Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The platform operator must not accept the benefit if it is a volume - based shelf - space fee.
Note: This subsection is a civil penalty provision (see section 1317E).
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the benefit is presumed to be a volume - based shelf - space fee if the benefit, or the value of benefit, is wholly or partly dependent on the total number or value of the funds manager's financial products of a particular class, or particular classes, to which the custodial arrangement relates.
(3) If it is proved that all or part of the benefit is of a kind specified in one of the following paragraphs then, to the extent that the benefit is of that kind, it is not presumed to be a volume - based shelf space fee:
(a) a reasonable fee for a service provided to the funds manager by the platform operator or another person;
(b) a discount on an amount payable, or a rebate of an amount
paid, to the funds manager by the platform operator, the value of which does
not exceed an amount that may reasonably be attributed to efficiencies gained
by the funds manager because of the number or value of financial products in
relation to which the funds manager provides services to the platform
operator, or through the platform operator to another person.