Section 716 — Corporations Act 2001: Disclosure document date and consents

Date of disclosure document (1) A disclosure document must be dated. The date is the date on which it is lodged with ASIC. Date for 2-part simple corporate bonds prospectus (1A) Subsection (1) does not apply to a 2-part simple corporate bonds prospectus. (1B) For the purposes of this Act, the date of a 2-part simple corporate bonds prospectus for an offer of simple corporate bonds is taken to be the date on which the offer-specific prospectus for the offer is lodged with ASIC. Consent of person to whom statement attributed (2) A disclosure document may only include a statement by a person, or a statement said in the document to be based on a statement by a person, if: (a) the person has consented to the statement being included in the document in the form and context in which it is included; and (b) the document states that the person has given this consent; and (c) the person has not withdrawn this consent before the document is lodged with ASIC.