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ASIC Class Order [CO 13/762]

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Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Corporations Act 2001— Subsections 341(1), 601QA(1), 741(1), 926A(2), 992B(1) and 1020F(1)—Exemption, Declaration, Order and Revocation
 
 
Enabling legislation
 
1.       The Australian Securities and Investments Commission makes this instrument under subsections 341(1), 601QA(1), 741(1), 926A(2), 992B(1) and 1020F(1) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Act).
 
Title
 
2.       This instrument is ASIC Class Order [CO 13/762].
 
Commencement
 
3.       This instrument commences on the later of:
(a)     the date it is registered under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003; and
 
(b)     1 July 2013.
 
Note:   An instrument is registered when it is recorded on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) in electronic form: see Legislative Instruments Act 2003, section 4 (definition of register). The FRLI may be accessed at http://www.frli.gov.au/.
 
Exemption
 
4.       A responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme and each other person involved in the preparation of a Product Disclosure Statement for an interest in the scheme does not need to comply with:
 
(a)     Parts 6D.2 and 6D.3 of the Act for offers of accessible securities or interests in accessible securities through the scheme (except where the person is the issuer of those securities); and
 
(b)     sections 1013D and 1013E of the Act for a Product Disclosure Statement relating to:
 
(i)      an interest in the scheme; and
 
(ii)     an interest in a financial product that is held or may be held by a member because the legal title to a financial product is held for the member by a custodian as part of the IDPS-like scheme;
 
to the extent that those provisions may require a Product Disclosure Statement that relates to:
 
(iii)    interests in the scheme; or
 
(iv)    any financial product acquired by the member though the scheme because a custodian has legal title to a financial product as part of the scheme;
 
to contain information about the accessible financial products.
 
5.       Paragraph 4 does not apply to a person if ASIC has given a notice in writing to the person stating that it may not rely on the exemption in paragraph 4 and has not withdrawn that notice.
 
Declaration
 
6.       Part 7.9 of the Act applies in relation to a responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme and each other person involved in the preparation of a Product Disclosure Statement for an interest in the scheme as if that Part were modified or varied by:
 
(a)     in subsection 1010A(1), after “Divisions)”, inserting “and section 1013DAB in relation to accessible securities (as defined in section 1013DAB)”; and
(b)     after subsection 1012IA(9) (as notionally inserted by ASIC Class Order [CO 13/763]), inserting:
 
“(10) A responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme (as defined in subsection 1013DAB(19)) does not need to give a client a Product Disclosure Statement for a regulated acquisition that complies with subsection 1013DAB(8).”; and
 
(c)     after section 1013DAA (as notionally inserted by ASIC Class Order [CO 13/657]), inserting:
 
“1013DAB          Requirements for IDPS-like schemes
 
(1)     A Product Disclosure Statement for offers of interests in an IDPS-like scheme must also include such information as a person acquiring an interest in the scheme as a retail client would reasonably require to understand the following, but does not need to include information in relation to actual or identified accessible investments:
 
(a)     any differences between the rights of a holder of accessible investments and the rights of a member of the scheme in respect of accessible investments, including information on:
(i)      cooling-off rights; and
 
Note:   See section 1019BA (as notionally inserted by ASIC Class Order [CO 13/762]).

(ii)     voting rights; and
(iii)    withdrawal rights under section 724 and section 1016E in relation to accessible securities and accessible financial products;
 
(b)     the consequences for a member if at any time the member has not engaged a person, or a person meeting particular requirements, to provide:
 
(i)                 financial product advice to the member in relation to the scheme; or
(ii)               instructions to the responsible entity in relation to accessible investments,
including the ability of the member in such circumstances to:
 
(iii)             provide instructions in relation to accessible investments; and
(iv)             continue to be a member of the scheme;
 
(c)     how and to whom a member may make a complaint in relation to:
 
(i)      the operation of the scheme; and
 
(ii)     accessible financial products held through the scheme; and
 
(iii)    financial product advice provided to the investor in relation to the scheme that is not provided by or on behalf of the responsible entity;
 
(d)     members’ right to disclosure in relation to accessible investments including that a member will have the right to elect to receive copies of communications sent to holders of accessible investments, including those communications which the holder may elect to receive;
 
(e)     how the responsible entity will determine what financial products, securities or other investments are or will be available as accessible investments for the scheme, including the processes applied and the factors considered for that purpose;
 
(f)      whether withdrawal requests are allowed for by the scheme’s constitution and, if so, how a withdrawal request will be dealt with under the constitution where the request relates to an accessible investment which is subject to a minimum holding requirement or giving effect to the request might otherwise adversely affect members other than the requesting member.
 
