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1986 No. 136 COMPANIES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 3
Schedule 2
3. Schedule 2 to the Companies Regulations is amended by omitting Forms 66 and
67 and substituting the following form:
COMPANIES FORM 66 Sub-section 263
(1)
ANNUAL RETURN OF A COMPANY
FOR FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED ON (Insert date)
Registered No.: Regulation
56A Please refer to the accompanying DIRECTIONS before completing this form.
1. COMPANY'S FULL NAME: 2. CLASS OF COMPANY: *Public *Exempt proprietary
*Non-exempt proprietary
In the case of an exempt proprietary company, was the company exempt
throughout the financial year to which this return relates? *YES *NO 3.
PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES: 4. ADDRESS OF REGISTERED OFFICE: 5. PARTICIPATING STATES
OR TERRITORIES AND PRINCIPAL OFFICES
(a) List each participating State and Territory in which the name of the
company is registered:
(b) State the address of the company's principal office in each
participating State and Territory in which the company has a place of
business or carries on business: 6. DIRECTORS, PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE
OFFICER AND SECRETARIES:
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Full name of
officer Usual residential
address Date &
place of
birth Office held
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7. NAME OF AUDITOR:
Address of principal place of practice in Australia:
8. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING *Date held: *Not yet held:
If the company has been granted an extension of time to hold the annual
general meeting, set out the date to which the time has been extended: 9.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING FOR PREVIOUS FINANCIAL YEAR:
Where the annual general meeting for the financial year immediately preceding
the financial year to which this annual return relates had not been held
before or on the date to which the last annual return was made up, state the
date on which the meeting was held:
10. NUMBER OF SHARES ISSUED: UNCALLED CAPITAL: PAID UP CAPITAL:
$ $
11. LIST OF MEMBERS
In the case of a no liability company or a public company to which sub-section
265 (1) or (1A) applies, the list need not be supplied but state the address
at which the principal register is kept.
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Total:
Full name Address No. of shares
held
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12. NAME OF COMPANY'S ULTIMATE HOLDING COMPANY:PLACE OF INCORPORATION:
13. BUSINESS NAMES STATES OR TERRITORIES
under which the company carries on business: in which each of those names is
registered: 14. KEY FINANCIAL DATA
(a) as at the end of the financial year: current assets $current
liabilities $
share capital & reserves $ other assets $ other liabilities $ net tangible
assets $
(b) for the financial year: operating profit and extraordinary items after
income tax $ 15. AUDITOR'S REPORT
If an auditor was appointed, did the report of the auditors of the company for
the financial year include a statement of reasons for the auditor not being
satisfied as to any matter referred to in paragraph 285 (3) (a), (b) or (c) or
a statement of particulars of any deficiency, failure or shortcoming in
respect of any matter referred to in sub-section 285 (4)? *YES *NO
Where an exempt proprietary company appointed an auditor and that auditor's
report for the financial year included either, or both, of those statements,
attach a copy of that auditor's report in accordance with sub-paragraph 56A
(b) (i) of the Companies Regulations. 16. DECLARATION
I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief-
(a) the information contained in this return is correct at the date of
signing;
*(b) the information in the accompanying STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN PARTICULARS
SHOWN ON ANNUAL RETURN correctly records changes that have occurred up to date
of signing this return and which, in the case of Items 4-7 inclusive, have not
previously been lodged with the Commission;
*(c) the key financial data in Item 14 have been accurately extracted from
accounting records kept in accordance with sub-section 267 (1);
**(d) there are reasonable grounds to believe that the company will be able to
pay its debts as and when they fall due; and
(e) this declaration is made pursuant to a resolution of the board of
directors of the company which adopted the contents of this annual
return.
Dated this day of 19 .
Signature of *Director *Secretary *Principal Executive Officer
Name of signatory in block letters:
*Strike out whichever is not applicable. **Strike out if directors are unable
to form an opinion in respect of this matter.
