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FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS DUTY ACT 1983 - SECT 20

20—Exclusion of persons from groups

        (1)         Where the Commissioner is satisfied, having regard to the nature and degree of ownership or control of the businesses, the nature of the businesses and any other matters that the Commissioner considers relevant, that a business carried on by a member of a group is carried on substantially independently of, and is not substantially connected with the carrying on of, a business carried on by any other member of that group, the Commissioner may, by notice in writing served on that firstmentioned member, exclude that member from that group.

        (2)         The Commissioner cannot exercise the power conferred by subsection (1) so as to exclude a financial institution from a group on and from a date if that financial institution is or was on that date a corporation related, for the purposes of the Corporations Law , to another corporation which is a member of that group.

        (3)         Despite any other provision of this Part, a notice under subsection (1) has effect according to its tenor on and from the date specified in the notice (being a date that is the date of the notice or before the date of the notice) as the date on and from which the financial institution referred to in the notice is or will be taken to have been excluded from the group referred to in the notice.



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