Business Names Registration (Application of Consequential Amendments) Act 2011

No. 172, 2011

An Act to deal with consequential matters in connection with the Business Names Registration Act 2011 and the Business Names Registration (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2011, and for related purposes

[Assented to 5 December 2011]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Business Names Registration (Application of Consequential Amendments) Act 2011.

2 Commencement

(1) Each provision of this Act 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.

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 this Act receives the Royal Assent.	5 December 2011
2. Section 4	At the same time as Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Business Names Registration (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2011 commences.	20 April 2012
3. Schedule 1	At the same time as Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Business Names Registration (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2011 commences.	20 April 2012

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, 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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

4 Dictionary

In this Act:

ASIC means the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Australian Business Register means the register established under section 24 of the A New Tax System (Australian Business Number) Act 1999.

Business Names Registration Consequential Act means the Business Names Registration (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2011.

change‑over day means the day on which Part 2 of the Business Names Registration Act 2011 commences.

Registrar means the Registrar of the Australian Business Register.

Schedule 1—Application of consequential amendments

1 Application of amendment to the A New Tax System (Australian Business Number) Act 1999

The amendment made by item 1 of Schedule 2 to the Business Names Registration Consequential Act applies in relation to the following:

(a) copies of entries in the Australian Business Register given to a person by the Registrar on or after the change‑over day;

(b) applications made on or after the change‑over day for a detail not to be disclosed in a copy of an entry in the Australian Business Register.

2 Application of amendments to the ANL Act 1956 and the Bank Integration Act 1991

The amendments made by items 2, 3, 8 and 9 of Schedule 2 to the Business Names Registration Consequential Act apply in relation to things done on or after the change‑over day.

3 Application of amendments to the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006

The amendments made by items 10 to 13 of Schedule 2 to the Business Names Registration Consequential Act apply in relation to the availability of names on or after the change‑over day.

4 Application of amendments to the Corporations Act 2001

(1) The amendments made by items 15, 16, 17 and 19 of Schedule 2 to the Business Names Registration Consequential Act apply in relation to the availability of names on or after the change‑over day.

(2) The amendments made by items 18 and 20 of Schedule 2 to the Business Names Registration Consequential Act apply in relation to things done on or after the change‑over day.

5 Application of amendments to the Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988

The amendments made by items 22 and 23 of Schedule 2 to the Business Names Registration Consequential Act apply in relation to accounts opened on or after the change‑over day.

6 Application of amendments to the Defence Service Homes Act 1918, the Olympic Insignia Protection Act 1987 and the Wine Australia Corporation Act 1980

The amendments made by items 21, 24 and 26 of Schedule 2 to the Business Names Registration Consequential Act apply in relation to the use of names on or after the change‑over day.

7 Application of amendment to the Qantas Sale Act 1992

The amendment made by item 25 of Schedule 2 to the Business Names Registration Consequential Act applies on and after the change‑over day.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

Senate on 3 November 2011

House of Representatives on 23 November 2011]

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