Corporations Legislation 2013 `

This fully consolidated legislation book includes the Corporations Act 2001, Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 and associated Acts and legislation, capturing the latest amendments up to 1 January 2013. Corporations Legislation 2013 provides all 2012 amendments including these critical changes:-

• Future of financial advice (“FOFA”) changes affecting advice standards (Acts 67 and 68 of 2012)
• Audits affected by extended ASIC regulatory powers and changes to audit procedures (Act 72 of 2012)
• Phoenix activity amendments provide ASIC powers for liquidation to improve worker entitlements under GEERS and for electronic publication of notices to external administrators (Act 73 of 2012).

Designed for use by practitioners, business professionals and anyone with an interest in corporations law, the Corporations Act 2001 is supplemented with key section annotations updated by Sydney barrister Edmund Finnane.

The section specific commentary notes provide additional guidance for the most important provisions. In addition, in the “Year in Review” feature, Professor Robert Baxt highlights significant corporations law developments since January 2012.