Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Corporations Act 2001 — Paragraph 926A(2)(c) — Declaration   Enabling legislation   1.         The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) makes this instrument under paragraph 926A(2)(c) of the Corporations Act 2001 (the Act).   Title   2.         This instrument is ASIC Class Order [CO 05/1070].  
Commencement
  3.         This instrument commences on the date it is registered under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.   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, s 4 (definition of register).  The FRLI may be accessed at http://www.frli.gov.au/.   Situations in which this instrument applies   4.         This instrument applies where all of the following are satisfied: (a)        a person (the distributor) provides a financial service on behalf of a financial services licensee (the licensee); (b)       the distributor is: (i)         a person (the principal distributor) who the licensee has given a written notice (which notice has not been revoked) authorising them to provide the financial service on behalf of the licensee; or (ii)        if the principal distributor is a body corporate—an individual who the principal distributor has, with the written consent of the licensee, given a written notice (which notice has not been revoked) authorising them to provide the financial service on behalf of the licensee; Note 1:   A principal distributor who is not a body corporate cannot, in that capacity, authorise another person to provide financial services on behalf of the licensee. Note 2:   The licensee may give written consent to the principal distributor to authorise individuals under paragraph 4(b)(ii) in respect of either a specified individual or a specified class of individuals (the membership of which might change from time to time). (c)        the distributor is not an authorised representative of the licensee; (d)        the financial service is dealing in either or both of the following: (i)         a general insurance product; (ii)        a bundled consumer credit insurance product; (e)        the licensee holds an Australian financial services licence covering the provision of the financial service; and (f)         the licensee has taken reasonable steps to ensure that, when the distributor provides the financial service to another person (the client) as a retail client: (i)         the distributor specifically draws the client’s attention to the availability of a dispute resolution system of the licensee that covers complaints by the client in relation to the financial service and how that system may be accessed; and (ii)        the client is given information in writing about: (A)       who the distributor acts for when providing the financial service; and (B)       any remuneration (including commission) or other benefits that the distributor, or an associate of the distributor, may receive in respect of, or that is attributable to, the provision of the financial service.  
Modification of authorisation requirements for insurance distributors
  5.         Part 7.6 (other than Divisions 4 and 8) of the Act applies in relation to the licensee and the distributor as if provisions of that Part were modified or varied as follows: (a)        in section 910A: (i)        before the definition of representative, add: “insurance distributor means, in relation to a financial services licensee, a person who is authorised to provide financial services in relation to risk insurance products on behalf of the licensee.”; and (ii)        in the definition of representative, add after subparagraph (a)(iii): “(iiia)    an insurance distributor of the licensee; or”; and (b)       after paragraph 911B(1)(a), add: “(ab)    these conditions are satisfied: (i)         the principal holds an Australian financial services licence covering the provision of the service; and (ii)        the provider is an insurance distributor of the principal;”.   Interpretation   6.         In this instrument: authorised representative has the meaning given by section 761A of the Act. bundled consumer credit insurance product means a facility that: (a)        is a consumer credit insurance product as defined by regulation 7.1.15 of the Corporations Regulations 2001; and (b)       constitutes both: (i)        a general insurance product; and (ii)        a life risk insurance product as defined by section 761A of the Act. general insurance product has the meaning given by section 761A of the Act. retail client has the meaning given by section 761G of the Act.     Dated this 26th day of October 2005         Signed by Brendan Byrne
as a delegate of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission