Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FOREIGN CORPORATIONS (APPLICATION OF LAWS) ACT 1989 No. 183 of 1989 - SECT 8

8. Where an act of a foreign state, or an entity of a foreign state:

   (a)  purports to affect a foreign corporation or its assets or dealings;
        and

   (b)  the act is based on, or derives from, the assertion of sovereignty or
        other authority over the place in which the foreign corporation was
        incorporated; the act is not to be recognised, or in any way given
        effect to, under Australian law unless it is recognised, and would be
        given effect to, under the law applied by the people in the place in
        which the foreign corporation was incorporated.