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CORPORATIONS ACT 1989 No. 109 of 1989 - SECT 715

Company to keep register of substantial shareholders
715. (1) A company shall keep a register in which it shall as soon as
practicable enter:

   (a)  in alphabetical order the names of persons from whom it has received
        notices under section 709 or a corresponding law; and

   (b)  against each name so entered, the information given in the notice and,
        where it has received a notice under section 710 or 711 or a
        corresponding law, the information given in that notice.

(2) 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.

(3) 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 that person:

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

   (b)  in a case to which paragraph (a) does not apply-before the end of 21
        days after the day on which the request is made or within such longer
        period as the Commission approves.

(4) A company is not, because of anything done under this Part:

   (a)  to be taken for any purpose to have notice of; or

   (b)  put upon inquiry as to; a right of a person to or in relation to a
        share in the company. 


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