(2)     The Product Disclosure Statement must also include:
 
(a)     a statement that copies of the following policies are available free of charge on request:
 
(i)                 the responsible entity’s policy on whether, and on what basis, it will exercise any voting or other rights arising from holding accessible investments; and
 
(ii)               the policy on the consequences for a member in the circumstances referred to in paragraph (1)(b); and
 
(b)     a statement that a separate document specifying the accessible investments for the scheme will be provided on request free of charge, if the Product Disclosure Statement does not specify these investments; and
 
(c)     statements to the effect that:
(i)      the total fees and charges payable by a member will include the costs of the scheme as well as the cost of any accessible investments chosen by the member; and
(ii)     it is important that the member understand the fees of any accessible investments chosen by the member and that those fees will be in addition to the fees charged for the scheme, together with transaction and account costs incurred on behalf of the member; and
(iii)    the costs of the accessible investments chosen by the member will generally be set out in a disclosure document or Product Disclosure Statement for the accessible investments; and
(d)     examples, based on estimates, of the total of fees, charges and expenses of the scheme and the accessible securities and accessible financial products that may be acquired through the scheme that satisfy the requirements of subsection (3).
 
 (3)    The examples referred to in paragraph (2)(d):
 
(a)     must express the total estimate of fees, charges and expenses as a proportion of the total price paid in acquiring the accessible securities and accessible financial products through the scheme; and
(b)     must be examples that the responsible entity has reasonable grounds for believing are based on estimates of the fees, charges and expenses that are within the range typically charged for accessible securities and accessible financial products of the relevant kind; and
 
(c)     must cover a range of accessible securities and accessible financial products that may be acquired through the scheme; and
 
(d)     need not refer to actual or identified accessible securities or accessible financial products.
 
(4)     The responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme must not issue an interest in the scheme to a person as a retail client in response to an application form unless:
(a)     the form contains a prominent warning that:
 
(i)      identifies the key areas of difference between acquiring a financial product directly and through the scheme, including any differences in respect of the rights referred to in paragraph (1)(a);
 
(ii)     if applicable, that a member may be adversely affected if the member has not engaged a person, or a person meeting particular requirements, to provide financial product advice to the member or provide instructions on behalf of the member in relation to accessible investments; and
 
(b)     the form contains cross-references (including page or paragraph references where applicable) to where further information on the  matters mentioned in subparagraph (a)(i) and if applicable (a)(ii) can be located in the Product Disclosure Statement; and
 
(c)     in the case of:
 
(i)      a form that is submitted electronically – the part of the facility that allows the person applying for the interests to sign or submit the form contains a prominent statement; and
(ii)     otherwise – the form requires the person applying for the interests to sign an acknowledgement;
to the effect that the person applying for the interest acknowledges the matters contained in the warning.
 
(5)     The responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme must give to a member on request a copy of all communications that are required by law to be given to the holder of an accessible investment (including communications that are required to be given on request) where that accessible investment has been acquired under a direction of the member.
 
(6)     A member may make a request under subsection (5) in relation to a particular communication or make a standing request in relation to a class of communications. The responsible entity must provide the information as soon as practicable after the information is received or otherwise becomes available to be provided to the member.
 
(7)     The responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme must not, and must ensure that  any custodian does not, acquire accessible investments as part of the scheme that are:
 
(a)     interests in a managed investment scheme that is not a registered scheme; or
 
(b)     interests in a scheme that would be a managed investment scheme but for paragraph (e) of the definition of managed investment scheme in section 9;
 
unless:
 
(c)     in relation to a particular member, the responsible entity is reasonably satisfied that if that member had invested directly in the scheme, the scheme would not have been required to have been registered; and
 
(d)     so far as the responsible entity is aware or has reason to suspect, if all interests in the scheme held in custodial arrangements had been held by the clients of those arrangements, the scheme would not have been required to be registered.
Note:   Under section 601ED, a managed investment scheme does not generally need to be registered if it has no more than 20 members. If interests held through custodial arrangements such as IDPSs, IDPS-like schemes and NCSs had been acquired directly, the scheme may have required registration as it may have had more than 20 members.
(8)     The responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme must not, and must ensure that any custodian does not, acquire accessible securities or accessible financial products under a direction of a member as part of the scheme unless:
 