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STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN PARTICULARS SHOWN ON ANNUAL RETURN
FOR FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED ON (Insert date) 1. COMPANY NAME
The company has changed its name to: 2. CLASS OF COMPANY HAS CHANGED TO:
*Public *Exempt proprietary *Non-exempt proprietary
3. PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES HAVE CHANGED TO: 4. REGISTERED OFFICE
New address in full: (1)Date of change:
New office hours are:Date of change: 5. PARTICIPATING STATES OR TERRITORIES
AND PRINCIPAL OFFICES
(a) The company no longer desires to have its name registered in: (2)
(b) The company* has ceased to have a place of business in: (2)
*has ceased to carry on business Date of cessation:
(c) New address(es) and office hours are as follows:
New address(es) in full: (1)Date(s) of commencement:
New office hours are: 6. COMPANY OFFICERS
(a) Cessations:
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Full names (4) (7) Usual residential
address Office formerly
held (3) Date of
cessation
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(b) Appointments and changes in particulars:
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Full names
and office
held (3) (4) (5) Usual
residential
address Date &
place of
birth Other occupations and
in the case of
directors, other
directorships (6) Date
of appointment or
change (8)
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7. AUDITORS:
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Full name Address of
principal
place of
practice in
Australia(1) Date of
change State whether
appointment,
resignation or
removal
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The above particulars are correct at the date of signing the annual return to
which this statement relates. Dated this day of 19 . Signature of
*Director *Secretary *Principal Executive Officer Name of signatory in block
letters: Notes: (1) Specify full address including (where applicable) any room
and floor number. (2) Insert name(s) of the participating States or
Territories.
(3) Insert "Director", "Principal Executive Officer" or "Secretary", as the
case requires. (4) Where a person's name has changed, state in full the former
name and the new name. (5) Paragraph 238 (7) (b) requires that a return
notifying the Commission of a person having ceased to be, or having become, a
director contain, with respect to each person who is, at the time of the
lodgment of the return, a director of the company, the particulars required to
be specified in the register. (6) Insert particulars of directorships held by
the director to whom the entry relates in other corporations that under the
law of a State or Territory are public companies or subsidiaries of public
companies, but not particulars of directorships held by the director in a
corporation that, by virtue of sub-section 7 (5), is deemed to be a related
corporation. Where a person is a director in one or more subsidiaries of the
same holding company, it is sufficient to disclose that the person is the
holder of one or more directorships in the group of companies and the group
may be described by the name of the holding company with the addition of the
word "Group". If no other directorships are held, say so. (7) Insert in
relation to a former officer "Died", "Resigned", "Removed", or as the case may
be. (8) Where the change is a change of residential address, the date of the
change need not be stated and the words "Change of address only" may be
inserted in the last column. CONSENT TO SPECIFICATION OF ADDRESS AS ADDRESS OF
OFFICE OF CORPORATION *I/We, (insert full name(s)), the occupier(s) of
premises the address of which is specified as the address of the *registered
office *principal office of (insert name of company), a company which is not
to occupy those premises,
consent to the following address being so specified: Dated this day of
19 . Signature: Name of signatory in block letters: *Strike out whichever is
not applicable.
---------- DIRECTIONS FOR COMPLETING ANNUAL RETURN AND STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN
PARTICULARS SHOWN ON ANNUAL RETURN DUE DATE FOR LODGING ANNUAL RETURN 1. Under
section 263, an annual return must be lodged-
(a) in the case of an exempt proprietary company, not later than 7 months
after the end of the company's financial year; or
(b) in any other case, not later than 6 months after the end of the
company's financial year, but in any event not later than the end of
the period of one month after the date of the annual general meeting.
DATE OF PARTICULARS PROVIDED 2. The particulars provided in the ANNUAL
RETURN or STATEMENT OF CHANGES should be correct as at the date of
signing the ANNUAL RETURN except for Item 14 which-
(a) in the case of "operating profit and extraordinary items after income
tax"-should be the amount for the whole financial year; and
(b) in the case of the other items-should be the amounts as at the end of
the financial year to which the return relates. DIRECTIONS FOR
COMPLETING STATEMENT OF CHANGES 3. If the Commission has served the
company with a partially completed annual return, the following
directions apply:
(a) Where particulars have already been inserted in the attached annual
return on the basis of documents previously received by the
Commission, those pre-printed particulars should be checked. Any
particulars that are incorrect should be deleted by drawing a line
through the incorrect particulars and inserting the correct
particulars in the relevant item in the STATEMENT OF CHANGES.
(b) Where a document reporting a change to pre-printed particulars has
been lodged with the Commission but the particulars as changed in
accordance with the document have not been printed on the annual
return, complete the appropriate item on the STATEMENT OF CHANGES and
insert "Change previously notified on (insert date)".
(c) Changes to the name of the company require the prior approval of the
Commission and should not be shown on the STATEMENT OF CHANGES unless
a CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME OF COMPANY has been
issued. 4. If the Commission has not served the company with a
partially completed annual return the following directions apply:
(a) Items 1, 2 and 3 on the STATEMENT OF CHANGES need not be completed.
