Section 1013F — Corporations Act 2001: General limitations on extent to which information is required to be included
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(1) Despite anything in section 1013D or 1013E, information, or a statement containing information, is not required to be included in a Product Disclosure Statement if it would not be reasonable for a person considering, as a retail client, whether to acquire the product to expect to find the information in the Statement. (2) In considering whether it would not be reasonable for a person considering, as a retail client, whether to acquire the product to expect to find particular information in the Statement, the matters that may be taken into account include, but are not limited to: (a) the nature of the product (including its risk profile); and (b) the extent to which the product is well understood by the kinds of person who commonly acquire products of that kind as retail clients; and (c) the kinds of things such persons may reasonably be expected to know; and (d) if the product is an ED security that is not a continuously quoted security—the effect of the following provisions: (i) Chapter 2M as it applies to disclosing entities; (ii) sections 674, 674A, 675 and 675A; and (e) the way in which the product is promoted, sold or distributed; and (f) any other matters specified in the regulations.
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