(1) ASIC must keep a register to be known as the Australian Register of Company Charges. (2) Where a notice in respect of a charge on property of a company that is required by section 263 or 264 to be lodged is lodged (whether during or after the period within which the notice was required to be lodged) and the notice contains all the particulars required by the relevant section to be included in the notice, ASIC must as soon as practicable cause to be entered in the Register the time and date when the notice was lodged and the following particulars in relation to the charge:
(3) Subject to subsection (9), where particulars in respect of a charge are entered in the Register in accordance with subsection (2), the charge is taken to be registered, and to have been registered from and including the time and date entered in the Register under that subsection. (4) Where:
(5) Where:
(6) Where a document that purports to be a notice in respect of a charge on property of a company for the purposes of section 263 or 264 is lodged (whether during or after the period within which the notice was required to be lodged) and the document contains the name of the company concerned and the particulars referred to in subparagraph 263(1)(a)(vii) or (viii), as the case requires, but does not contain some or all of the other particulars that are required to be included in the notice or is otherwise defective:
(7) Where ASIC gives a direction to a person under paragraph (6)(b) in relation to a charge:
(8) ASIC may enter in the Register in relation to a charge, in addition to the particulars expressly required by this section to be entered, such other particulars as ASIC thinks fit. (9) If the word "provisional" is entered in the Register in relation to an entry specifying a time and day in relation to a charge, the charge is taken not to have been registered but:
(10) Where, pursuant to subsection 263(3), a registrable body lodges notices relating to 2 or more charges on the same property of the registrable body, the time and day that must be entered in the Register in relation to each of those charges are the time and day when the first notice was lodged. (11) Where, in accordance with subsection (10), the time and day that are entered in the Register are the same in relation to 2 or more charges on property of a registrable body, those charges have, as between themselves, the respective priorities that they would have had if they had not been registered under this Part. (12) Where, pursuant to section 264, a company lodges notices relating to 2 or more charges on the same property acquired by the company (being charges that are not already registered under this Part), the time and day that must be entered in the Register in relation to each of those charges are the time and day when the first notice was lodged. (13) Where, in accordance with subsection (12), the time and day that are entered in the Register are the same in relation to 2 or more charges on property acquired by a company, those charges have, as between themselves, the respective priorities that they would have had if they had not been registered under this Part. (14) Where a notice is lodged under section 268 (whether during or after the period within which it was required to be lodged), ASIC must as soon as practicable cause to be entered in the Register the time and day when the notice was so lodged and the particulars set out in the notice.