
ASIC Corporations (Amendment) Instrument 2023/24
I, Anthony Graham, delegate of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, make the following legislative instrument.
Date 25 January 2023
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name of legislative instrument
This is the ASIC Corporations (Amendment) Instrument 2023/24.
2 Commencement
This instrument commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.
Note: The register may be accessed at www.legislation.gov.au.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under subsection 1020F(1) of the Corporations Act 2001.
4 Schedules
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
ASIC Corporations (Short Selling) Instrument 2018/745
1 Section 11 (notional subsection 1020B(7H))
Repeal the notional subsection, substitute:
“(7H) A person must only, in this jurisdiction, sell section 1020B products to a buyer on a licensed market during a deferred settlement trading period if, at the time of the sale:
(a) the person is or, if the person is selling on behalf of another person, that other person is; or
(b) the person believes on reasonable grounds that the person is or, if the person is selling on behalf of another person, that other person is;
in a class of persons who, because such persons hold financial products of a particular class, have an entitlement to be issued with or transferred the section 1020B products under or in connection with the corporate action.”.