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CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 - SECT 1013F

General limitations on extent to which information is required to be included

  (1)   Despite anything in section   1013D or 1013E, information, or a statement containing information, is not required to be included in a Product Disclosure Statement if it would not be reasonable for a person considering, as a retail client, whether to acquire the product to expect to find the information in the Statement.

  (2)   In considering whether it would not be reasonable for a person considering, as a retail client, whether to acquire the product to expect to find particular information in the Statement, the matters that may be taken into account include, but are not limited to:

  (a)   the nature of the product (including its risk profile); and

  (b)   the extent to which the product is well understood by the kinds of person who commonly acquire products of that kind as retail clients; and

  (c)   the kinds of things such persons may reasonably be expected to know; and

  (d)   if the product is an ED security that is not a continuously quoted security--the effect of the following provisions:

  (i)   Chapter   2M as it applies to disclosing entities;

  (ii)   sections   674, 674A, 675 and 675A; and

  (e)   the way in which the product is promoted, sold or distributed; and

  (f)   any other matters specified in the regulations.



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