Corporations Regulations 2001

A Product Disclosure Statement for a simple managed investment scheme to which Subdivision 4.2C of Division 4 of Part 7.9 of the Corporations Regulations 2001 applies must:

include the statements and information required by regulations made for this paragraph; and

be in the form required by regulations made for this paragraph; and

relate only to 1 simple managed investment scheme.

If a law other than this Act or regulations under this Act requires the responsible person for the Product Disclosure Statement:

to give, disclose or provide a matter; or

to include a matter in the Statement;

In addition to subsection (1A), a Product Disclosure Statement may make provision for a matter contained in writing by applying, adopting or incorporating the matter as in force at a particular time or as in force from time to time.

If a Product Disclosure Statement applies, adopts or incorporates a matter contained in writing:

the applied, adopted or incorporated matter forms part of the Statement; and

the responsible person for the Statement is not required to give the document which provides for the matter to a person (as part of giving the Statement or later) if that person has not asked for the document; and

the responsible person for the Statement must give the document which provides for the matter to a person if that person asks for the document.

The regulations may prescribe requirements for applying, adopting, or incorporating a matter contained in writing in a Product Disclosure Statement.

A Product Disclosure Statement may refer to information, other than information to which subsection (1A) or (1B) applies, that is set out in another document; and

If the Product Disclosure Statement refers to other information as permitted by subsection (1E), that information does not form part of the Statement.

Although the information mentioned in subsection (1F) would not form part of the Product Disclosure Statement, it would be subject to requirements imposed by the Act or these Regulations such as the prohibition on making misleading or deceptive statements.

one of the documents is a document that complies with the requirements for a Product Disclosure Statement under this Act and the Regulations; and

the other document or documents contain a matter in writing that is applied, adopted or incorporated by the document mentioned in subparagraph (a).