Report

Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding) Bill 2016 [Provisions]

13 February 2017

© Commonwealth of Australia 2017
ISBN 978-1-76010-511-2

View the report as a single document - (PDF 225KB)

View the report as separate downloadable parts:

Senate Economics Legislation Committee (PDF 22KB)
Chapter 1 - Introduction and overview of the bill (PDF 53KB)

Referral and conduct of the inquiry
Terminology
Previous committee inquiry
Overview of the bill
Scrutiny of bills
Regulation impact statement
Human rights
Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 - Main issues (PDF 105KB)

Introduction
Eligibility requirements
Investor protection and the cooling off period.
Access to crowd-sourced equity funding for proprietary companies
Review of legislation
Dissenting Report by Labor Senators (PDF 23KB)

Background and overview
Key contributions from the written submission process
Specific Measures
Conclusion
Appendix 1 - Submissions received (PDF 7KB)

Committee Secretariat contact:

Senate Standing Committees on Economics
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Phone: +61 2 6277 3540
economics.sen@aph.gov.au

About this inquiry

On 1 December 2016, the Senate referred the provisions of the Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding) Bill 2016 to the Economics Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 13 February 2017.

Submissions closed on 9 January 2017.