Corporations Regulations 2001

This regulation is made for the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of regulated person in subsection 994A(2) of the Act.

A person is prescribed in relation to a financial product if the person is exempt from the requirement in section 911A of the Act to hold an Australian financial services licence under either of the following provisions of the Act:

paragraph 926A(2)(a);

paragraph 926B(1)(a).

A product distributor within the meaning of section 910A of the Act (as modified by the ASIC Corporations (Basic Deposit and General Insurance Product Distribution) Instrument 2015/682) is prescribed in relation to the following financial products:

a basic deposit product;

a general insurance product;

a bundled consumer credit insurance product (within the meaning of that instrument).

Each of the following persons is prescribed in relation to a financial product that is a credit facility:

a person who is a licensee within the meaning of the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (the Credit Act);

a person who is a credit representative (within the meaning of the Credit Act) of such a licensee;

a person who is exempt from the operation of section 29 of the Credit Act (which is about the requirement to hold a credit licence) under any of the following provisions of that Act:

paragraph 109(1)(a);

paragraph 109(3)(a);

paragraph 110(1)(a);

a person who engages in a credit activity (within the meaning of section 6 of the Credit Act) on the person’s own behalf;

a person who contravenes section 29 of the Credit Act.

Each of the following persons is prescribed in relation to an extended operation financial product:

a person who issues the product;

a person who sells the product under a regulated sale.