Commonwealth Numbered Regulations Commonwealth Numbered Regulations(1) A request under section 89:
(a) must be in writing; and
(b) must be in a form approved, in writing, by the Regulator; and
(c) if the applicant is not an individual--must nominate one or more individuals as authorised representatives of the applicant for the Register account; and
(d) if the applicant is an individual--may include such a nomination; and
(e) for each individual nominated as an authorised representative of the applicant for the Register account--must include evidence that the individual has sufficient authority to act on the applicant's behalf in respect of the account; and
(f) must include identity evidence for:
(i) the applicant; and
(ii) each individual nominated as an authorised representative of the applicant for the Register account; and
(iii) if identity evidence for an individual is required under paragraph 123(1)(c) or 124(c) or (d)--each such individual; and
(g) subject to subsection (2), if:
(i) the applicant is a proprietary or private company; and
(ii) an owner (a beneficial owner ) in relation to the company is an individual who owns, through one or more shareholdings, over 25% of the issued capital in the company;
must include the name and address of each beneficial owner of the applicant.
(2) Paragraph (1)(g) does not apply to a proprietary company if the company is:
(a) a publicly listed company in Australia, or a wholly owned subsidiary of such a company; or
(b) licensed and subject to the regulatory oversight of a Commonwealth statutory regulator in relation to its activities as a company.
(3) The approved form may require the following information to be provided if the information is relevant to the applicant, or an authorised representative, officer, employee or trustee of the applicant:
(a) a person's full name, address and contact details;
(b) a person's business name and, if different, trading name;
(c) the address of a person's principal place of business;
(d) a person's ABN, ACN, ARBN, GST registration number, Indigenous corporation number or other unique number;
(e) an individual's date of birth and residential address;
(f) each name by which an individual is known by;
(g) a person's status as one of the following:
(i) an individual, including an individual who is a sole trader;
(ii) a body corporate;
(iii) a trust;
(iv) a corporation sole;
(v) a body politic;
(vi) a local governing body;
(vii) any other kind of entity;
(h) if subparagraph (g)(vii) applies--the kind of entity the person is;
(i) a description of the form in which a body corporate has been incorporated;
(j) a description of the type of trust a trust is;
(k) the full name and date of birth of the beneficiaries of a trust;
(l) details about a class of which beneficiaries of a trust are members;
(m) each jurisdiction in which a person operates;
(n) the full name, address and contact details of any Australian agent through which a body corporate that is a foreign person conducts business.
Note 1: The Regulator may require further information in connection with the request: see section 128.
Note 2: The approved form of application may provide for verification by statutory declaration of statements in the request: see section 129.