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Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Regulations 2020
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This item is authorised by the following title:
Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Act 2015
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F2024C00352 (C03)
09 April 2024
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Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name
3 Authority
5 Definitions
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Part 2—Fees relating to actions
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Division 1—Fees covered by this Part
6 Fees covered by this Part
Division 2—Fees for giving notice of a notifiable action or notifiable national security action
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Subdivision A—Fees covered by this Division
7 Fees covered by this Division
Subdivision B—Fees for giving notice of notifiable actions
8 Fee for giving notice of a notifiable action—general rule
9 Finding the fee constant
10 Applying the fee constant to work out the amount of the fee
11 Components for working out the fee if the value of the consideration is more than the fee constant
12 Exception—fee for giving notice of a foreign government investor starting an Australian business
Subdivision C—Fees for giving notice of notifiable national security actions
13 Notifiable national security actions
Division 3—Fees for giving notice of a proposal to take an action that is neither a notifiable action nor a notifiable national security action
14 Fees covered by this Division
15 Proposal to acquire certain interests in entities or businesses, or issuing securities in entities etc.
16 Proposal to enter or terminate certain agreements, or to alter constituent documents
17 Proposal to take a reviewable national security action
Division 4—Fees for notices of national security reviews
18 Fees covered by this Division
19 Notices of national security reviews
Division 5—Fees for certain actions for which notice is not given
20 Simplified outline of this Division
21 Significant actions—acquiring certain interests in entities or businesses, or issuing securities in entities etc.
22 Significant actions—entering or terminating certain agreements, or altering constituent documents
23 Significant actions—acquisitions of interests in Australian land
24 Notifiable national security actions
25 Reviewable national security actions
Division 6—Fees for applying for certain variations
26 Fees covered by this Division
27 Applying to vary a no objection notification
28 Applying to vary a notice imposing conditions
Division 7—Exemption certificates
Subdivision A—Applications for exemption certificates
29 Fees covered by this Subdivision and Subdivision B
30 Certificates under section 57 of the Foreign Acquisitions Act (about new dwellings)
31 Residential land (near new dwelling interests) certificates
32 Certificates under section 59 of the Foreign Acquisitions Act (about established dwellings) or residential land (other than established dwellings) certificates
33 Other kinds of exemption certificates
Subdivision B—Applications for multiple exemption certificates
34 Applications for residential land certificates covering a single proposed acquisition
35 Multiple applications for land, entities, tenements and national security exemption certificates
Subdivision C—Ongoing 6 monthly fees for exemption certificates
36 Simplified outline of this Subdivision
37 Ongoing 6 monthly fees for developers given exemption certificates under section 57 (new dwellings) of the Foreign Acquisitions Act
38 Ongoing 6 monthly fees for developers given residential land (near new dwelling interests) certificates
Subdivision D—Applications to vary exemption certificates
39 Fees covered by this Subdivision
40 Variations of exemption certificates
Division 8—Fees for internal reorganisations
41 Fees for internal reorganisations
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Part 3—Vacancy fees
42 Fees covered by this Part
43 Acquisition was a notifiable action notified under section 81 of the Foreign Acquisitions Act
44 Acquisition was covered by a new dwellings exemption certificate or a residential land (near new dwelling interests) certificate
45 Acquisition was covered by another kind of exemption certificate
46 Acquisition for which an order is made under Division 2 of Part 3 of the Foreign Acquisitions Act or a no objection notification is given
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Part 4—Adjusting fees
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Division 1—Simplified outline of this Part
47 Simplified outline of this Part
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Division 2—Fees where more than one action taken
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Subdivision A—Single action of more than one kind that could result in more than one fee
48 Single action of more than one kind that could result in more than one fee
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Subdivision B—Single agreement covers more than one action
49 Adjustment to the fees payable for the actions to which this Subdivision applies
50 Amount of the adjusted fees for the applicable actions
51 If actions in an action group involve acquiring an interest in Australian land or in a tenement
52 If actions in an action group involve certain business transactions
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Division 3—Other grounds for adjusting fees
53 Fee payable if the value of the consideration is less than $75,000
54 Majority owners
55 Acquisition of leasehold interest after sale of freehold interest
56 Acquisition of securities in a land entity
57 Jointly acquiring or holding interests in a security, asset, tenement, trust or Australian land
58 Actions taken by wholly owned groups
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Part 5—Indexation
59 Specified fees and fee components are subject to indexation
60 Indexation factor
61 Index number
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Part 5A—Fee cap
61A Fee cap
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Part 6—Application and transitional provisions
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Division 1—Transitional matters relating to the repeal of the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Regulation 2015
62 Application of this instrument
63 Transitional—applying to vary a no objection notification
64 Transitional—applying to vary an exemption certificate
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Division 2—Transitional matters relating to the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment (Fee Indexation) Regulations 2021
65 Application of amendments
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Division 3—Transitional matters relating to the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment (Fee Doubling) Regulations 2022
66 Application of amendments
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Division 4—Transitional matters relating to the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment Act 2024
67 Application of amendments
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Endnotes
Endnote 1—About the endnotes
Endnote 2—Abbreviation key
Endnote 3—Legislation history
Endnote 4—Amendment history