AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

AMENDMENT TO COMPANY REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 12 of 1976

	The purpose of these Regulation is to amend the Companies Regulations:–

(a)	by converting the units of measurement in those Regulations from imperial units to metric units;  and

(b)	by making a minor amendment to the form of the statutory report (form 45).

2.	Regulation 1 deals with the size of documents to be lodged with the Registrar of Companies and the margins to be employed in such documents.

3.	Paragraphs 2 (a), (b) and (d) deal with the distances of principal share registers and of registers of holders of interests from the office of the Registrar of Companies.

4.	Paragraph 2 (c) substitutes ‘Secretaries’ for ‘Secretary’ in item 7 of Form 45 to accord with the requirements of paragraph 135 (3) (d) of the ACT Companies Ordinance which requires the statutory report to contain various particulars, including ‘the names, addresses and descriptions of the . . . . . . . secretaries of the company’.

5.	Apart from minor adjustments to the measurements there are no changes to the existing law.