(a)     in the case of an acquisition of accessible securities – the responsible entity is reasonably satisfied that:
 
(i)      the member has been given a copy of the disclosure document for the accessible securities that would have been required had the securities been offered to the member directly at the time of the acquisition and the responsible entity has no reason to believe that the disclosure document is defective as if it were prepared at that time; or
 
(ii)     the accessible securities could lawfully have been offered and issued or sold, as the case may be, to the member directly without the member being given a disclosure document; or
(b)     in the case of an acquisition of an accessible financial product:
 
(i)      the responsible entity is reasonably satisfied that:
 
(A)    the member has been given a copy of the Product Disclosure Statement for the accessible financial product that would have been required had the financial product been offered to the member directly at the time of the acquisition and the responsible entity has no reason to believe the Product Disclosure Statement is defective as if it were prepared at the time of the acquisition; or
 
(B)    the accessible financial product could lawfully have been offered and issued or sold, as the case may be, to the member directly without the member being given a Product Disclosure Statement and the responsible entity has no reason to suspect that a Product Disclosure Statement would have been required  to be given to the member if all other holdings of the financial product in custodial arrangements had been held by the clients of those arrangements; or
 
Note:         Under section 601ED, a managed investment scheme does not generally need to be registered if it has no more than 20 members. If interests held through custodial arrangements such as IDPSs, IDPS-like schemes and NCSs had been acquired directly, the scheme may have required registration as it may have had more than 20 members.
 
(ii)     if the member already holds an accessible financial product of the same kind through the scheme, the responsible entity has given the member a Product Disclosure Statement for a financial product of the same kind and:
(A)    the responsible entity reasonably believes  that the member has access to, and knows that they have access to, a Product Disclosure Statement for the financial product; and
(B)    the Product Disclosure Statement the member has access to is the most current in use or does not differ from the most current in use in a way that is materially adverse for the member; and
(C)    the responsible entity has no reason to believe the Product Disclosure Statement the member has access to is defective as if it were prepared at the time of the acquisition; or
 
(c)     the acquisition is made under a distribution reinvestment plan in relation to a member and the member already has an existing holding of an accessible financial product of the same kind or accessible securities in the same class through the scheme; or
 
(d)     the acquisition is made under a regular saving acquisition in relation to a member and:
 
(i)      the member already has an existing holding of an accessible financial product of the same kind through the scheme; and
 
(ii)     the responsible entity has complied with its agreement with the member in relation to the regular savings plan to give any missing documents.
 
(9)     The responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme must:
 
(a)     give to each member a quarterly report complying with subsection (11) within one month after each quarter day; or
 
(b)     give electronic access to the information referred to in subsection (12) on a substantially continuous basis to members who:
 
(i)      have agreed to obtain information concerning transactions and holdings through the scheme electronically instead of receiving a quarterly report; and
 
(ii)     the responsible entity has no reason to doubt can electronically access this information on a substantially continuous basis.
 
(10)   If the responsible entity provides electronic access to information to members during a quarter instead of a quarterly report complying with subsection (11):
 
(a)     the information that was displayed at the quarter's end for the quarter that purports to be the information required under subsection (12) must remain readily accessible to members through the same facility by which electronic access was given to the members during the quarter until the end of the financial year of the IDPS-like scheme after the financial year of the IDPS-like scheme in which the quarter day falls; and
 
(b)     the facility on which the information remains accessible must display to members a statement to the effect that only information displayed at the quarter's end will be considered by the auditor in preparing its annual report relating to the information provided electronically.
 
(11)   The quarterly report must be a written report which contains the following information:
 
(a)     all transactions carried out under a direction given by a member or on their behalf during the quarter; and
 
(b)     the quantity and value of assets held through the IDPS-like scheme by the member and corresponding liabilities on the quarter day, the value of assets being determined as follows:
 
(i)      for financial assets– net market value (being the amount which could be expected to be received from the disposal of the asset in an orderly market after deducting costs expected to be incurred in realising the proceeds of such a disposal); and
(ii)     for all other assets – the value which would be shown in the books of the scheme; and
 
(c)     the revenue and expenses of the member in relation to the scheme and assets held through the scheme by the member during the quarter.
 
