Western Australian Current Acts

COMPANIES (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1982 - NOTES

Notes

¹ This is a compilation of the Companies (Administration) Act 1982 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table. The table also contains information about any reprint.

Compilation table

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Companies (Administration) Act 1982	9 of 1982	14 May 1982	1 Jul 1982 (see s. 2 and Gazette 25 Jun 1982 p. 2079)
Acts Amendment (Financial Administration and Audit) Act 1985 s. 3	98 of 1985	4 Dec 1985	1 Jul 1986 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Jun 1986 p. 2255)
Companies and Securities Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1988 Pt. III	48 of 1988	1 Dec 1988	9 Dec 1988 (see s. 2 and Gazette 9 Dec 1988 p. 4817)
Acts Amendment (Public Sector Management) Act 1994 s. 19	32 of 1994	29 Jun 1994	1 Oct 1994 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Sep 1994 p. 4948)
Financial Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2006 s. 17	77 of 2006	21 Dec 2006	1 Feb 2007 (see s. 2(1) and Gazette 19 Jan 2007 p. 137)
Reprint 1: The Companies (Administration) Act 1982 as at 12 Oct 2007 (includes amendments listed above)

Statutes (Repeals and Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2009 s. 6	8 of 2009	21 May 2009	22 May 2009 (see s. 2(b))
Public Sector Reform Act 2010 s. 90	39 of 2010	1 Oct 2010	1 Dec 2010 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 5 Nov 2010 p. 5563)

² Footnote no longer applicable.

³ The Companies Act 1961 and related Acts about companies were superseded by the Companies (Application of Laws) Act 1981 and the Companies (Western Australia) Code, see s. 18 of the Act.

⁴ The Companies (Application of Laws) Act 1981 and the Companies (Western Australia) Code and related Acts and codes were superseded by the Corporations (Western Australia) Act 1990 and the Corporations Law (see s. 85 of the Act) which, on 15 July 2001, were superseded by the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth, see the Corporations (Ancillary Provisions) Act 2001 s. 6.

The Corporations (Western Australia) Act 1990 Pt. 13 Div. 2 contains a number of transitional provisions that can affect how references to former laws and things under them may be read.

The former laws (listed in s. 84 of that Act) include:

the Futures Industry (Western Australia) Code

the Companies (Western Australia) Code

the Securities Industry (Western Australia) Code

the Companies (Acquisition of Shares) (Western Australia) Code

the Companies and Securities (Interpretation and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Western Australia) Code.

⁵ The National Companies and Securities Commission Act 1979 (Commonwealth) was repealed by Act No. 110 of 1991 (Commonwealth) s. 14. The National Companies and Securities Commission was replaced by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

⁶ The National Companies and Securities Commission (State Provisions) Act 1980 was repealed by the Corporations (Western Australia) Amendment Act 1991 s. 19.

⁷ The Securities Industry Act 1975 was superseded by the Securities Industry (Application of Laws) Act 1981 and the Securities Industry (Western Australia) Code. See also note 4.

⁸ Footnote no longer applicable.

⁹ Under the Public Sector Management Act 1994 s. 112(1), a reference to the Public Service Act 1978 is, unless the contrary intention appears or it is otherwise provided under the Acts Amendment (Public Sector Management) Act 1994, to be construed as if it had been amended to be a reference to the Public Sector Management Act 1994.

¹⁰ The “Registrar of Companies” was an office created by the Companies Act 1943. That Act is now cited as the Companies (Co-operative) Act 1943.

¹¹ Under the Financial Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2006 Sch. 2 cl. 13 a reference in a written law to the Consolidated Fund may, where the context so requires, be read as if it had been amended to be a reference to the Consolidated Account. The reference was changed under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(5)(a).

Defined terms

[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]

Defined term Provision(s)
Commission 3
Commissioner 3
functions 3
futures contract 3
power 3
the Agreement 3