Section 51ABD — Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)

(1) The acquisitions provisions do not apply to an acquisition that is, or is part of, a restructure or reorganisation of a group of persons who are related:

(a) in the ways referred to in section 4A (related bodies corporate); or

(b) by means of trust or partnership.

(2) Paragraph (1)(a) applies as if:

(a) the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory were a body corporate; and

(b) each authority of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory were a subsidiary of the Commonwealth, the State or the Territory.

(3) However, for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), subsection (2) does not affect when an authority of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory is related to another authority of the Commonwealth, the State or the Territory.

Related sections

• s 51ABA — Simplified outline of this Part
• s 51ABB — Acquisitions to which acquisitions provisions apply
• s 51ABC — Acquisition of units in unit trusts and interests in managed investment schemes
• s 51ABE — When acquisitions are stayed
• s 51ABF — When notifications have been finally considered
• s 51ABG — When notifications become stale

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