(12)   The following information must be accessible electronically if electronic access is provided instead of quarterly reports:
 
(a)     all transactions which the member has conducted through the  scheme for a period of at least one year (or such shorter period as they have been a member) up to a date no more than 48 hours (excluding hours on a day that is not a business day) before the time of access;
 
(b)     the quantity and value of assets held through the IDPS-like scheme by the member and corresponding liabilities at a time no more than 48 hours (excluding hours on a day that is not a business day) before the time of access, the values of the assets being determined in accordance with paragraph (11)(b) and being as current as is reasonably practicable;
 
(c)     the revenue and expenses of the member in relation to the scheme and assets held through the scheme by the member during a period of at least one year (or such shorter period as they have been a member) up to a date no more than 48 hours (excluding hours on a day that is not a business day) before the time of access;
 
(d)     the time at which the information is current.
 
(13)   The responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme must give to each member within three months of the end of each financial year of the scheme:
 
(a)     an annual report (annual investor statement) containing:
 
(i)      a summary of the transactions by or on behalf of the member through the scheme during the financial year containing the particulars that a member may reasonably require in relation to the transactions; and
 
(ii)     for each member who has been provided with quarterly reports under paragraph (9)(a) a statement that the member may request a copy of any quarterly report relating to the financial year for the member; and
 
(b)     a copy of the annual report or reports for the relevant financial year of the scheme prepared by a registered company auditor under subsection (14).
 
(14)   The responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme must after the end of each financial year of the scheme cause a registered company auditor to provide one or more annual reports that set out each of the following opinions or statements:
 
(a)     the auditor's opinion as to whether the internal controls and other procedures of the responsible entity, each custodian and any other relevant person acting on behalf of the responsible entity were suitably designed and operated effectively in all material respects to ensure that:
 
(i)      the annual investor statement for the relevant financial year of the scheme is or has been given to members without material misstatements; and
 
(ii)     where the annual investor statement does not purport to include particulars of each transaction that would be required in quarterly reports for each quarter during the financial year of the scheme:
 
(A)    any quarterly reports, are or have been given to members without material misstatements; and
 
(B)    any information that is made accessible electronically under paragraph (9)(b) in respect of the financial year is not materially misstated at each quarter's end in the financial year; and
 
(b)     the auditor's opinion as to whether the aggregates of assets (other than assets held by a member), liabilities, revenue and expenses shown in the annual investor statement for the financial year of the scheme have been properly reconciled in all material respects to the corresponding amounts shown in the reports prepared by the custodian and which have been independently audited; and
 
(c)     the auditor's statement as to whether or not the auditor has any reason to believe that:
 
(i)      any annual investor statement for the relevant financial year of the scheme given to any member is materially misstated; and
 
(ii)     if the annual investor statement does not generally purport to include particulars of each transaction that would be required in quarterly reports for each quarter during the financial year:
 
(A)    any quarterly reports given for the financial year are materially misstated; and
 
(B)    any information accessible electronically by members under paragraph (9)(b) that relates to transactions during the financial year, assets held during the financial year and any corresponding liabilities or revenue and expenses for the financial year was materially misstated at each quarter's end during the financial year;
 
and no such report may contain any statement that has or purports to have the effect of excluding or disclaiming liability to members of the scheme as users of the report.
 
(15)   A document is given to a person for the purposes of this section:
 
(a)     when it is received in accessible form by that person or their eligible agent; or
 
(b)     if there is no other way of sending the document that may reasonably be expected to result in it being received by that person or their eligible agent – when all reasonable steps are taken to send it to that person or their eligible agent; or
 
(c)     one business day after an email is sent to the email address of the person or their eligible agent that the responsible entity reasonably believes is the email  address of the person or eligible agent where the person has agreed to receive the document by email; or
 
(d)     one business day after an email is sent containing a hypertext link to the document to the email address of the person or their eligible agent that the responsible entity reasonably believes is the email address of the person or eligible agent where:
 
(i)      the person has agreed to receive documents in that manner; and
 
(ii)     the responsible entity has no reason to suspect that the person is unlikely by mere scrolling or use of direct hypertext links to be able to see all of the contents of the document by using the emailed hypertext link; and
 
(iii)    the document can be downloaded free of charge (excluding any normal fees payable to the recipient's internet service provider); and
 
(iv)    the hypertext link is accompanied by a prominent statement to the effect that the recipient is advised to access the document and download it; or
 
(e)     when it would be delivered in the ordinary course of post, if it is posted as a letter prepaid from the responsible entity to an address of the person or their eligible agent that the responsible entity reasonably believes is the address of the person or eligible agent; or
(f)      a copy of the document is given in accordance with any of paragraphs (a) to (e) and the giver takes reasonable steps to ensure that the document received by the person is complete and unaltered.
 
