Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CORPORATIONS ACT 1989 No. 109 of 1989 - SECT 165

165. (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person shall not be taken to have
knowledge of:

   (a)  a company's memorandum or articles or any of the contents of a
        company's memorandum or articles;

   (b)  a document or the contents of a document; or

   (c)  any particulars; merely because of either or both of the following:

   (d)  the memorandum, the articles, the document or the particulars has or
        have been lodged with the Commission, or lodged with a person under a
        law corresponding to a provision of this Act;

   (e)  the memorandum, the articles, the document or the particulars is or
        are referred to in any other document that has been lodged with the
        Commission, or lodged with a person under a law corresponding to a
        provision of this Act.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a document, or in relation to
the contents of a document, that has been lodged under Division 2 of Part 3.5,
or with a person under a law corresponding to that Division, to the extent
that the document relates to a charge that is registrable under that Division
or law.