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FOREIGN ACQUISITIONS AND TAKEOVERS ACT 1975 - SECT 130ZO

Person becomes a foreign person while holding interest in an entity or business

  (1)   This section applies to a person who becomes a foreign person.

  (2)   The person must give a register notice to the Registrar if:

  (a)   on the day the person becomes a foreign person, the person holds:

  (i)   a direct interest in an Australian entity that is an agribusiness; or

  (ii)   a direct interest in an Australian business that is an agribusiness; or

  (iii)   a substantial interest in an Australian entity; and

  (b)   had the person taken an action consisting of acquiring the interest on the day the person became a foreign person, the action would have been a notifiable action under either of the following:

  (i)   paragraph   47(2)(a) (acquiring direct interest in Australian entity or business that is an agribusiness);

  (ii)   paragraph   47(2)(b) (acquiring substantial interest in Australian entity).

  (3)   Subsections   130ZJ(2) and (3) apply in relation to the register notice as if the person had taken the action mentioned in paragraph   (2)(b) of this section in the same way as those subsections apply to a notice and an action of that kind under section   130ZJ.

  (4)   The registrable event day for a register notice under this section is the day on which the person becomes a foreign person.

Application--Register commencement day

  (5)   This section applies to a person who becomes a foreign person on or after the Register commencement day, regardless of when the person started to hold the interest referred to in paragraph   (2)(a).



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