(16)   For the purposes of subsection (15):
 
(a)     an email is sent when the email would be taken to be dispatched under section 14 of the Electronic Transactions Act 1999 if it applied to that subsection; and
 
(b)     a document is taken to be a copy of another document regardless of:
 
(i)      immaterial differences in the sequence in which information is presented; and
 
(ii)     prompts and links if they are not likely to:
 
(A)    cause a reasonable person to confuse the contents of the document with another document; or
 
(B)    reduce the likelihood of a reasonable person reading any part of the document; and
 
(iii)    the absence from (or simplification in) the document of graphics of a promotional or decorative nature; and
 
(iv)    the inclusion in the document of codes or features to control the display of the document which do not otherwise alter the sense or content of the document.
 
(17)   The responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme must ensure that it has and maintains the policies referred to in paragraph (2)(a).
 
(18)   If a member notifies the responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme that it has a complaint in relation to an accessible investment, the responsible entity must take reasonable steps to facilitate resolution of the dispute between the member and the issuer of the accessible investment, including informing the member whether the issuer has an internal dispute resolution system that is available to the member.
 
(19)   In this section:
 
accessible financial products means financial products that may be held through an IDPS-like scheme.
 
accessible investments means assets that may be held through an IDPS-like scheme, including accessible securities and accessible financial products.
 
accessible securities means securities that may be held through an IDPS-like scheme.
annual investor statement has the meaning given by paragraph (13)(a).
 
client, in relation to a custodial arrangement, has the same meaning as in subsection 1012IA(1).
 
custodial arrangement has the same meaning as in subsection 1012IA(1).
 
custodian means a person that holds property of an IDPS-like scheme and who may also be the responsible entity of the scheme.
 
defective in relation to:
 
(a)     a Product Disclosure Statement has the same meaning as in section 1021B; and
 
(b)     a disclosure document means a disclosure document in relation to which a person offering securities under the disclosure document must deal under subsection 724(2) with any applications for securities made under the disclosure document that have not resulted in an issue or transfer of the securities.
 
disclosure document means a prospectus, a profile statement or an offer information statement a copy of which is lodged with ASIC, or a document required by an instrument under section 741 setting out information about an offer of accessible securities.
 
distribution reinvestment plan means a written arrangement between the responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme and a member to the effect that the member instructs the responsible entity to:
 
(a)     reinvest distributions from specified accessible investments held through the scheme by the member in some or all of the accessible investments held through the scheme by the member; and
 
(b)     carry out the reinvestment of distributions referred to in paragraph (a) according to an agreed method,
 
where before entering into the arrangement, the member has been given a Product Disclosure Statement for the scheme containing a statement to the effect that the member may not have:
 
(c)     the current Product Disclosure Statement for an accessible financial product held through the scheme; or
 
(d)     the current disclosure document for accessible securities held through the scheme;
 
at the time an additional holding of the accessible financial product or accessible securities is acquired under the distribution reinvestment plan.
 
eligible agent, in relation to a person who is a member of an IDPS-like scheme, means an agent of the person, other than the responsible entity of the scheme or an associate of the responsible entity, who is authorised under an eligible agreement.
 
eligible agreement, in relation to an eligible agent, means a written agreement between the person and the agent which authorises the agent to receive a document on the person’s behalf in relation to the IDPS-like scheme.
 
 financial assets has the same meaning as that term has in paragraph 11 of Accounting Standard AASB 132 Financial Instruments: Presentation as in force on 28 June 2013 and as amended from time to time by a disallowable legislative instrument within the meaning of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.
 
IDPS has the same meaning as in ASIC Class Order [CO 13/763].
 
IDPS-like scheme means a registered managed investment scheme which has a constitution that has provisions to the effect that:
 
(a)     a member may give a direction that an amount of money corresponding to part or all of the amount invested by the member in the scheme be invested in specified accessible investments; and
 
(b)     the distributions of capital and income from the scheme to the member in relation to their interests in the scheme will be determined by reference to amounts received by the responsible entity or a custodian in relation to the accessible investments acquired under that direction.
 
internal controls and other procedures of a responsible entity include any alternative controls and procedures employed by the responsible entity to address deficiencies in the design or operation of established internal controls or other procedures.
 
missing document has the same meaning as in the definition of regular savings plan.
 
