Corporations (Review Fees) Amendment (Technical Amendments) Act 2026

No. 6, 2026

An Act to amend the Corporations (Review Fees) Act 2003, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title 1

2 Commencement 2

3 Schedules 2

Schedule 1—Amendments 3

Corporations (Review Fees) Act 2003 3

Corporations (Review Fees) Amendment (Technical Amendments) Act 2026

No. 6, 2026

An Act to amend the Corporations (Review Fees) Act 2003, and for related purposes

[Assented to 13 March 2026]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act is the Corporations (Review Fees) Amendment (Technical Amendments) Act 2026.

2 Commencement 1

Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information	Commencement information	Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this Act	The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.	14 March 2026

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Amendments

Corporations (Review Fees) Act 2003

1 After section 7

Insert:

7A Validation of certain review fees 1

This section applies in relation to the amount of a review fee in the financial year starting on 1 July 2011, or a later financial year starting on or before 1 July 2024, if:

the review fee was prescribed because of item 103 of Part 1, item 101, 102, 103 or 104 of Part 1A, or any item of Part 2, of Schedule 1 to the Review Fees Regulations, as in force at any time during the period:

starting at the commencement of the 2011 amending regulations; and

ending immediately before the commencement of the 2025 amending regulations; and

in relation to the financial year starting on 1 July 2024—the review fee is for a review date that occurred before the commencement of the 2025 amending regulations.

Note: The 2011 amending regulations commenced on 1 July 2011. The 2025 amending regulations commenced on 12 March 2025.

2011 amending regulations means the Corporations (Review Fees) Amendment Regulations 2011 (No. 1).

2025 amending regulations means the Corporations (Review Fees) Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2025.

financial year means a period of 12 months starting on 1 July.

Review Fees Regulations means the Corporations (Review Fees) Regulations 2003.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 9 October 2025

Senate on 5 February 2026]

(80/25)

The amount of the review fee is taken to be, and always to have been, the amount it would have been if subregulation 4(6) (rather than subregulation 4(5)) of the Review Fees Regulations, as amended by the 2011 amending regulations, had applied to review fees in the financial year starting on 1 July 2011.

In this section: