ASIC Corporations (Definition of Approved Foreign Market) Instrument 2017/669

I, Grant Moodie, delegate of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, make the following legislative instrument.

Date  24 August 2017

Grant Moodie

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name of legislative instrument

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Definitions

Part 2—Declaration

5 Definition of “approved foreign market”

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name of legislative instrument

This is the ASIC Corporations (Definition of Approved Foreign Market) Instrument 2017/669.

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 subsections 283GA(1), 601QA(1), 655A(1), 741(1), 926A(2), 992B(1) and 1020F(1) of the Corporations Act 2001.

4 Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Corporations Act 2001.

applicable ASIC legislative instrument means any of the following:

(a) ASIC Class Order [CO 08/10];

(b) ASIC Class Order [CO 12/752];

(c) ASIC Class Order [CO 13/655];

(d) ASIC Class Order [CO 13/760];

(e) ASIC Class Order [CO 13/761];

(f) ASIC Class Order [CO 14/1000];

(g) ASIC Corporations (Foreign Rights Issues) Instrument 2015/356;

(h) ASIC Corporations (Foreign Scrip Bids) Instrument 2015/357;

(i) ASIC Corporations (Foreign Securities—Publishing Notices) Instrument 2015/359;

(j) ASIC Corporations (Foreign Small-Scale Offers) Instrument 2015/362;

(k) ASIC Corporations (Managed investment product consideration) Instrument 2015/847;

(l) ASIC Corporations (Minimum Bid Price) Instrument 2015/1068;

(m) ASIC Corporations (Consents to Statements) Instrument 2016/72.

Part 2—Declaration

5 Definition of “approved foreign market”

Chapters 2L, 5C, 6 and 6D, and Parts 7.6 (other than Division 4 and 8), 7.7, 7.8 and 7.9, of the Act apply to any person who purports to rely on an applicable ASIC legislative instrument as if section 9 of the Act were modified by inserting the following definition in the appropriate alphabetical order:

approved foreign market means any of the following:

(a) Borsa Italiana; 

(b) Bursa Malaysia (previously known as Bursa Malaysia Main Board and Bursa Malaysia Second Board);

(c) Euronext Amsterdam;

(d) Euronext Brussels;

(e) Euronext Lisbon;

(f) Euronext Paris;

(g) Frankfurt Stock Exchange;

(h) Hong Kong Stock Exchange;

(i)  JSE (also known as the Johannesburg Stock Exchange);

(j) London Stock Exchange;

(k) NASDAQ Global Market;

(l) NASDAQ Global Select Market (together with NASDAQ Global Market, previously known as NASDAQ Stock Market);

(m) New York Stock Exchange;

(n) NSYE MKT (previously known as American Stock Exchange);

(o) NZX (also known as New Zealand Stock Exchange);

(p) Singapore Exchange;

(q) SIX Swiss Exchange (previously known as SWX Swiss Exchange);

(r) Tokyo Stock Exchange;

(s) Toronto Stock Exchange.