NCS has the same meaning as in ASIC Class Order [CO 02/295] as in force on 28 June 2013 and as amended from time to time by a disallowable legislative instrument within the meaning of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.
 
quarter means a period of three months ending on a quarter day.
 
quarter’s end means, in relation to electronic access to information under paragraph (9)(b):

(a)     the end of the day that is a quarter day; or

(b)     where such access is not given at the time mentioned in paragraph (a), the time at which access is first given after that time.
 
quarterly report means a report for a quarter under subsection (11).
 
regular savings acquisition has the same meaning as in the definition of regular savings plan.
 
regular savings plan means a written arrangement between the responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme and a member to the effect that:
 
(a)     the member instructs the responsible entity to acquire specified accessible financial products by way of periodic payments of a specified amount and at specified intervals (each such acquisition is a regular savings acquisition); and
 
(b)     the member acknowledges that under the regular savings plan a regular savings acquisition of an accessible financial product may occur without the member having been given a current Product Disclosure Statement  (missing document) in relation to the accessible financial product; and
 
(c)     the responsible entity agrees to give access to the member to what it reasonably believes is the most current missing document relating to an accessible financial product (unless this would not be required if the acquisition were not under a regular savings plan) that may be acquired under the regular savings plan as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event by the fifth business day after the responsible entity receives what the responsible entity reasonably believes is the most current missing document; and
 
(d)     the member acknowledges that regular savings acquisitions will continue to be made under the regular savings plan until the member instructs the responsible entity otherwise or the arrangement constituting the regular savings plan is terminated; and
 
where the member:
(e)     before entering into the arrangement has been given the Product Disclosure Statement of the IDPS-like scheme containing a statement; and
 
(f)      has been given advice quarterly in writing;
 
to the effect that the member may not have the current Product Disclosure Statement for an accessible financial product at the time a regular savings acquisition of the accessible financial product is made.
 
(20)   For the purposes of this section:
 
(a)     the circumstances in which the responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme or a custodian acquires an accessible investment under a direction of a member include:
 
(i)      an allocation of entitlements relating to an accessible investment to the interest of the member; and
(ii)     an increased investment in an accessible financial product in respect of which a member’s interest has been allocated entitlements;
 
under a direction of the member; and
 
(b)     a financial product is of the same kind as another financial product if the products would be of the same kind for the purposes of section 1012D.”.
 
7.       Division 5 of Part 7.9 applies in relation to the responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme as if the provisions of that Division were modified or varied as follows:
 
(a)     in subsection 1019A(1), after “(2),”, omit “this Division” and substitute “sections 1019A and 1019B”; and
 
(b)     after subparagraph 1019A(1)(a)(v) omit “and”, and substitute:
 

but not including:
 
(vi)    an interest in an IDPS-like scheme (as defined in subsection 1013DAB(19)); or
 
(vii)   a managed investment product held by a client because the legal ownership of a financial product is held by a person for the client as part of the IDPS-like scheme.”; and
 
(c)     after section 1019B insert:
 
“1019BA Cooling-off for IDPS-like schemes
 
(1)   The responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme must:
 
(a)     take all reasonable steps to comply with a request made during the cooling-off period by a member of the scheme to:
 
(i)      realise an accessible financial product that has been acquired under a direction given by the member in relation to the IDPS interest acquired by the member; or
 
(ii)     return any moneys held for the member in relation to the IDPS interest acquired;
 
unless the responsible entity reasonably considers that it would not be fair to all members; and
 
(b)     pay to the member upon a realisation of an accessible financial product under subparagraph (1)(a)(i) the amount paid by the member in connection with the acquisition, including any fees payable to the responsible entity in connection with the acquisition but excluding any moneys returned under subparagraph (1)(a)(ii) (the member’s investment amount) less:
 
(i)      the amount, if any, by which the member’s investment amount (net of any fees payable to the responsible entity) exceeds the amount received upon a realisation of the accessible financial product under subparagraph (1)(a)(i) (net of any fees payable to the responsible entity); and
 
(ii)     any amount that would be permitted by Regulation 7.9.67(7) to be deducted if it applied to the realisation of the accessible financial product under subsection (1) as being an exercise by the member of a right to return the accessible financial product; and
 
(c)     inform members of the requirements imposed on the responsible entity under paragraph (a) and (b) in any confirmation of a transaction involving an interest in the scheme and in any Product Disclosure Statement of the scheme.

