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ASIC (Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy—Regulatory Costs) Instrument 2024/821

I, Peter Dunlop, delegate of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, make the following legislative instrument.

 

Date 7 November 2024

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Dunlop  

 

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary 3

1 Name of legislative instrument....................................3

2 Commencement and date of effect.................................3

3 Authority....................................................3

4 Definitions...................................................3

Part 2—Determination 4

5 Applicable financial year........................................4

6 ASIC’s regulatory costs.........................................4

7 Attribution of ASIC’s regulatory costs to each sub-sector...............4

 

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name of legislative instrument

This is the ASIC (Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy—Regulatory Costs) Instrument 2024/821.

2 Commencement and date of effect

(1) 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.

(2) This instrument takes effect as follows:

(a) if subsection 11(3) of ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017 applies—the instrument takes effect on the day specified in paragraph 11(3)(a) of that Act;

(b) if subsection 11(4) of ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017 applies—the remaining provisions of the instrument take effect on the day specified in paragraph 11(4)(a) of that Act.

Note 1: Section 11 of the ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017 contains special provisions dealing with the disallowance and taking effect of instruments of this kind.

Note 2: Subsection 10(8) of the ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017 has the effect that the instrument can have retrospective application before the day it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation. The register may be accessed at www.legislation.gov.au.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 12A(6) of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 for the purposes of subsection 10(2) of the ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017.

4 Definitions

In this instrument:

(a) Act means the ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017; and

(b) unless the contrary intention appears, an expression that:

(i) is used, but not defined, in this instrument; and

(ii) is defined in the Act;

has the same meaning in this instrument as in the Act.

Part 2—Determination

5 Applicable financial year

This determination applies to the 2023-24 financial year.

6 ASIC’s regulatory costs

ASIC’s regulatory costs for the financial year are $328,108,436.

7 Attribution of ASIC’s regulatory costs to each sub-sector

Column 3 of the table specifies the extent to which ASIC’s regulatory costs are attributable to the sub-sector specified in column 2 of the table.

 

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Item

Sub-sectors

Extent to which regulatory costs are attributable to the
sub-sector ($)

1

Auditors of disclosing entities

7,096,900.00

2

Australian derivative trade repository operators

255,427.00

2A

Benchmark administrators

91,091.00

2B

Claims handling and settling services providers

6,903,067.00

3

Corporate advisors

1,893,516

4

Credit intermediaries

2,891,763

5

Credit providers

31,324,600

6

Credit rating agencies

41,479

7

Custodians

                             636,143

8

Deposit product providers

4,355,132

8A

Established specialised market operators

472,403

9

Exempt CS facility operators

11,522

10

Exempt market operators

11,522

11

Insurance product distributors

842,495

12

Insurance product providers

11,255,306

13

Large futures exchange operators

1,188,008

14

Large futures exchange participants

850,794

15

Large proprietary companies

10,312,687

16

Large securities exchange operators

5,344,210

17

Large securities exchange participants

19,092,934

18

Licensees that provide only general advice to retail clients or wholesale clients 

2,798,274

19

Licensees that provide personal advice on relevant financial products to retail clients

45,013,593

20

Licensees that provide personal advice to only wholesale clients

1,616,129

21

Licensees that provide personal advice to retail clients on only products that are not relevant financial products

90,901

22

Listed corporations

                      57,418,413

23

Managed discretionary account providers

961,795

24

Margin lenders

4,517

24A

New specialised market operators

12,716

25

Operators of investor directed portfolio services

131,556

25A

Operators of notified foreign passport funds and regulated former notified funds

5,295

26

Overseas market operators

443,598

27

Over-the-counter traders

5,074,859

28

Payment product providers

5,240,526

29

Public companies (unlisted)

4,148,116

30

Registered company auditors

3,132,214

31

Registered liquidators

7,481,213

32

Responsible entities

28,114,632

33

Retail over-the-counter derivatives issuers

16,239,386

34

Risk management product providers

100,282

35

Securities dealers

5,168,704

36

Small and medium amount credit providers

7,103,088

38

Small futures exchange operators

63,438

39

Small securities exchange operators

533,062

40

Small securities exchange operators with self-listing function only

0  

41

Superannuation trustees

26,428,308

42

Tier 1 clearing and settlement facility operators

3,340,833

43

Tier 2 clearing and settlement facility operators

91,881

44

Tier 3 clearing and settlement facility operators

28,411

45

Tier 4 clearing and settlement facility operators

0

46

Traditional trustee company service providers

493,685

47

Wholesale electricity dealers

200,956

48

Wholesale trustees

1,757,056