(b) The remaining items on the STATEMENT OF CHANGES should be completed
only if the particulars prescribed in those items have not previously
been furnished to the Commission on the appropriate form. 5. Where no
particulars are required to be inserted in the STATEMENT OF CHANGES,
it need not be lodged with the Commission. DIRECTIONS FOR COMPLETING
PARTICULAR ITEMS OF ANNUAL RETURN AND STATEMENT OF CHANGES 6. Complete
any uncompleted sections of the return to the extent applicable to the
company. Items not applicable to the company may be marked "N/A". ITEM
3 PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES 7. Where the principal activity of the company
is acting as trustee for a trust or trusts, the nature or purpose of
that trust or those trusts should be stated.
ITEM 6 COMPANY OFFICERS 8. "Director" includes any person occupying, or acting
in, the position of director, by whatever name called, and any person in
accordance with whose directions or instructions the directors of a company
are accustomed to act. 9. Particulars of the date and place of birth of
officers are required to be stated in respect of officers newly appointed or
re-appointed after 30 March 1986 pursuant to section 238. ITEM 7 AUDITOR 10.
Insert the full name of the firm(s) or individual(s) holding office as
auditor(s) at the date on which the annual return is signed. ITEMS 8 AND 9
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 11. Where an exempt proprietary company is deemed to
have held the annual general meeting, state the date on which the meeting is
deemed to have been held. ITEM 10 SHARES ISSUED AND PAID-UP CAPITAL 12. Where
there are shares of different classes, kinds or amounts, state the total
number and total paid-up capital applicable to each category. 13. Where there
are partly paid shares, state the particulars separately. 14. If allotments of
shares have been made which have not been notified to the Commission on a Form
35, attach to the annual return a Form 35 in respect of those allotments. Each
Form 35 should apply to a period of not longer than one month. 15. Where
shares in a no liability company have been forfeited, attach a schedule
stating-
(a) the date of each call made after the date of the last annual return
or, in the case of a first return, the date of each call made after
incorporation;
(b) the dates, after the last return or incorporation, when shares
forfeited were offered for sale and the place of offer;
(c) the number of shares sold at each sale of forfeited shares made after
the date of the last return or, in the case of a first return, after
incorporation;
(d) the number of shares unsold at each offer for sale of forfeited shares
made after the date of the last return or, in the case of the first
return, after incorporation; and
(e) the number of shares disposed of pursuant to sub-section 480 (3) after
the date of the last return, being shares withdrawn from sale or for
which no bid was received. ITEM 11 LIST OF MEMBERS 16. State the
aggregate number of shares held by each member, not the identifying
number of each share. The total shares issued should agree with the
number of shares stated in the summary in Item 10. 17. Where the
shares are of different classes, state separately the number of each
class held. Where any shares have been converted into stock, state
particulars of the amount of that stock. 18. The names in this list
should be arranged in alphabetical order. ITEM 14 KEY FINANCIAL DATA
19. State the amount of the operating profit and extraordinary items
after adding, or deducting, extraordinary items and after deducting
income tax. State losses in brackets. 20. This item must be completed
by all companies except exempt proprietary companies which have
appointed an auditor and unlimited exempt proprietary companies. 21.
Where the company acts as a trustee, state separately the liabilities
incurred by the company as a trustee and the amount by which the
company has the right to be indemnified out of trust assets in respect
of those liabilities. DOCUMENTS TO ACCOMPANY THE ANNUAL RETURN
ACCOUNTS 22. In the case of public companies that are required to
lodge an annual return, exempt proprietary companies that were not
exempt for the whole of the financial year and non-exempt proprietary
companies, annex a copy, certified in the manner set out below, of all
accounts and group accounts (if any) required to be laid before the
company at the annual general meeting, together with a copy of every
document required by section 275 to be laid before the annual general
meeting. ANNEXURES 23. Where there is insufficient space in the return
for any particulars, they may be set out in an annexure. Requirements
relating to annexures are set out in regulation 8 of the Companies
Regulations. CERTIFICATION 24. Endorse the following certification on
copies of all documents required to be laid before the annual general
meeting and which are attached to the annual return:
"I certify that this is a true copy of all accounts and group accounts (if
any) required to be laid before the company at the annual general meeting,
together with a copy of every other document a copy of which is required by
section 275 to be laid before the annual general meeting.
*Name of signatory in block letters:".
*Strike out whichever is not applicable
Dated this day of 19 .
Signature of *Director *Principal Executive Officer *Secretary AMENDMENTS OF
ACCOUNTS OR OTHER DOCUMENTS LODGED WITH THE COMMISSION 25. Where accounts or
documents lodged with the Commission with the annual return are subsequently
amended, particulars of the amendment are required to be lodged with the
Commission on a Form 15. DIRECTIONS NOT TO BE LODGED 26. These DIRECTIONS need
not be lodged with the Commission.
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