Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

CORPORATIONS REGULATIONS 2001 - REG 7.9.07CA

         (1)   For paragraph 949B (1) (e) of the Act, a regulated person must give a wholesale client a Product Disclosure Statement or a Supplementary Product Disclosure Statement for a financial product if:

                (a)    the financial product is offered or issued by a discretionary mutual fund (within the meaning given by subsections 5 (5) and (6) of the Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001 ); and

               (b)    the regulated person would be required to give the Statement if the product were offered or issued to a retail client.

         (2)   The Product Disclosure Statement or Supplementary Product Disclosure Statement required to be given under this regulation must be the same as that which would be given to a retail client.

Note    Failure to comply with this regulation is an offence punishable by a fine of up to 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 1 year, or both -- see section 1311 and item 272A of Schedule 3 to the Corporations Act 2001 .