Corporations Act 2001
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The Corporations Act 2001 is Australia’s primary federal law governing companies, financial markets, and corporate regulation, including the powers and responsibilities of key regulators.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Corporations Act 2001 canonical | 13 |
| Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) | 3 |
| Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) | 1 |
| Corporations Act 2001 (Australia) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T618357 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Corporations Act 2001 Context triple: [Australian Securities and Investments Commission, legalBasis, Corporations Act 2001]
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A.
State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986
The State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 is a key New Zealand law that converted many government departments into commercially run state-owned enterprises while embedding protections for Māori interests consistent with the Treaty of Waitangi.
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B.
Incorporation doctrine
The Incorporation doctrine is a constitutional principle through which most protections in the U.S. Bill of Rights have been made enforceable against state governments via the Fourteenth Amendment.
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C.
Reserve Bank Act 1959
The Reserve Bank Act 1959 is an Australian federal law that created the Reserve Bank of Australia and defines its powers, functions, and responsibilities as the nation’s central bank.
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D.
Rules Enabling Act
The Rules Enabling Act is a U.S. federal statute that authorizes the Supreme Court to prescribe rules of procedure and evidence for federal courts, subject to congressional oversight.
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E.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is Australia’s corporate, markets, financial services and consumer credit regulator, responsible for enforcing laws to protect investors and maintain fair and transparent financial markets.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Corporations Act 2001 Target entity description: The Corporations Act 2001 is Australia’s primary federal law governing companies, financial markets, and corporate regulation, including the powers and responsibilities of key regulators.
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A.
State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986
The State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 is a key New Zealand law that converted many government departments into commercially run state-owned enterprises while embedding protections for Māori interests consistent with the Treaty of Waitangi.
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B.
Incorporation doctrine
The Incorporation doctrine is a constitutional principle through which most protections in the U.S. Bill of Rights have been made enforceable against state governments via the Fourteenth Amendment.
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C.
Reserve Bank Act 1959
The Reserve Bank Act 1959 is an Australian federal law that created the Reserve Bank of Australia and defines its powers, functions, and responsibilities as the nation’s central bank.
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D.
Rules Enabling Act
The Rules Enabling Act is a U.S. federal statute that authorizes the Supreme Court to prescribe rules of procedure and evidence for federal courts, subject to congressional oversight.
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E.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is Australia’s corporate, markets, financial services and consumer credit regulator, responsible for enforcing laws to protect investors and maintain fair and transparent financial markets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (72)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian federal statute
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corporate law ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
Australian government
ⓘ
surface form:
Australian Government
Australian Securities and Investments Commission ⓘ |
| amendedBy |
CLERP 9 reforms
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Corporate Law Economic Reform Program Act 1999 ⓘ Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding) Act 2017 ⓘ Corporations Amendment (Insolvency) Acts ⓘ Financial Services Reform Act 2001 ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Australian financial services licensees
ⓘ
listed companies ⓘ proprietary companies ⓘ public companies ⓘ registered schemes ⓘ |
| citation |
Cth
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No. 50, 2001 ⓘ |
| commencementDate | 2001-07-15 ⓘ |
| containsPart |
Chapter 1 – Introductory
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Chapter 2 – Registration and basic features of companies ⓘ Chapter 2D – Officers and employees ⓘ Chapter 2E – Related party transactions ⓘ Chapter 2F – Members’ rights and remedies ⓘ Chapter 2G – Meetings ⓘ Chapter 2H – Shares ⓘ Chapter 2J – Transactions affecting share capital ⓘ Chapter 5 – External administration ⓘ Chapter 5A – Deregistration, winding up and reinstatement ⓘ Chapter 6 – Takeovers ⓘ Chapter 6A – Compulsory acquisitions and buy-outs ⓘ Chapter 6B – Rights and liabilities in relation to takeovers ⓘ Chapter 6C – Information about ownership of listed companies ⓘ Chapter 7 – Financial services and markets ⓘ Chapter 8 – Futures industry ⓘ Chapter 9 – Miscellaneous ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| defines |
continuous disclosure obligations
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directors’ duties ⓘ financial reporting requirements ⓘ insider trading offences ⓘ market manipulation offences ⓘ |
| enactedBy | Parliament of Australia ⓘ |
| establishesPowersOf |
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
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Australian Securities and Investments Commission ⓘ Takeovers Panel ⓘ |
| governs |
companies incorporated in Australia
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company directors and officers ⓘ company reporting and disclosure ⓘ financial markets in Australia ⓘ financial services providers in Australia ⓘ insider trading ⓘ managed investment schemes ⓘ market misconduct ⓘ takeovers of listed companies ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Commonwealth of Australia ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalArea |
company law
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financial markets regulation ⓘ financial services regulation ⓘ insolvency law ⓘ securities regulation ⓘ takeovers law ⓘ |
| legalStatus | in force ⓘ |
| longTitle | An Act to make provision in relation to corporations and financial products and services, and for other purposes ⓘ |
| regulator |
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
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Australian Securities and Investments Commission ⓘ |
| replaced | Corporations Law ⓘ |
| requires |
audits of certain companies
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disclosure to investors in securities offerings ⓘ lodgment of financial reports with ASIC ⓘ |
| royalAssentDate | 2001-06-28 ⓘ |
| shortTitle | Corporations Act 2001 self-link ⓘ |
| yearOfEnactment | 2001 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Corporations Act 2001 Description of subject: The Corporations Act 2001 is Australia’s primary federal law governing companies, financial markets, and corporate regulation, including the powers and responsibilities of key regulators.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Corporations Act 2001 (Australia)
subject surface form:
Australian Financial System
subject surface form:
Australian Financial Services Licence
this entity surface form:
Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
subject surface form:
Australian Financial Services Licence
this entity surface form:
Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
this entity surface form:
Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
this entity surface form:
Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)