Corporations (Stay on Enforcing Certain Rights) Amendment (Corporate Insolvency Reforms) Declaration 2020
I, Josh Frydenberg, Treasurer, make the following declaration.
Josh Frydenberg
Treasurer
Contents
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Corporations (Stay on Enforcing Certain Rights) Declaration 2018
This instrument is the Corporations (Stay on Enforcing Certain Rights) Amendment (Corporate Insolvency Reforms) Declaration 2020.
(1) Each provision of this instrument 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.
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
This instrument is made under the Corporations Act 2001.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Corporations (Stay on Enforcing Certain Rights) Declaration 2018
1 Section 3
Omit “and 451E(6)”, substitute “, 451E(6) and 454N(6)”.
2 Section 4 (definition of specified person)
Omit “or 451E(1)”, substitute “, 451E(1) or 454N(1)”.
3 After subsection 5(3)
Insert:
(3A) The kinds of rights referred to in subsection (4) of this section are declared under paragraph 454N(6)(b) of the Act to be kinds of rights to which subsection 454N(1) of the Act does not apply.
4 Subparagraph 5(4)(g)(ii)
Omit “in subsection 6(1), (2) or (3)”, substitute “in subsection 6(1), (2), (3) or (3A)”.
5 Paragraph 5(4)(g)
Omit “in subsection 6(1), (2) or (3)”, substitute “in subsection 6(1), (2), (3) or (3A)”.
6 After paragraph 5(4)(k)
Insert:
; (l) a right to enforce a possessory security interest in circumstances where paragraphs 453X(b), (c) and (d) of the Act are satisfied.
7 After subsection 5(6)
Insert:
(7) For the purposes of paragraph (4)(l), the reference to the company in paragraph 453X(b) of the Act is taken to be a reference to the specified person.
8 After subsection 6(3)
Insert:
(3A) A right to appoint a controller of property of the specified person is declared under paragraph 454N(6)(c) of the Act to be a kind of right to which subsection 454N(1) of the Act does not apply in the circumstances specified in subsection (4) of this section.