Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated RegulationsFees
(1) For subsection 5 (1) of the Corporations (Review Fees) Act 2003 , fees are prescribed in relation to review dates for a company, registered scheme or notified foreign passport fund mentioned in an item of Part 1 of Schedule 1 if the fees are to be paid annually.
(2) For subsection 5 (1) of the Corporations (Review Fees) Act 2003 :
(a) fees are prescribed in relation to review dates for a company, registered scheme or notified foreign passport fund mentioned in an item of Part 1A of Schedule 1 if the fees are to be paid before the conduct of the review; and
(b) a company, registered scheme or notified foreign passport fund that pays the fee specified in this regulation before the conduct of the review is not required to pay another fee in relation to review dates for the period of 10 years starting when the company, registered scheme or notified foreign passport fund pays the fee.
(3) For subsection 5 (1) of the Corporations (Review Fees) Act 2003 , fees are specified in relation to review dates for a company, registered scheme or notified foreign passport fund in the circumstances mentioned in column 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 1.
Amount of fees
(4) For subsection 6 (1) of the Corporations (Review Fees) Act 2003 , the amount of a review fee for a company, registered scheme or notified foreign passport fund is:
(a) if subregulation 5 (2) applies to the fee--zero; and
(b) if subregulation (5), (6) or (7) applies--the lesser of:
(i) the amount specified in that subregulation; and
(ii) $10 000.
Note: Regulation 5 applies if the effect of a change of review date is that there will be 2 review dates for the company, scheme or fund in a financial year.
(5) In the financial year starting on 1 July 2011, the amount of a review fee is the amount mentioned in column 3 of each item of Schedule 1 that relates to the company or registered scheme.
(6) In the financial year starting on 1 July 2012, or a subsequent 1 July, if the latest CPI number is greater than the earlier CPI number, the amount of a review fee for a company, registered scheme or notified foreign passport fund is the amount worked out using the formula:
where:
"previous indexable amount" is the amount of the review fee for the company, registered scheme or notified foreign passport fund that was applicable immediately before that 1 July.
(7) In the financial year starting on 1 July 2012, or a subsequent 1 July, if the latest CPI number is not greater than the earlier CPI number, the amount of a review fee for a company, registered scheme or notified foreign passport fund is the amount of the review fee that was applicable immediately before that 1 July.
(7A) In the financial year starting on 1 July 2018, the review fee for a proprietary company is the amount worked out under subregulation (6) or (7) (as the case requires) increased by $4.
Note: This increase will be reflected in subsequent financial years, as part of the review fee for the preceding financial year.
(8) If, apart from this subregulation, the amount specified under subregulation (6) would be an amount of dollars and cents, the amount is to be rounded to the nearest whole dollar and, if the amount to be rounded is 50 cents, rounded down.
(9) For this regulation:
(a) if the Australian Statistician publishes a CPI number for a March quarter in substitution for a CPI number previously published by the Australian Statistician for that quarter, the publication of the later CPI number must be disregarded; and
(b) if the Australian Statistician changes the reference base for the Consumer Price Index, then, after the change is made, regard must be had only to the CPI numbers published using the new reference base.
(10) In this regulation:
"CPI number" means the All Groups Consumer Price Index number (being the weighted average of the 8 Australian capital cities) published by the Australian Statistician.
"earlier CPI number" is the CPI number for the March quarter 2 financial years before the relevant financial year begins.
"latest CPI number" is the CPI number for the last March quarter before the relevant financial year begins.