Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CORPORATIONS ACT 1989 No. 109 of 1989 - SECT 242

242. (1) A company shall keep a register of its directors, its principal
executive officer and its secretaries.

(2) The register shall contain with respect to each director his or her
consent in writing to appointment as such and shall specify:

   (a)  the present Christian or given name and surname, any former Christian
        or given name or surname, the date and place of birth, the usual
        residential address, and the business occupation (if any), of the
        director; and

   (b)  particulars of directorships held by the director in other bodies
        corporate that under this Act or the law of any State or Territory are
        public companies or subsidiaries of public companies; but it is not
        necessary for the register to contain particulars of directorships
        held by a director of a body corporate in a related body corporate.

(3) Where a person is a director in one or more subsidiaries of the same
holding company, it is sufficient compliance with the provisions of subsection
(2) if it is disclosed that the person is the holder of one or more
directorships in that group of companies and the group may be described by the
name of the holding company with the addition of the word "Group".

(4) The register shall specify with respect to the principal executive officer
and each secretary his or her full name, date and place of birth, address and
other occupation (if any) and shall contain his or her consent in writing to
appointment as principal executive officer or secretary, as the case may be.

(5) The register shall be open for inspection:

   (a)  by any member of the company-without charge; and

   (b)  by any other person-on payment for each inspection of such amount, not
        exceeding the prescribed amount, as the company requires or, where the
        company does not require the payment of an amount, without charge.

(6) A person may request a company to give to the person a copy of the
register or any part of the register and, where such a request is made, the
company shall send the copy to the person:

   (a)  if the company requires payment of an amount not exceeding the
        prescribed amount-within 21 days after payment of the amount is
        received by the company or within such longer period as the Commission
        approves; or

   (b)  otherwise-within 21 days after the request is made or within such
        longer period as the Commission approves.

(7) The company shall lodge:

   (a)  within one month after incorporation, or registration under this Act-a
        return in the prescribed form containing the particulars required to
        be specified in the register;

   (b)  within one month after a person ceases to be, or is appointed, a
        director of the company-a return in the prescribed form notifying the
        Commission of the change and containing, with respect to each person
        who is, at the time of lodgment of the return, a director of the
        company, the particulars required to be specified in the register;

   (c)  within one month after a person is appointed the principal executive
        officer, or a secretary, of the company-a return in the prescribed
        form notifying the Commission of that fact and specifying the full
        name, date and place of birth, address and other occupation (if any)
        of that person; and

   (d)  within one month after a person ceases to be the principal executive
        officer, or a secretary, of the company-a return in the prescribed
        form notifying the Commission of that fact.

(8) The Commission may at any time, by written notice to a person who appears
to the Commission from returns lodged with the Commission under this section
or section 335 to be a director, the principal executive officer or a
secretary of a company, require the person to lodge with the Commission,
within a period specified in the notice, a notice in the prescribed form
stating whether the person is such a director, principal executive officer or
secretary and, if the person has ceased to be such a director, principal
executive officer or secretary, specifying the date on which the person so
ceased, and, where a person receives such a notice, the person shall comply
with the notice.

(9) A certificate of the Commission stating that, from any return or notice
lodged with the Commission under this section or section 335, or from any
return or notice in the possession of the Commission that was lodged with
another authority under a corresponding law, it appears that at any time
specified in the certificate, or throughout a period specified in the
certificate, a person was a director, the principal executive officer or a
secretary of a specified company shall, in all courts and by all persons
having power to take evidence for the purposes of this Act, be received as
prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.

(10) For the purposes of subsection (9), a person who appears from any return
or notice lodged with or in the possession of the Commission to be a director,
the principal executive officer or a secretary of a company shall be deemed to
continue as such until, from a return or notice subsequently lodged with or
coming into the possession of the Commission, it appears that the person has
ceased to be such a director, principal executive officer or secretary.

(11) In this section:

"appointed" includes re-appointed.