(2)     In this section:
 
accessible financial product has the same meaning as in subsection 1013DAB(19); and
 
cooling-off period means the period of 14 days starting on the earlier of:
 
(a)     the time when the confirmation requirement (if applicable) for the IDPS interest is complied with; or

(b)     the end of the 5th day after the day on which the IDPS interest was issued or sold to the member; and
 
IDPS interest means an interest in an IDPS-like scheme; and
 
IDPS-like scheme has the same meaning as in subsection 1013DAB(19).”.
 
Declaration – IDPS-like scheme dispute resolution
 
8.       Part 7.6 of the Act (other than Divisions 4 and 8) applies in relation to a responsible entity of an IDPS as if that Part were varied or modified by, after section 912ADA (as notionally inserted by ASIC Class Order [CO 13/763]), inserting:
 
“912ADB         IDPS-like scheme dispute resolution
 
(1)     If a financial services licensee who issues accessible financial products through an IDPS-like scheme provides a notice in writing to the responsible entity of the scheme that states that it will comply with the internal dispute resolution requirements of this section, the licensee must have and maintain an internal dispute resolution procedure that:
 
(a)     covers complaints against the licensee by each person who:
 
(i)      holds through the scheme an accessible financial product issued by the licensee; and
 
(ii)     if the licensee had issued the accessible financial product to the person directly, would have been issued the product as a retail client;
where the complaints are made in connection with the accessible financial product; and
 
(b)     complies with the following standards and requirements:
 
(i)      the procedure covers a “complaint” as defined in AS ISO 10002—2006; 
(ii)     the “Guiding principles” in section 4 of AS ISO 10002—2006;  
 
(iii)    the following sections of AS ISO 10002—2006:
(A)    section 5.1—Commitment;
(B)    section 6.4—Resources;
(C)    section 8.1—Collection of Information;
(D)    section 8.2—Analysis and evaluation of complaints; and
 
(iv)    the procedure must include adequate measures for informing complainants about the availability and accessibility of an external dispute resolution scheme (if any) of which the relevant person is a member.
 
Note: A notice under subsection 912ADB(1) cannot be revoked.
 
(2)     In this section, AS ISO 10002—2006 means Australian Standard AS ISO 10002—2006 known as Customer Satisfaction—Guidelines for complaints handling in organizations published by Standards Australia as in force as at 5 April 2006.”.
 
9.       Chapter 5C of the Act applies in relation to a responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme as if the provisions of that Chapter were varied or modified as follows:
 
(a)     omit subsection 601GA(4) and substitute:
 
“(4)   If members are to have a right to withdraw from the scheme, the scheme’s constitution must:
 
(a)     specify the right; and
 
(b)     set out how a withdrawal request will be dealt with where that request relates to an investment which is subject to a minimum holding requirement or the realisation of which might otherwise adversely affect members other than the requesting member.
 
The right to withdraw, and any provisions in the constitution setting out procedures for making and dealing with withdrawal requests, must be fair to all members.”; and
 
(b)     omit section 601KA and substitute:
 
“The responsible entity must not allow a member to withdraw from the scheme otherwise than in accordance with the scheme’s constitution or the conditions of an exemption under this Act.”; and
 
(c)     omit sections 601KB to 601KE.
 
Declaration - offers of securities through an IDPS-like scheme
 
10.     Chapter 6D of the Act applies in relation to the responsible entity of an IDPS-like scheme as if the provisions of that Chapter were modified or varied by, before section 705 inserting:
 
“704B    Offers through an IDPS-like scheme
 
(1)     A person who makes an offer of accessible securities (as defined in subsection 1013DAB(19)) or interests in accessible securities through an IDPS-like scheme (as defined in subsection 1013DAB(19)) that needs disclosure under this Part:
 
(a)     must promptly notify the responsible entity of the scheme if:
 
(i)      a supplementary or replacement document has been lodged in relation to the disclosure document; or
 
(ii)     the person is prohibited under Division 1 of Part 6D.3 from making offers of securities under the disclosure document; or
 
(iii)    the disclosure document is withdrawn before the expiry date specified in the disclosure document; and
 
(b)     must not issue any accessible securities through the scheme if the person is aware of any non-compliance by the responsible entity of the scheme with the requirements of 1013DAB.
 
