Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COMPANIES (ACQUISITION OF SHARES) ACT 1980 No. 64 of 1980 - SECT 56

56. (1) Where a document (not being a document that is required to be signed)
is required by a provision of this Act, or of a regulation made for the
purposes of sub-section 62 (3) or (4), to be served on a stock exchange, the
document may be served by sending to the stock exchange, by telegraph, telex
or other similar means of communication, a message to the effect of the
document.

(2) Where a document is required by a provision of this Act, or of a
regulation made for the purposes of sub-section 62 (3) or (4), to be served on
a stock exchange or lodged with the Commission on a particular day-

   (a)  if that day is not a trading day of that stock exchange-the document
        shall be served on that stock exchange on the next day that is a
        trading day of that stock exchange; or

   (b)  if the office of the Commission is not open on that day-the document
        shall be lodged at that office on the next day on which that office is
        open.

(3) Where a person is required by a provision of this Act to lodge with the
Commission or serve on a stock exchange a copy of a notice dispatched by the
person, it is not necessary for the copy to include the name or address of the
person to whom the notice was dispatched.

(4) Where by a provision of this Act a person is required to cause a notice to
be published in a newspaper and, due to circumstances beyond his control, the
notice is not published in accordance with the provision, the provision shall
be deemed to have been complied with if the person-

   (a)  did all things that would, but for those circumstances, have resulted
        in publication of the notice in accordance with the provision; and

   (b)  caused the notice to be published on the first practicable date after
        those circumstances ceased to exist.