Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) In exercising its powers and carrying out its duties, the responsible entity of a registered scheme must:
(a) act honestly; and
(b) exercise the degree of care and diligence that a reasonable person would exercise if they were in the responsible entity's position; and
(c) act in the best interests of the members and, if there is a conflict between the members' interests and its own interests, give priority to the members' interests; and
(d) treat the members who hold interests of the same class equally and members who hold interests of different classes fairly; and
(e) not make use of information acquired through being the responsible entity in order to:
(i) gain an improper advantage for itself or another person; or
(ii) cause detriment to the members of the scheme; and
(f) ensure that the scheme's constitution meets the requirements of sections 601GA and 601GB; and
(g) ensure that the scheme's compliance plan meets the requirements of section 601HA; and
(h) comply with the scheme's compliance plan; and
(i) ensure that scheme property is:
(i) clearly identified as scheme property; and
(ii) held separately from property of the responsible entity and property of any other scheme; and
(j) ensure that the scheme property is valued at regular intervals appropriate to the nature of the property; and
(k) ensure that all payments out of the scheme property are made in accordance with the scheme's constitution and this Act; and
(m) carry out or comply with any other duty, not inconsistent with this Act, that is conferred on the responsible entity by the scheme's constitution.
(2) The responsible entity holds scheme property on trust for scheme members.
Note: Under subsection 601FB(2), the responsible entity may appoint an agent to hold scheme property separately from other property.
(3) A duty of the responsible entity under subsection (1) or (2) overrides any conflicting duty an officer or employee of the responsible entity has under Part 2D.1.
(5) A responsible entity who contravenes subsection (1), and any person who is involved in a responsible entity's contravention of that subsection, contravenes this subsection.
Note 1: Section 79 defines involved .
Note 2: Subsection (5) is a civil penalty provision (see section 1317E).