Corporations Act. Australia
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Название: Corporations Act

Автор: Australia

Издательство: Проспект

Жанр: Юриспруденция, право

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isbn: 9785392086429

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СКАЧАТЬ Benefits required by law

      Subsection 200B(1) does not apply to a benefit given by a person if failure to give the benefit would constitute a contravention of a law in force in Australia or elsewhere (otherwise than because of breach of contract or breach of trust).

      200J Benefits to be held on trust and repaid

      (1) If an entity (the giver) contravenes section 200B by giving a benefit to a person (the recipient), then the amount of the benefit, or the money value of the benefit if it is not a payment:

      (a) is taken to be received by the recipient on trust for the giver; and

      (b) must be immediately repaid by the recipient to the giver.

      (1A) An amount repayable under subsection (1) to the giver:

      (a) is a debt due to the giver; and

      (b) may be recovered by the giver in a court of competent jurisdiction.

      (2) Subsection (1) applies to the whole of the amount of a payment or of the money value of the benefit even though giving the benefit would not have contravened section 200B if that amount or value of the benefit had been less.

      Part 2D.3 — Appointment, remuneration and cessation of appointment of directors

      Division 1 — Appointment of directors

      Subdivision A — General rules

      201A Minimum number of directors

      Proprietary companies

      (1) A proprietary company must have at least 1 director. That director must ordinarily reside in Australia.

      Public companies

      (2) A public company must have at least 3 directors (not counting alternate directors). At least 2 directors must ordinarily reside in Australia.

      201B Who can be a director

      (1) Only an individual who is at least 18 may be appointed as a director of a company.

      (2) A person who is disqualified from managing corporations under Part 2D.6 may only be appointed as director of a company if the appointment is made with permission granted by ASIC under section 206F or leave granted by the Court under section 206G.

      201D Consent to act as director

      (1) A company contravenes this subsection if a person does not give the company a signed consent to act as a director of the company before being appointed.

      (2) The company must keep the consent.

      (3) An offence based on subsection (1) or (2) is an offence of strict liability.

      Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.

      201E Special rules for the appointment of public company directors

      (1) A resolution passed at a general meeting of a public company appointing or confirming the appointment of 2 or more directors is void unless:

      (a) the meeting has resolved that the appointments or confirmations may be voted on together; and

      (b) no votes were cast against the resolution.

      (2) This section does not affect:

      (a) a resolution to appoint directors by an amendment to the company’s constitution (if any); or

      (b) a ballot or poll to elect 2 or more directors if the ballot or poll does not require members voting for 1 candidate to vote for another candidate.

      (3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), a ballot or poll does not require a member to vote for a candidate merely because the member is required to express a preference among individual candidates in order to cast a valid vote.

      201F Special rules for the appointment of directors for single director/single shareholder proprietary companies

      (1) The director of a proprietary company who is its only director and only shareholder may appoint another director by recording the appointment and signing the record.

      Appointment of new director on death, mental incapacity or bankruptcy

      (2) If a person who is the only director and the only shareholder of a proprietary company:

      (a) dies; or

      (b) cannot manage the company because of the person’s mental incapacity;

      and a personal representative or trustee is appointed to administer the person’s estate or property, the personal representative or trustee may appoint a person as the director of the company.

      (3) If:

      (a) the office of the director of a proprietary company is vacated under subsection 206B(3) or (4) because of the bankruptcy of the director; and

      (b) the person is the only director and the only shareholder of the company; and

      (c) a trustee in bankruptcy is appointed to the person’s property;

      the trustee may appoint a person as the director of the company.

      (4) A person who has a power of appointment under subsection (2) or (3) may appoint themselves as director.

      (5) A person appointed as a director of a company under subsection (2), (3) or (4) holds office as if they had been appointed in the usual way.

      201G Company may appoint a director (replaceable rule — see section 135)

      A company may appoint a person as a director by resolution passed in general meeting.

      201H Directors may appoint other directors (replaceable rule — see section 135)

      Appointment by other directors

      (1) The directors of a company may appoint a person as a director. A person can be appointed as a director in order to make up a quorum for a directors’ meeting even if the total number of directors of the company is not enough to make up that quorum.

      Proprietary company — confirmation by meeting within 2 months

      (2) If a person is appointed under this section as a director of a proprietary company, the company must confirm the appointment by resolution within 2 months after the appointment is made. If the appointment is not confirmed, the person ceases to be a director of the company at the end of those 2 months.

      Public company — confirmation by next AGM

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