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CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 - SECT 1462

Audit reforms in Schedule 1 to the amending Act (auditor independence)

  (1)   Section   307C applies to a financial report for financial years that start on or after 1   July 2004.

  (2)   Division   3 of Part   2M.4 applies to:

  (a)   an audit of the financial report for a financial year; or

  (b)   an audit or review of the financial report for a half - year in a financial year;

if the financial year begins on or after 1   July 2004.

  (2A)   The following provisions of the old Act continue to apply to an audit of the financial report for a financial year, or an audit or review of the financial report for a half - year in a financial year, if the financial year begins before 1   July 2004:

  (a)   subsections   324(1) to (6) (inclusive) (other than paragraphs 324(1)(d) and (2)(d) and (e));

  (b)   subsection   324(11);

  (c)   subsection   327(4);

  (d)   section   331AA (other than paragraphs 331AA(1)(d) and (2)(d) and (e)).

Subsection   331AA(4) of the old Act continues to apply as if the references in that subsection to subsections   324(7), (8), (9), (10) and (16) were omitted.

  (3)   Division   3 of Part   2M.4 applies to all relationships that exist on or after the Schedule   1 commencement between an auditor and an audited body (including a relationship that exists because of circumstances that came into existence before the Schedule   1 commencement).

  (4)   Without limiting subsection   (3), the items in the table in subsection   324CH(1) apply to circumstances that exist on or after the Schedule   1 commencement (including circumstances that exist because of events that occurred before the Schedule   1 commencement).

  (5)   Item   9 of the table in subsection   324CE(5) applies to a person who ceases to be a professional employee of the individual auditor concerned on or after the Schedule   1 commencement.

  (6)   Item   10 of the table in subsection   324CE(5) applies to a person who ceases to own the business of the individual auditor concerned on or after the Schedule   1 commencement.

  (7)   Item   11 of the table in subsection   324CF(5) applies to a person who ceases to be a member of the audit firm concerned on or after the Schedule   1 commencement.

  (8)   Item   12 of the table in subsection   324CF(5) applies to a person who ceases to be a professional employee of the auditor firm concerned on or after the Schedule   1 commencement.

  (9)   Item   11 of the table in subsection   324CG(9) applies to a person who ceases to be an officer of the audit company concerned on or after the Schedule   1 commencement.

  (10)   Item   12 of the table in subsection   324CG(9) applies to a person who ceases to be a professional employee of the audit company concerned on or after the Schedule   1 commencement.

  (11)   Section   324CI applies only if the relevant departure time for the purposes of that section occurs on or after the Schedule   1 commencement.

  (12)   Section   324CJ applies only if the relevant departure time for the purposes of that section occurs on or after the Schedule   1 commencement.

  (13)   Section   324CK applies to a person only if:

  (a)   the person is on the Schedule   1 commencement, or becomes after the Schedule   1 commencement, a member of the audit firm concerned or a director of the audit company concerned; and

  (b)   becomes an officer of the audited body concerned on or after the Schedule   1 commencement.


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