury)



A Bill for an Act to amend the Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997 and the Corporations Act 2001, and for related purposes



Contents


A Bill for an Act to amend the Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997 and the Corporations Act 2001, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Financial Services Reform (Consequential Provisions) Act 2002.

2 Commencement

(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, on the day or at the time specified in column 2 of the table.

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provision(s)

Commencement

Date/Details

1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table

The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent


2. Schedule 1

Immediately after the commencement of the Family Law Legislation Amendment (Superannuation) Act 2001


3. Schedule 2

Immediately after the commencement of item 329 of Schedule 1 to the Financial Services Reform Act 2001


Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.

(2) Column 3 of the table is for additional information that is not part of this Act. This information may be included in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997


1 Subsection 41(5)

Omit “subsections (1) and (3)”, substitute “this section”.

2 At the end of section 41

Add:

(6) This section does not apply to a charge or assignment that is permitted, whether expressly or by necessary implication, by the regulations.

Schedule 2—Corporations Act 2001


1 Before section 97

Insert:

95A Solvency and insolvency

(1) A person is solvent if, and only if, the person is able to pay all the person’s debts, as and when they become due and payable.

(2) A person who is not solvent is insolvent.

 


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