(2)     Nothing in this Part or Part 6D.3 requires a disclosure document for offers of accessible securities or interests in accessible securities through an IDPS-like scheme to include information about the scheme or the rights attached to the accessible securities where they differ from the rights that a person would have if they acquired the accessible securities directly.
 
(3)     Subsection (2) does not apply in relation to an offer of accessible securities or interests in accessible securities if ASIC has given a notice in writing to the person making the offer stating that subsection (2) does not apply in relation to offers of securities by the person and has not withdrawn that notice.”.
 
Order
 
11.     An IDPS-like scheme does not have to comply with subparagraphs 314(1)(a)(i) and 314(1)(a)(iii) on condition that the responsible entity must and for as long as the responsible entity:
 
(a)     sends to each member on request a copy of the financial report for the IDPS-like scheme and the auditor's report on that financial report as would be required to be sent in accordance with subparagraphs 314(1)(a)(i) and 314(1)(a)(iii) of the Act; and
 
(b)     notifies members of their right to request the information referred to in paragraph (a) in the annual report given to members in accordance with paragraph 1013DAB(13)(a) (as notionally inserted by this instrument).
 
Revocation, consequential and transitional
 
12.     ASIC Class Order [CO 02/296] is revoked.
 
13.         ASIC Class Order [CO 02/295] is varied by, in paragraph 1, omitting “[CO 02/296]” in the definition of “IDPS-like scheme” and substituting “[CO 13/762]”.
14.         ASIC Class Order [CO 09/425] is varied by, in subparagraph 14(a), omitting “[CO 02/296]” in the definition of IDPS-like scheme and substituting “[CO 13/762]”.
15.         Paragraphs 4 to 10 do not apply in relation to a responsible entity of an existing IDPS-like scheme or any other person involved in the preparation of a Product Disclosure Statement for an interest in the scheme until the earlier of (the application date):
 
(a)     the responsible entity both lodging with ASIC and publishing on its website a notice that it will rely on this instrument in relation to the IDPS-like scheme; and
 
Note: A notice under subparagraph 15(a) cannot be revoked.

(b)     1 July 2014.
 
16.     Paragraph 11 does not apply to an existing IDPS-like scheme until the application date.
 
17.     ASIC Class Order [CO 02/296] as in force immediately before the commencement of this instrument continues to apply, despite paragraph 12:
 
(a)     in relation to the responsible entity for an existing IDPS-like scheme and to any other person involved in the preparation of a Product Disclosure Statement for an interest in the scheme; and
 
(b)     to the existing IDPS-like scheme;
 
in relation to the period ending immediately before the application date.
 
18.     Until 1 July 2014, Part 7.9 of the Act applies to a responsible entity covered by subparagraph 15(a) in relation to an IDPS-like scheme as if the provisions of that Part were modified or varied by inserting after section 1013DAB (as notionally inserted by this instrument):
 
“1013DAC Notice of reliance
 
A responsible entity that has elected to rely on ASIC Class Order [CO 13/762] in relation to an IDPS-like scheme (as defined in subsection 1013DAB(19)) must publish and maintain on its website a notice that it will rely on that instrument.”.
 
Interpretation
 
19.     In this instrument:
 
accessible financial products  means financial products that may be held through an IDPS-like scheme.
 
accessible investments means assets that may be held through an IDPS-like scheme, including accessible securities and accessible financial products.
 
accessible securities means securities that may be held through an IDPS-like scheme.
 
application date, in relation to an existing IDPS-like scheme, has the meaning given by paragraph 15.
 
custodian means a person that holds property of an IDPS-like scheme and who may also be the responsible entity of the scheme.
 
existing IDPS-like scheme means an IDPS-like scheme that was an IDPS-like scheme immediately before the commencement of this instrument.
 
IDPS-like scheme means a registered managed investment scheme which has a constitution that has provisions to the effect that:
 
(a)     a member may give a direction that an amount of money corresponding to part or all of the amount invested by the member in the scheme be invested in specified accessible investments; and
 
(b)     the distributions of capital and income from the scheme to the member in relation to their interests in the scheme will be determined by reference to amounts received by the responsible entity or a custodian in relation to the accessible investments acquired under that direction.
issuer means a person who is capable of issuing, transferring or making available accessible securities.
 
securities has the meaning given by section 92(4).
 
 
 
 
Dated this 28th day of June 2013
 
 
 
 
Signed by Stephen Yen PSM
as a delegate of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission