Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) If a bidder becomes aware of:
(a) a misleading or deceptive statement in the bidder's statement; or
(b) an omission from the bidder's statement of information required by section 636; or
(c) a new circumstance that:
(i) has arisen since the bidder's statement was lodged; and
(ii) would have been required by section 636 to be included in the bidder's statement if it had arisen before the bidder's statement was lodged;
that is material from the point of view of a holder of bid class securities, the bidder must prepare a supplementary bidder's statement that remedies this defect.
Note 1: The bidder must then send and lodge the supplementary bidder's statement in accordance with section 647.
Note 2: Section 670A makes it an offence to give a bidder's statement after the bidder has become aware of a misleading or deceptive statement, omission or new circumstance that is material from the point of view of a holder of securities to whom the statement is given (unless the deficiency is corrected).
Note 3: The power to issue a supplementary bidder's statement is not limited to the situations dealt with in this section.
Note 4: This section applies to a bidder's statement that has already been previously supplemented.
(2) For an offence based on subsection (1), strict liability applies to the conduct, that the bidder must prepare a supplementary bidder's statement that remedies the defect.
Note: For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .