Breach Reporting Regulations
Treasury is seeking submissions on the draft regulation amendments and explanatory materials for changes to regulations that support the breach reporting rules in Schedule 11 of the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response) Act 2020. Schedule 11 to the Act implements the Government’s response to recommendations 1.6, 2.8 and 7.2 of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry by:
- clarifying and strengthening the breach reporting regime for financial services licensees in the Corporations Act;
- introducing a comparable breach reporting regime for credit licensees in the Credit Act; and
- requiring financial services licensees and credit licensees to report serious compliance concerns about financial advisers and mortgage brokers respectively.
These regulations amend the Corporations Regulations 2001, the National Consumer Credit Protection Regulations 2010, the Corporations (Fees) Regulations 2001 and the National Consumer Credit Protection (Fees) Regulations 2010 to:
- prescribe civil penalty provisions that are not taken to be significant (and therefore may not be reportable) under the relevant breach reporting regime if those provisions are contravened;
- ensure certain breach reporting offences and civil penalty provisions are subject to an infringement notice; and
- make minor and technical amendments, including updating references to the Corporations Act.
Responding
You can submit responses to this consultation up until 09 April 2021. Interested parties are invited to comment on this consultation.
While submissions may be lodged electronically or by post, electronic lodgement is preferred. For accessibility reasons, please submit responses sent via email in a Word or RTF format. An additional PDF version may also be submitted.
All information (including name and address details) contained in submissions will be made available to the public on the Treasury website unless you indicate that you would like all or part of your submission to remain in confidence. Automatically generated confidentiality statements in emails do not suffice for this purpose. Respondents who would like part of their submission to remain in confidence should provide this information marked as such in a separate attachment.
Legal requirements, such as those imposed by the Freedom of Information Act 1982, may affect the confidentiality of your submission.
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Source: The Commonwealth of Australia